Eric Weiner

What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling witty, entertaining romp (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valleyand back through history, tooto show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.In this intellectual odyssey, travelers diary, and comic novel all rolled into one (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness), acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. A superb travel guide: funny, knowledgeable, and self-deprecating (The Washington Post), he explores the history of places like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. With his trademark insightful humor, this big-hearted humanist (The Wall Street Journal) walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these settings to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Leonardo remains. In these places, Weiner asks, What was in the air, and can we bottle it? Fun and thought provoking (The Miami Herald), The Geography of Genius reevaluates the importance of culture in nurturing creativity and offers a practical map for how we can all become a bit more inventive (Adam Grant, author of Originals).

Una lectura apasionante en la que Eric Weiner nos invita a viajar por el mundo y a través del tiempo para demostrarnos cómo el genio creativo florece en lugares y en momentos específicos Weiner examina la conexion entre lo que nos rodea y nuestras ideas mas innovadoras. Explora la Viena de 1900, la Florencia del Renacimiento, la antigua Atenas, la Hangzhou de la dinastia Song y Silicon Valley para mostrar como ciertos escenarios urbanos propician el ingenio. Con el perspicaz humor que lo caracteriza, Weiner visita los escenarios que inspiraron a figuras como Socrates, Miguel Angel o Leonardo y se pregunta: ¿Que habia en el aire? ¿Podemos embotellarlo?.Esta conexion se puede trazar a lo largo de la historia: la teoria de la evolucion de Darwin se consolido mientras iba en carruaje, Freud desarrollo sus mejores teorias en su cafeteria favorita y Beethoven, como muchos genios, preferia dar largos paseos por el bosque.Una lectura aguda y provocativa, La geografia de los genios redefine el debate sobre como los genios llegaron a serlo. Un analisis sobre como la cultura es esencial para potenciar la creatividad.

What makes a nation happy? Is one countrys sense of happiness the same as anothers? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about whos happy and who isnt. The Dutch are, the Romanians arent, and Americans are somewhere in between...After years of going to the worlds least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each countrys different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and its not a good one)·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness!·He asks himself why the British dont do happiness?In Weiners quest to find the worlds happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.

Vamos embarcar em uma viagem única e sem bilhete de volta para conhecer a origem e as raízes que alimentaram a mente e o espírito dos grande gênios da humanidade, conduzidos pelo aclamado autor Eric

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss and The Geography of Genius embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of historys greatest thinkers and showing us how eachfrom Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoiroffers practical and spiritual lessons for todays unsettled times.We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope.In The Socrates Express, Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and travel in a globe-trotting pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to reconnect with philosophys original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Beauvoir and 20th-century Paris, Weiners chosen philosophers and places provide important practical and spiritual lessons as we navigate todays chaotic times.In a delightful odyssey that will take you places intellectually and humorously (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions. Both accessible and deeply insightful, The Socrates Express is full of valuable lessonsa fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls them in deeper and deeper (NPR).

Part biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for living a purposeful and virtuous life.Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of only two non-presidents to appear on US currency, Franklin was a founder, statesman, scientist, inventor, diplomat, publisher, humorist, and philosopher. He believed in the American experiment, but Ben Franklins greatest experiment wasBen Franklin. In that spirit of betterment, Eric Weiner embarks on an ambitious quest to live the way Ben lived.A warm combination of homage and introspective memoir (Kirkus Reviews), Ben & Me is a guide to living and thinking well, as Ben Franklin did. It is also about curiosity, respect for virtue, and, most of all, the elusive goal of self-improvement. As Weiner follows Franklin from Philadelphia to Paris, Boston to London, he attempts to uncover Bens life lessons, large and small. We learn how to improve a relationship with someone by inducing them to do a favor for youa psychological phenomenon now known as The Ben Franklin Effect. We learn about the printing press (the internet of its day), early medicine, diplomatic intrigue, and, of course, electricity. And we learn about ethics, persuasion, humor, regret, appetite, and so much more.At a time when history is either neglected or contested, Weiner argues we have much to learn from the past and that wed all be better off if we acted and thought a bit more like Ben did, even if he didnt always live up to his own high ideals. Engaging, smart, moving, and quirky, Ben & Me distills the essence of Franklins ideas into grounded, practical wisdom for all of us.

Acudimos a la filosofía por las mismas razones por las que viajamos: para ver el mundo desde una perspectiva diferente, para desenterrar la belleza oculta y para encontrar nuevas formas de ser. Queremos abrazar las maravillas del mundo, enfrentar la desdicha y mantener la esperanza.Eric Weiner combina sus pasiones por la filosofia y por los viajes en una peregrinacion que descubre las lecciones de vida mas sorprendentes de los grandes pensadores de todo el mundo, desde Rousseau a Nietzsche o de Confucio a Simone Weil. Viajando en tren (el medio de transporte mas reflexivo), recorre miles de kilometros, hace paradas en Atenas, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt y puntos intermedios para reconectarse con el proposito original de la filosofia: enseñarnos a emprender vidas mas sabias y significativas. Desde Socrates y la antigua Atenas hasta Simone de Beauvoir y el Paris del siglo XX, los filosofos y lugares elegidos por Weiner proporcionan señales importantes a medida que navegamos en los caoticos tiempos de hoy.En El expreso de Socrates, Weiner nos invita a viajar junto a el en su busqueda de sabiduria y descubrimiento que nos cambiara la vida al tiempo que intenta encontrar respuestas a nuestras preguntas mas vitales.

Acudimos a la filosofía por las mismas razones por las que viajamos: para ver el mundo desde una perspectiva diferente, para desenterrar la belleza oculta y para encontrar nuevas formas de ser. Queremos abrazar las maravillas del mundo, enfrentar la desdicha y mantener la esperanza.Eric Weiner combina sus pasiones por la filosofia y por los viajes en una peregrinacion que descubre las lecciones de vida mas sorprendentes de los grandes pensadores de todo el mundo, desde Rousseau a Nietzsche o de Confucio a Simone Weil. Viajando en tren (el medio de transporte mas reflexivo), recorre miles de kilometros, hace paradas en Atenas, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt y puntos intermedios para reconectarse con el proposito original de la filosofia: enseñarnos a emprender vidas mas sabias y significativas. Desde Socrates y la antigua Atenas hasta Simone de Beauvoir y el Paris del siglo XX, los filosofos y lugares elegidos por Weiner proporcionan señales importantes a medida que navegamos en los caoticos tiempos de hoy.En El expreso de Socrates, Weiner nos invita a viajar junto a el en su busqueda de sabiduria y descubrimiento que nos cambiara la vida al tiempo que intenta encontrar respuestas a nuestras preguntas mas vitales.