The Path: A New Way To Think About Everything

Harvards most popular professor explains how thinkers from Confucius to Zhuangzi can transform our lives The first book of its kind The Path draws on the work of the great but largely unknown Chinese philosophers to offer a profound guide to living well By explaining what these teachings reveal about subjects from decisionmaking to relationships it challenges some of our deepest held assumptions forcing us to unlearn many ideas that inform modern society The way we think were living our lives isnt the way we live them The authors show that we live well not by finding ourselves and slavishly following a grand plan as so much of Western thought would have us believe but rather through a path of selfcultivation and engagement with the world Believing in a true self only restricts what we can become and tiny changes from how we think about careers to how we talk with our family can start to have powerful effects that will open up constellations of new possibilities Professor Michael Puetts course in Chinese philosophy has taken Harvard by storm In The Path he collaborates with journalist and author Christine GrossLoh to make this timeless wisdom accessible to everyone for the very first time