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03223aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 6BC73D34C08811E888376B6D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180925010118 008 170220t20172017nyu b 000 0deng d 020 $a 1944869395 020 $a 9781944869397 035 $a (OCoLC)973292638 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d CLE $d FM0 $d IG$ $d UOK $d IGA $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 4 $a BF632 $b .C43 2017 082 04 $a 158.1 $2 23 100 1 $a Cederstr�om, Carl, $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Desperately seeking self-improvement : $b a year inside the optimization movement / $c Carl Cederstr�om and Andr�e Spicer. 264 1 $a New York : $b OR Books, $c [2017] 300 $a 358 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-358). 520 $a "For an extraordinary year, authors Carl Cederstr�om and Andr�e Spicer threw themselves headlong into the multifarious and often bizarre world of self-optimization, a burgeoning movement that seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by merely being human. As willing guinea pigs in an extraordinary (and sometimes downright dangerous) range of techniques and technologies, our heroic protagonists used apps that deliver electric shocks in pursuit of improved concentration, wore headbands designed to optimize meditation, attempted to boost their memory through associative techniques (and failed to be admitted to MENSA), trained for weightlifting competitions, wrote a Scandinavian detective story under the influence of mind enhancing drugs, enrolled in motivational seminars and tantra sex workshops, attended new-age retreats and man-camps, underwent plastic surgery, and experimented with vibrators that stimulated parts of the body they barely knew existed. Somewhat surprisingly, the two young professors survived this year of rigorous research and have drawn on it to produce a hilarious and eye-opening book. Written in the form of two parallel diaries, Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement provides a biting analysis of the narcissism and individual competitiveness that increasingly pervades a society in which, as social solutions recede, individual self-improvement is the only option left."--Back cover. 600 10 $a Cederstr�om, Carl, $d 1980- 600 10 $a Spicer, Andr�e. 650 0 $a Self-help techniques $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Self $x Humor. 650 7 $a HUMOR / Celebrity & Popular Culture. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HUMOR / Internet & Social Media. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HUMOR / Parodies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Selbstoptimierung $2 gnd 650 7 $a Self $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111441 650 7 $a Self-help techniques $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111754 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Humor $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423876 655 7 $a Humor $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423696 700 1 $a Spicer, Andr�e. $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010011149.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20180925010215.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6BC73D34C08811E888376B6D97128E48 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search