For A Successful Life tackles that most contemporary of concerns: what are we all trying to attain, and what is our ambition costing us? Are we really in control of our ambition, or are we just responding to the demands of our conditioning? What is success, anyway? Should we measure it by money, by status, by conventional family values?

Perhaps we should start thinking about success in a different way. Perhaps the really successful people are those who simply enjoy life. Who don't do anything striking at all!

For A Successful Life blows the lid right off the competitive culture of ambition and drive - and lets us all look at life in a completely new light.

For A Successful Life is a funny, authoritative and provocative addition to the questioning canon created by writers like Malcolm Gladwell and Tom Hodgkinson.

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Details

• ISBN 9781905636310
• Published 21st August 2008
• Size: B format
• Pages: 256
• RRP: £7.99 

Rights information

• UK only