{"title":"Pocket Library Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of small, hardback books that help us find honest answers to the questions that shape our lives\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"on-confidence","title":"On Confidence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeditations on the skill of self-belief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe difference between success and failure often hangs on a concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This book walks us around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hear about the impostor syndrome, the wisdom of imagining the great in their bathrooms, and what Nietzsche and Montaigne (among others) have to tell us about resilience and courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe often stay stuck with the level of confidence we have because we regard being confident as a matter of good luck. 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We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It's because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack confidence in our social lives and suffer from anxiety and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that, with immense compassion and fellow feeling, investigates the phenomenon of self-hatred while giving pragmatic advice on how to overcome it. 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We don't expect bliss every day. The fault isn't entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we're liable to meet is going to be rather wrong, in some fascinating way or another, because this is simply what all humans happen to be - including, sadly, ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays proposes that we don't need perfection to be happy. 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