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title: "The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) Paperback – July 17, 1993"
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# The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) Paperback – July 17, 1993

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## Customer Reviews

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    A great classic, loaded with wisdom
  

*by R***U on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2014*

This author wrote a series of titles with a similar shred world view regarding peoples inhumanity to themselves, let alone each other.  In the "Situation is Hopeless But Not Serious," Paul Watzlawick illustrates the unavoidable truth of life adaptive challenges being inevitable (hopelessly human), and contrasts such futility with a view, shared by Nietzsche, that "to live-is to suffer," or Buddhism's Noble Truth that with living comes, also requires suffering, or simple "To live is to suffer," therefore lacks a serious rating, so Not Serious, per say.  The iconic avatar in performing arts, are a matched pair of masks, one designed showing a laughing, wide smilie.  The smiling mask, hangs parallel to a dower, saddened expression, dramatizing tragedy.  Comics regularly remark as to life's agony being the stuff humor is derived.  In deed, our existential and ontological circumstances suggest The Situation is Hopeless but not Serious, making this little book a memorable gem and highly recommended.When Paul Watzlawick was addressing in 1983, core twenty-first century meta-concepts without the science informing his thinking was his intended target.  His grapes of psycholinguistics, strategic verbal maneuvers for interpersonal positioning, & pragmatic flexibility of language had a great insight, Watzlawick attempts to impart with this delightful title. The final paragraph of his chapter one illustrates this point perfectly.  In summing up his thesis; "However, the true genius manages to go to the ultimate extreme & with heroic determination rejects even what he himself considers the best decision, that is, the voice of his own reason. Thus the smack not only bites its own tail but actually devours itself, & a state of unhappiness is created that is beyond comparison.  Of course, for the less gifted readers this state of misery remains a sublime if unattainable goal."From the multitude of papers, essays, commentary, & books Paul Watzlawick has published, this title "Situation is Hopeless But Not Serious," ranks among his finest.

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    Correct and clever but not too useful for me
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2018*

The witty and sometimes sarcastic style is highly entertaining, the language is certainly erudite, and it's a fun read, but the reverse approach that emphasizes how to make mistakes also makes it hard for me to pull out the things I SHOULD do. At least that's what I thought when I read the book. Now, a week or so later, I find myself engaging in certain highlighted processes and think, "whoa, THIS isn't going to be productive". So, hey, maybe it works, eh?

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    Worked for me
  

*by B***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2019*

This book is a classic and effective use of reverse psychology.  The author lists all the different ways that people sabotage their own happiness, and he does so in a humorous way.  The approach works because the reader finds himself resisting and denying that he engages in such self-sabotage, all the while knowing that he does.  This is an impetus to refrain from the type of thinking that leads to unhappiness and therefore a successful means to that end.

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