Your Own Odyssey - Couverture souple

Clark, Greta

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235351790

Editeur : Grete Books, 2026

Synopsis

Three thousand years before self-help had a name, the Greeks already had case studies in exactly how humans get stuck, and how they get free again.

You already know these names, even if you haven't thought about them since school. Achilles. Sisyphus. Antigone. Icarus. What you probably don't know is that each one of them solved, or spectacularly failed to solve, a problem you are dealing with right now.

Your Own Odyssey takes twenty one of Greek mythology's most famous figures and turns each one into a practical playbook for a specific modern struggle:

• Achilles and the rage that outlives the reason for it
• Sisyphus and how to find meaning in work that never stays finished
• Antigone and the cost of standing on principle with no guarantee of being proven right
• Icarus and the narrow, easy-to-miss difference between ambition and self-destruction
• Daedalus and the trap of getting stuck inside a system you built yourself

Each chapter retells the myth in plain language, no background in the classics required, and ends with The Trial, a specific, doable exercise built directly out of that hero's story.

You are not fighting a cyclops this year. But you are almost certainly fighting some smaller, more familiar version of everything in this book: a grudge that's outlived its cause, a goal too big to see the end of, a truth you already suspect and haven't confirmed. Twenty one heroes already lived through it first.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grete Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235351790
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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