{"product_id":"astonish-yourself-isbn-9780142003138","title":"Astonish Yourself","description":"Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this book have the potential to shake us awake from our preconceived certainties: our own identity, the stability of the outside world, the meanings of words. At once entertaining and startling, irreverent and wise, this book will provoke moments of awareness for readers in any situation and in all walks of life. Enter the space of your favorite painting. Watch someone sleeping. The world won't look the same again.Astonish Yourself!Introduction: Everyday adventures\u003cbr\u003e1. Call yourself\u003cbr\u003e2. Empty a word of its meaning\u003cbr\u003e3. Look in vain for \"I\"\u003cbr\u003e4. Make the world last twenty minutes\u003cbr\u003e5. See the stars below you\u003cbr\u003e6. See a landscape as a stretched canvas\u003cbr\u003e7. Lose something and not know what\u003cbr\u003e8. Recall where you were this morning\u003cbr\u003e9. Hurt yourself briefly\u003cbr\u003e10. Feel eternal\u003cbr\u003e11. Telephone at random\u003cbr\u003e12. Rediscover your room after a journey\u003cbr\u003e13. Drink while urinating\u003cbr\u003e14. Make a wall between your hands\u003cbr\u003e15. Walk in the dark\u003cbr\u003e16. Dream of all the places in the world\u003cbr\u003e17. Peel an apple in your head\u003cbr\u003e18. Visualize a pile of human organs\u003cbr\u003e19. Imagine yourself high up\u003cbr\u003e20. Imagine your imminent death\u003cbr\u003e21. Try to measure existence\u003cbr\u003e22. Count to a thousand\u003cbr\u003e23. Dread the arrival of the bus\u003cbr\u003e24. Run in a graveyard\u003cbr\u003e25. Play the fool\u003cbr\u003e26. Watch a woman at her window\u003cbr\u003e27. Invent lives for yourself\u003cbr\u003e28. Look at people from a moving car\u003cbr\u003e29. Follow the movement of ants\u003cbr\u003e30. Eat a nameless substance\u003cbr\u003e31. Watch dust in the sun\u003cbr\u003e32. Resist tiredness\u003cbr\u003e33. Overeat\u003cbr\u003e34. Play the animal\u003cbr\u003e35. Contemplate a dead bird\u003cbr\u003e36. Come across a childhood toy\u003cbr\u003e37. Wait while doing nothing\u003cbr\u003e38. Try not to think\u003cbr\u003e39. Go to the hairdresser\u003cbr\u003e40. Shower with your eyes closed\u003cbr\u003e41. Sleep on your front in the sun\u003cbr\u003e42. Go to the circus\u003cbr\u003e43. Try on clothes\u003cbr\u003e44. Calligraphize\u003cbr\u003e45. Light a fire in the hearth\u003cbr\u003e46. Be aware of yourself speaking\u003cbr\u003e47. Weep at the cinema\u003cbr\u003e48. Meet up with friends after several years\u003cbr\u003e49. Browse at the bookseller's\u003cbr\u003e50. Become music\u003cbr\u003e51. Pull out a hair\u003cbr\u003e52. Walk in an imaginary forest\u003cbr\u003e53. Demonstrate on your own\u003cbr\u003e54. Stay in the hammock\u003cbr\u003e55. Invent headlines\u003cbr\u003e56. Listen to short-wave radio\u003cbr\u003e57. Turn off the sound on the TV\u003cbr\u003e58. Redisover a childhood scene that seemed larger\u003cbr\u003e59. Get used to eating something you don't like\u003cbr\u003e60. Fast for a while\u003cbr\u003e61. Rant for ten minutes\u003cbr\u003e62. Drive through a forest\u003cbr\u003e63. Give without thinking about it\u003cbr\u003e64. Look for a blue food\u003cbr\u003e65. Become a saint or sinner\u003cbr\u003e66. Recover lost memories\u003cbr\u003e67. Watch someone sleeping\u003cbr\u003e68. Work on a holiday\u003cbr\u003e69. Consider humanity to be an error\u003cbr\u003e70. Inhabit the planet of small gestures\u003cbr\u003e71. Disconnect the phone\u003cbr\u003e72. Smile at a stranger\u003cbr\u003e73. Enter the space of a painting\u003cbr\u003e74. Leave the cinema in daytime\u003cbr\u003e75. Plunge into cold water\u003cbr\u003e76. Seek out immutable landscapes\u003cbr\u003e77. Listen to a recording of your voice\u003cbr\u003e78. Tell a stranger she is beautiful\u003cbr\u003e79. Believe in the existence of a smell\u003cbr\u003e80. Wake up without knowing where\u003cbr\u003e81. Descend an interminable staircase\u003cbr\u003e82. Swallow your emotion\u003cbr\u003e83. Fix the ephemeral\u003cbr\u003e84. Decorate a room\u003cbr\u003e85. Laugh at an idea\u003cbr\u003e86. Vanish at a pavement cafe\u003cbr\u003e87. Row on a lake in your room\u003cbr\u003e88. Prowl at night\u003cbr\u003e89. Become attached to an object\u003cbr\u003e90. Sing the praises of Santa Claus\u003cbr\u003e91. Play with a child\u003cbr\u003e92. Encounter pure chance\u003cbr\u003e93. Recite the telephone directory on your knees\u003cbr\u003e94. Think about what other people are doing\u003cbr\u003e95. Practice make-believe everywhere\u003cbr\u003e96. Kill people in your head\u003cbr\u003e97. Take the subway without going anywhere\u003cbr\u003e98. Remove your watch\u003cbr\u003e99. Put up with a chatterbox\u003cbr\u003e100. Clean up after the party\u003cbr\u003e101. Find the infinitesimal caress\u003cb\u003eRoger-Pol Droit\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Paris in 1949 and is a philosopher, a researcher at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, and a columnist for the French daily newspaper \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLa Compagnie des Philosophes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAstonish Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302425874661,"sku":"NP9780142003138","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142003138.jpg?v=1767721879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/astonish-yourself-isbn-9780142003138","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}