{"product_id":"life-worth-living-isbn-9780593489307","title":"Life Worth Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times'\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best books of 2023 — Health \u0026amp; Wellness\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLife Worth Living \u003c\/i\u003eis transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Kelly Corrigan, NYT bestselling author, host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and PBS’s Tell Me More\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the Yale class, a guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, and answering one of life’s most pressing questions: how are we to live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale faculty Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western culture, a crisis that, they propose, can be ameliorated by searching, in one’s own life, for the underlying truth. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLife Worth Living\u003c\/i\u003e, named after its authors’ highly sought-after undergraduate course, Volf, Croasmun, and McAnnally-Linz chart out this question, providing readers with jumping-off points, road maps, and habits of reflection for figuring out where their lives hold meaning and where things need to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from the major world religions and from impressively truthful and courageous secular figures, \u003ci\u003eLife Worth Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a guide to life’s most pressing question, the one asked of all of us: How are we to live?CONTENTS\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: This Book Might Wreck Your Life xi\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Diving In\u003cbr\u003e ONE • What’s Worth Wanting? 3\u003cbr\u003e TWO • Where Are We Starting From? 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: The Depths\u003cbr\u003e THREE • Who Do We Answer To? 35\u003cbr\u003e FOUR • How Does a Good Life Feel? 49\u003cbr\u003e FIVE • What Should We Hope For? 62\u003cbr\u003e SIX • How Should We Live? 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Bedrock\u003cbr\u003e SEVEN • The Recipe Test 105\u003cbr\u003e EIGHT • The Really Big Picture 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Facing the Limits\u003cbr\u003e NINE • When We (Inevitably) Botch It  153\u003cbr\u003e TEN • When Life Hurts . . . 172\u003cbr\u003e ELEVEN •  . . . And There’s No Fixing It 187\u003cbr\u003e TWELVE • When It Ends 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 5: Back to the Surface\u003cbr\u003e THIRTEEN • It Turns Out We Have Some Work to Do 227\u003cbr\u003e FOURTEEN • Change Is Hard 241\u003cbr\u003e FIFTEEN • Making It Stick 259\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: What Matters Most 281\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 285\u003cbr\u003e Notes 291\"This instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller is based on Yale’s popular undergrad class on the age-old question of the meaning of life…. Students have called the class life-changing, and readers who experience this book’s wisdom and new perspectives should feel the same way.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A must-read for any age.” \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Life Worth Living\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential roadmap for anyone who's ever wondered about how to live the good life. It's the accessible crash course we all need to explore the big questions that lead to a happier, more morally satisfying life.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Laurie Santos, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Three great scholars tackling the most important of Questions! This book is worth rolling up your sleeves, saying your prayers, and diving into what could be quite possibly the most important work you ever do. Whether on your own or with a small group, make this book a priority.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and author of \u003ci\u003eLove is the Way \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This valuable book is full of the wisdom of many minds and cultures on essential questions about selfhood, notably, how the self is to be understood, disciplined and enjoyed, and how it can discover an integrity that will be expressed in a good life.  The questions are ancient, but the book is absolutely timely.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eGilead \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The authors provide meaningful reflection and jumping-off points to better discover the aspects of your life that make it good.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eReader's Digest,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e named one of \"26 Best Inspirational Books That Are Sure to Change Your Life\"\u003c\/b\u003eMiroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz teach the most in-demand course in Yale College’s Humanities Program: Life Worth Living. Students describe the course as life changing, and preliminary analyses by an outside researcher show strongly significant effects of the course on students’ sense of meaning in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolf\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and director of the Yale Center for Faith \u0026amp; Culture, and was awarded the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for \u003ci\u003eExclusion and Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named one of the one hundred most influential religious books of the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCroasmun\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the director of the Life Worth Living program at the Yale Center for Faith \u0026amp; Culture, a lecturer in humanities at Yale College, and the faith initiative director at Grace Farms Foundation. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of Sin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLet Me Ask You a Question\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a coauthor with Volf of \u003ci\u003eFor the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcAnnally-Linz is the associate director of the Yale Center for Faith \u0026amp; Culture. 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