20 Japanese Lessons for a Noisy World

What does it mean to live well in an age of noise?
Not noise in the literal sense — though that too — but the internal kind: the constant scroll of thought, the chronic sense that you should be elsewhere, doing more, becoming better. The modern world has created conditions of relentless stimulation, and most of us are living inside them without ever asking whether we chose them.
20 Japanese Lessons for a Noisy World moves through four territories: the noise we've normalized, the myth of more, the strange beauty of imperfection, and the undervalued art of living gently. Drawing on Japanese concepts including ma (the meaningful pause), kintsugi (the gold in the break), wabi-sabi (the beauty of imperfect things), ikigai (the small daily reasons to be alive), and sixteen others, writer Sarah Malone explores what these ideas illuminate about the specific pressures of contemporary life.
This is not a self-help book. It doesn't tell you what to do. It sits beside you and looks at the same things you're looking at — and offers a quieter, more honest way of seeing them.
Thoughtful, grounded, and written with literary intelligence, this book is for readers who are tired of noise and ready to choose something different.

Pagine	100
Formato	[EU] Stampa bianco e nero - standard - 152x228 mm - Carta crema - Copertina opaca
Peso	142 gr.