Notes on a Nervous Planet: Matt Haig

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The best non-fiction from the author and arguably my most favourite book of the new year, this one is life-changing. We need to carve out a place in time for ourselves, whether it is via books or meditation or appreciating the view out of a window. A place where we are not craving, or yearning, or working, or worrying, or over-thinking. A place where we might not even be hoping. A place where we are set to neutral. Where we can just breathe, just be, just bathe in the simple animal contentment of being, and not crave anything except what we already have: life itself.

Penelope beautifully summed up this book by saying “…his writing is like a cup of tea and a warm blanket making you feel that no matter how crazy the world can get everything is going to be ok.” I couldn’t agree more. And I really can’t say more. Just read it. A follow-up to Matt Haig’s internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life. I can't even take the time to rebut this seriously, because I have already taken more time to think about it than Matt Haig did. Haig’s non-fiction books include Reasons to Stay Alive (2015), a memoir about his experience of depression, and Notes on a Nervous Planet (2018), a book about mental health and modern life. Haig is a patron of the mental health charity Mind. He lives in York with his family. I know it helps establish our jobs and it benefits us but the book argues if it's worth the way it's affecting our lives in a more negative manner most of the time.This book has so much power to bring you the arguments that you probably thought you would never need to make you see the inevitable 'nothing' in all the craze we are involved in everyday. Doing ten minutes of (very) light yoga and slow breathing has worked well for me during anxiety patches where sleep has been problematic.

Haig is not claiming that life is measurably harder than ever for middle-class people in developed countries today – though occasionally he appears to come close to it. “Employment is becoming a dehumanising process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans,” he writes. “More dehumanising than going down the pit?” the reader might be tempted to respond. But what he does convincingly argue is that new technology has effects with which our animal brains cannot cope. He cites a former Google employee who is fearful of the tech giant’s effects on society; historical examples of mass hysteria; a marketing book that describes how to use “fear, uncertainty and doubt” to sell products; the Netflix boss who admits that the company’s main rival for its customers’ time is sleep. It begins to sound incredible that not everybody suffers from clinical anxiety. But by understanding these influences, Haig believes, we can begin to resist them. “It helps to know I am just a caveman in a world that has arrived faster than our minds and bodies expected.” still number four.) i’m sorry, you went to a homeless shelter where people who lost everything and fought addiction and managed to build something meaningful for themselves while still technically homeless, and used that as inspiration porn for your whole online detox argument?? privilege, meet class intersections. And I feel a lot of the techniques mentioned by Haig could really help in stabilizing your feeling of self as well as enable acceptance of self. It was almost therapeutic hearing Matt Haig saying that you are enough and how hard is to accept that you are not inadequate. Witty, honest, and engaging. Haig shows great skill in describing the ‘invisible cyclone’ of depression. . . A worthy successor to Reasons to Stay Alive.”— The Sunday Times Such an excess of choice is present in almost every aspect of modern life. From books to face creams to cereal brands, there is simply too much to choose from. There’s also way too much information. Through the internet, we can access a huge amount of data on everything, from recipes to personal opinions to historical events. This combination of excess and access leaves us with cluttered lives and cluttered brains. We are totally overstimulated, but constantly feel like we’re missing out. No wonder we often feel overwhelmed, anxious and depressed.Overall I liked the book, and will go around recommending this to colleagues, if only for the following wholesome, thought provoking one liners: An honest and human guide to coping with the modern world … Notes on a Nervous Planet is generous, sensible and timely. Reading it will probably be good for your mental health. Especially if you leave your smartphone in another room … Thought-provoking” Matt Haig takes on how modern day life, with abundant choices and psychologist involved in marketing of almost any product, effects our state of mind. The paradox of modern life is this: we have never been more connected, and we have never been more alone.”

As the minimalism advocate Fumio Sasaki puts it: "there's a happiness in having less." In the early days of my first experience of panic the only things I had taken away were booze and cigarettes and strong coffees. Now, though, years later, I realized that a more general overload was the problem. The book made me see how our lives are getting so chaotic day and night to the point of getting addicted to the screen which aggravates our ways of dealing with how we value ourselves with such unrealistic scales of likes, comments, following and such on social media.

Compelling and full of life’s big questions, How to Stop Timeis a book you will not be able to put down. Graeme Simsion Esse é um livro que recomendo que você leia com marcadores e caneta por perto. É aquele tipo de livro que conversar diretamente com o leitor, que traz reflexões, identificações e que dá conselhos (conselhos de acordo com a experiência de vida do próprio autor). Notes on a Nervous Planetis a fascinating look at the link between anxiety and the world we live in . . . [Haig is] one of our warmest, wittiest and wisest writers. Mail on Sunday