Reasons To Be Hopeful: What Remains Consoling, Inspiring and Beautiful

The School of Life assists individuals with handling challenges and finding personal fulfillment. This addition to the organization’s growing collection of self-help titles provides insights on how to remain hopeful even when living in a perpetually pessimistic world. It serves as a guidebook that helps readers resist the feelings of despair, forlornness, and helplessness one often feels in contemporary society. The authors acknowledge life’s bleak moments but employ art, music, poetry, and anecdotes of famous people such as Rothko, Nixon, and even Nietzsche to remind readers of reasons to feel optimistic. The first two sections address life’s difficulties but also put these hardships in a larger context and perspective. Readers should recognize the role that suffering and difficult times (often uncontrollable) will play in their lives, but they are presented with many reasons why hope is in reach. Final chapters suggest seeking small pleasures through escapism, food, friendship, or even pillows, to render the world less grim and find joy.