burkeman in A Sentence

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    So the stoics advocate a path through life quite different from that defended by Burkeman.

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    Unlike Burkeman, the stoics did not focus on negative thinking but on rational thinking and action.

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    In fact, as a clever article in the Sunday New York Times shares,“holiday shopping is designed to make you uncomfortable”(Burkeman, 2012).

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    In the end, what Burkeman has to offer isn't all that different from standard cognitive-behavioral therapeutic practices, which include the positive thinking methods he so strongly criticizes.

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    Burkeman doesn't spell out how his negative path can make up for the psychological, physiological and neurological effects of positive thinking or whether not gleaning these benefits from being positive could have detrimental health consequences.

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