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The Path audiobook
- By: Michael Puett
- Narrator: Michael Puett
- Category: Body, Mind & Spirit, Inspiration & Personal Growth
- Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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The Path Audiobook Summary
For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas–like the fallacy of the authentic self–can guide you on the path to a good life today.
Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish.
Astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities. Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them. A good life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments. Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back. Excellence comes from what we choose to do, not our natural abilities.
In other words, The Path “opens the mind” (Huffington Post) and upends everything we are told about how to lead a good life. Its most radical idea is that there is no path to follow in the first place–just a journey we create anew at every moment by seeing and doing things differently. “With its…spirited, convincing vision, revolutionary new insights can be gleaned from this book on how to approach life’s multifarious situations with both heart and head” (Kirkus Reviews).
A note from the publisher: To read relevant passages from the original works of Chinese philosophy, see our ebook Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi: Selected Passages, available wherever books are sold.
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The Path Audiobook Narrator
Michael Puett is the narrator of The Path audiobook that was written by Michael Puett
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
About the Author(s) of The Path
Michael Puett is the author of The Path
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The Path Full Details
| Narrator | Michael Puett |
| Length | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Author | Michael Puett |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | May 03, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781442378094 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Path is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Body, Mind & Spirit, Inspiration & Personal Growth
Additional info
The publisher of the The Path is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442378094.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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