Ebook Notes on a Nervous Planet Audible Audio Edition Matt Haig Penguin Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 5 hours and 14 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Penguin Audio Audible.com Release Date January 29, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07L9DFKGT

Notes on a Nervous Planet Audible Audio Edition Matt Haig Penguin Audio Books Reviews

• While this collection of short essays and random yet compelling commentaries on our culture is marketed towards "those who suffer from anxiety and depression" - that's ALL of us to one degree or another.
  
  Such "ailments" are at epidemic levels in our culture (no, not our country, or our society - but by our entire western world CULTURE.
  
  Why? Because inherently we KNOW that we're on an unsustainable path, and that science and technology will NOT save us from ourselves.
  
  But Haig's common sense essays remind us that WE'RE not crazy - that the world IS crazy - and our reaction to that (anxiety) is NORMAL - but that doesn't mean we have to be sucked down into insanity with it. Just that very notion that WE are in charge of how we think about ourselves, and the world, provides the calming sanity in which one can recognize that anxiety happens when we reject what we inherently know to be true.
  
  Just because we live in a crazy culture doesn't mean we need to accept it - or medicate ourselves be it with anti depressants, anti-anxiety meds - or of course the numerous other drugs including alcohol we use to dull our senses enough to accept a crazy world. We can recognize that our culture is crazy and make the choice stand outside of it even as we are forced to live within it - and work to create a new culture that embraces simplicity and sustainability. We can minimize those things like cellphones constant intrusion into our lives - and recognize that we have NO idea what we're doing to a generation of kids being brought up to view the world through their cellphone cameras at best.
  
  Haig touches on SO many topics - and while his chapters might be 1 or 2 pages long in a book that can be read in a weekend, it SHOULD foster a lifetime of contemplation of recognizing that we're not quite as evolved as we think we are as a species - but that we ARE experiencing an awakening that can restore sanity and sustainability into an anxiety cultivating culture.
  
  Bravo Matt Haig & thank you!
• A clear and uplifting mixture of wisdom, common sense and line of sight to clearer decision making about how to survive and thrive in our World of “more” and “never enough”. Answers to the questions so many of us are longing to find (yet are not clearly asking) by building and growing the gift of awareness
  
  Thank you Matt Haig!
• Down to earth ideas on dealing with relative's anxiety/depression.
• I ordered this Fall last year. It took quite a few weeks to get here because it wasn't available in the US yet - it shipped across the pond. I am so glad I didn't wait. Now US can get it quickly.
  I found that Matt has a way to help me feel not alone. He shares real stories and real advice that has helped him through this NERVOUS crazy world we have. The chapters are short and very readable. A little nourishment every day.
  I found I was taking photos of pages here and there and sending to my family and friends. He is so right on.
  I have lent it out several times already - it is actually loaned out right now.
  I plan to purchase copies and leave them in public places. I really think it is RELEVANT and HELPFUL to everyone.
  All I can say is THANK YOU Matt from the bottom of my heart.
• Sorry, couldn't think of a better headline. Borrowed this from the library, and it's so good, I needed to have my own copy. Ordering one today for me, and one for my mom. W ell researched, absorbing read. Chatty tone with a serious topic. I am a fan of Matt Haig's, but this is so far my absolute favorite of his. After being a college professor for 30 years, in the past 10 I'm seeing a marked difference in my students' mental health. Sometimes I love this book because it validates my observations, and other times I love it because it gives me information I need to help. I also need the information for me. Buy this. Seriously. It's a must read.