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# What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

**Brand:** james hollis
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- **What is this?** What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life by james hollis
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## Customer Reviews

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    Insightful yet challenging
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in Mexico on 7 October 2024*

The book is full of invaluable insight and amazing wisdom, its a shame that what mattered most to the author was to showoff his varied lexiconIt seems to me that a good author should be able to convey the deepest ideas with the most common words, If you enjoy having to consult the dictionary every 5 sentences or so, you'll really enjoy this book

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    The best kind of therapy
  

*by F***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2016*

James Hollis gets it. This book is aimed primarily at those who have suffered a mid-life crisis, but I read it as a troubled 22-year-old man, and it has undoubtedly had a positive effect on me. Ignore the self-help packaging of the cover: there is genuinely sound advice within. Hollis's generally negative view of existence is refreshing. The essential piece of advice he has is for us to recognise ourselves as meaning-creating creatures, and to see our symptoms as the product of failing to live up to what our souls demand of us. Of any choice that lies before us, we should ask, 'Does this choice make me larger or smaller?' When you begin to think in those terms, the fundamental choices of your life become much clearer (if not any less challenging!) Another important, if perhaps more obvious, piece of advice is to understand our lives as a constant process of failure - even if you become President, you are doomed to persistent failure! - and growth, and that at times of crisis we are asked to let one part of ourselves die in order that a better self can grow again.While I fundamentally agree with Hollis's worldview, I did not find his arguments to be prescriptive. The book's most striking anecdote is of the widow who, when told by Hollis that she would be the one to walk herself to the bathroom at night, "she got up and walked out of therapy forever". This book should be treated in the same spirit: as a guide that not only heals the wounds of your past, but shows you the way out of the door to a much richer life. After reading it, you may never need such help again.N.B. I came to this book on the recommendation of Oliver Burkeman's column in The Guardian, 'This Column Will Change Your Life', which I recommend just as highly.

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    excellent book
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in Canada on 21 April 2013*

I'd already read a library copy of this book. I bought it because I wanted to be able to read it slowly and to underline ideas that were relevant to me. It is definitely a keeper and is clearly written with ideas that are easy to understand and absorb.It illuminates the way forward as I continue my journey through my 'troisieme age' without my life partner. I have recommended it to several friends who are facing creating a new life for themselves for various reasons, either through retirement, death of a spouse, or other life changing circumstances. Others have arrived at a stage of life when they ask "what now" or "who am I really?" The book discusses to how to become your more authentic self.Having read other 'self-help' books, this stands out above the rest.

## Frequently Bought Together

- What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
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