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Happy Neurotic, The

How Angst and Fear Can Lead to Happiness and Success

By David Granirer

$14.95 US; $16.95 Can | ISBN: 1-894622-75-8 | 176 Pages | 6 | 01-Sep-2006 | Trade Paper

Each year North Americans spend millions of dollars on self-help books promising quick, easy methods for
conquering fear, becoming enlightened, and achieving unstoppable self-confidence. These books promise perfect health, beauty, and finances as long as we are able to learn to love ourselves and eliminate all negative emotions from our lives. But these books set us up to fail. The truth is that negative emotions are not only impossible to eradicate, but they are also keys to our success and happiness.

The Happy Neurotic is the first book that shows readers how they can be productive, well-adjusted and happy, while still remaining as neurotic as ever. The book reveals why programming oneself for success doesn't work; why readers shouldn't 'trust the universe;” how readers can be neurotic and still have relatively healthy relationships; how to use fear as an unlimited source of motivation; how to get positive results by thinking negatively; and how to use humor to transform character defects into strengths. With the message that negative emotions are crucial to success, this book is on the cutting edge of a backlash against the ubiquitous —and annoying—“one-size-fits-all” positive thinking remedies.

David Granirer

David Granirer has been featured on radio and television, and in newspapers and magazines across North America. He runs a program teaching stand-up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building confidence and fighting public stigma. Granirer lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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