{"product_id":"lessons-for-living-what-only-adversity-can-teach-you","title":"Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You","description":"\u003cb\u003eProfound essays that cut through the messiness of life to help you get the good from the bad--by famed therapist Phil Stutz, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tools\u003c\/i\u003e and subject of the Netflix documentary \u003ci\u003eStutz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Is there another way? Can you live life with its conflicts, uncertainties, and disappointments and somehow feel good about yourself? You can. But it requires a completely new orientation.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are issues, and there are \u003ci\u003eissues\u003c\/i\u003e--love, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. How can we even begin to think clearly about dilemmas so universally confounding? Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions he's reached at your fingertips. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStutz has been writing these remarkably insightful short essays since the late 1990s, which are collected here for the first time, along with new insights specific to the unique challenges of today. Each one will change the way you think, but taken all together, this book becomes something far more than the sum of its parts: a compendium of human experience and knowledge that will reframe your worldview. There are hard truths here--the acknowledgment that life is full of pain and not a single one of us is special enough to escape it--but we need to understand and accept them in order to realize our full potential. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile \u003ci\u003eThe Tools\u003c\/i\u003e explains the general concepts and five specific practices that Stutz employs in treatment, \u003ci\u003eLessons for Living\u003c\/i\u003e addresses real-world circumstances, such as the needs of children, rising above envy, defeating your bad habits, the positive side of anger, and facing insecurities, offering a new way to think about life itself.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51937523204327,"sku":"9780593731086","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_fb3cb854-9d19-47d8-936e-e80d6f05531e.jpg?v=1775011092","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/lessons-for-living-what-only-adversity-can-teach-you","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}