AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT From the Sunday Times bestselling
author of The School of Life A healthy mind knows how to hope hanging on tenaciously to the
reasons to keep going. A healthy mind resists unfair comparisons not allowing others'
successes to throw it off course. A healthy mind avoids catastrophic imaginings
distinguishing worries of what could happen from what likely will . Just as there is no such
thing as a human being who will never become physically ill there is no human who will go
their whole life without becoming mentally unwell. But recognising ourselves when we're well
can do a lot to help us identify what can go awry. Written with his signature kindness and
empathy this book is Alain de Botton's practical guide to caring for our mental health - from
the acts of self-care in which we find respite to the help which psychotherapy can bring.
Mental illness is as common and as unshameful as its bodily counterpart. We should be no more
reluctant to seek help than we are if we develop a chest infection or sore knee - and we are no
less worthy of love and sympathy in those moments. This book is a reminder of that. Praise
for Alain de Botton: 'What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so
that we may live better lives' Irish Times 'Alain de Botton likes to take big complex
subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer 'One of our
most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture' John Gray New Statesman
