Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

By
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
2012 • 226 pages

Offers advice for letting go of ideas about how life might have been in order to make the most of what life has to offer in the here and now by embracing failure, frustration, and other apparently negative, but necessary, elements of our lives.

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