| On Being Nice: This Guidebook Explores the Key Themes of 'Being Nice' and How We Can Achieve This Often Overlooked Accolade. Contributor(s): The School of Life (Author), de Botton, Alain (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0995573646 ISBN-13: 9780995573642 Publisher: School of Life OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Personal Growth - Happiness - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Self-help | Communication & Social Skills |
| Dewey: 177.7 |
| Series: School of Life Library |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.3" (0.55 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An in-depth examination of our attitudes towards the overlooked quality of niceness. Most books that want to change us seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer: that is, less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer, less prickly... Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless and one that we neglect at our peril. This is a guidebook to the uncharted landscape of niceness, gently leading us around the key themes of this forgotten quality. We learn how to be charitable, how to forgive, how to be natural and how to reassure. We learn that niceness is compatible with strength and is no indicator of naivety. Niceness deserves to be rediscovered as one of the highest of all human achievements. |