The human struggle to overcome loneliness and separation is a lifelong challenge. This book is designed to help the reader better understand the nature of aloneness and the many ways it can be overcome. It combines human Philosophy, modern research, and the Psychology of Wellness. It is based on the eight givens that form the foundation of the series: The Examined Life. This is the second volume in the Series, the first one came out in August 2014, entitled: “Get it Right Next Time.”
This short volume on Overcoming Aloneness is the result of over thirty years of teaching experience, challenging students at the graduate level and undergraduate level to take a more wholistic view of their life and their education. The material has been successfully adapted to adult learners going through the transitional years of retirement, committed to lifelong learning. It is not a book of pathology, but rather a cry for optimism in the face of one of life’s greatest struggles, loneliness.
Modern life is filled with the confusing and comprehensive forces of reductionism. By reducing humans to only being of value because of what they do, our society has laid the groundwork for a dangerous consequence: Depression. When our doing does not match the expectations of our social network: family, School, Industry, we fall prey to the dangers of inadequacy. If we fail to do what is expected, we are therefore useless, meaningless, rejects from this politically correct society.
Readers of “Overcoming Aloneness” will quickly see through the fallacies of their upbringing, their education and their career life. Optimism and enthusiasm can make all the difference when facing the lifelong Given of Aloneness.
This short volume on Overcoming Aloneness is the result of over thirty years of teaching experience, challenging students at the graduate level and undergraduate level to take a more wholistic view of their life and their education. The material has been successfully adapted to adult learners going through the transitional years of retirement, committed to lifelong learning. It is not a book of pathology, but rather a cry for optimism in the face of one of life’s greatest struggles, loneliness.
Modern life is filled with the confusing and comprehensive forces of reductionism. By reducing humans to only being of value because of what they do, our society has laid the groundwork for a dangerous consequence: Depression. When our doing does not match the expectations of our social network: family, School, Industry, we fall prey to the dangers of inadequacy. If we fail to do what is expected, we are therefore useless, meaningless, rejects from this politically correct society.
Readers of “Overcoming Aloneness” will quickly see through the fallacies of their upbringing, their education and their career life. Optimism and enthusiasm can make all the difference when facing the lifelong Given of Aloneness.
