The Path
- Author Professor Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh
- Narrator Michael Puett
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 7 April 2016
- Run Time 5 hours and 12 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre East Asian and Indian philosophy, History of ideas, Popular philosophy, Popular psychology, Self-help, personal development and practical advice.
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What to expect
Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Path by Professor Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, read by Professor Michael Puett.
Harvard's 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 decision-making to relationships, it challenges some of our deepest held assumptions, forcing us to "unlearn" many ideas that inform modern society. The way we think we're living our lives isn't 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 self-cultivation 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 Puett's course in Chinese philosophy has taken Harvard by storm. In The Path, he collaborates with journalist and author Christine Gross-Loh to make this timeless wisdom accessible to everyone for the very first time.
Critics Review
I couldn’t wait for this. Brilliant. This is where it’s at now . . . so fascinating
I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t benefit from reading The Path, from my youngest son to the future President of the USA. It’s accessible, realistic and far from being an ordinary self-help book. It gives immediate reassurance that this chaotic life can be mastered and it challenges you to strive for better
Very good. Based on Puett’s popular class at Harvard, it’s a great introduction to Eastern philosophy, which I always chide myself for not studying enough
The Path is very interesting . . . makes you want to read further
The Path is in part a pleasing debunking of fashionable self-help disciplines . . . I can testify that Puett is one of the nicest people – if not the nicest person – I have ever interviewed: attentive, generous and patient
I read The Path in one sitting and have been talking about it to everyone. It’s brilliant, mesmerizing, profound-and deeply contrarian. It stands conventional wisdom on its head and points the way to a life of genuine fulfillment and meaning.
This book is a revelation, a practical way through a fractured, distracting world. I thought I knew these philosophers – and I was wrong. Rigorous, concise, deeply informed, The Path retires our facile shorthand about ideas “from the East” and presents a powerful intellectual case to engage, to care, and to remember
This is a book that turns the notion of help – and the self, for that matter – on its head. Puett and Gross-Loh bring seemingly esoteric concepts down to Earth, where we can see them more clearly. The result is a philosophy book grounded in the here and now, and brimming with nuggets of insight. No fortune-cookie this, The Path serves up a buffet of meaty life lessons. I found myself reading and re-reading sections, letting the wisdom steep like a good cup of tea
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