“더 이상 무례하고 사소한 것들에 신경 쓰지 않겠습니다!” 함부로 던지는 가시 돋친 말에, 자꾸만 어긋나는 인간관계에, 오늘도 내 마음 쓰라리게 아팠다면? 300만 베스트셀러 작가 와타나베 준이치가 전하는 소중한 내 인생을 위한 마음 처방전 100만 부 판매 밀리언셀러 『나는 까칠하게 살기로 했다』 양창순 박사 추천
불행하게도 현대인의 일상은 스트레스를 주는 일로 가득하다. 매일 아침 빠지지 않고 치르는 출근 전쟁부터, 사사건건 잔소리를 늘어놓는 직장 상사, 뒤에서 험담을 일삼는 동료, 속을 아는지 모르는지 자기 자랑만 늘어놓는 친구까지…… 마음에 상처 주는 일은 끊임없이 반복되고, 그 영향은 우리 건강에도 적신호를 보낸다. 가슴이 답답하고, 머리가 깨질 듯 아프고, 쉽게 잠을 이루지 못하는 건 그만큼 마음이 힘들기 때문이다.
그런데 정말 이렇게 살아도 괜찮은 걸까? 혹시 우리가 일상의 스트레스를 너무 민감하게 받아들이는 건 아닐까?
와타나베 준이치는 행복한 인생을 살아가기 위해 ‘조금 더 둔감하게 살라’고 조언한다. 사소한 일을 민감하고 예민하게 받아들이면 소소한 일상의 행복을 놓치기 쉽다. 힘들고 곤란한 일일수록 둔감한 태도로, 마음에 담아두지 않고 흘려보내야 정신 건강에 이롭다. 억지로 스트레스를 견뎌내기보다 아예 신경을 쓰지 않는 방향으로 전략을 바꾸는 것이다. 실제로 몸과 마음이 둔감한 사람은 질병에 걸리거나 아픈 일이 적고, 힘든 일이 생겨도 쉽게 이겨낸다. 물론 직장 생활이나 인간관계에서도 둔감한 사람들은 늘 성공을 이끌어낸다.
민감하고 예민한 마음에 하루하루가 만족스럽지 않은 사람, 이제 더 이상 눈치 보지 않고 내 인생의 주인을 되찾고 싶은 사람들에게 이 책을 권한다.
Junichi Watanabe ( 渡辺淳一, Watanabe Jun'ichi, October 24, 1933 – April 30, 2014) was a Japanese writer, known for his portrayal of the extra-marital affairs of middle aged people.
His 1997 novel 'A Lost Paradise' became a bestseller in Japan and over Asia, and was made into a film and a TV miniseries. He has written more than 50 novels in total, and won awards including Naoki Prize in 1970 for 'Light and Shadow' (Hikari to kage), New Current Coterie magazine prize for Makeup, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize in 1979 for 'The Setting Sun in the Distance' (Toki rakujitsu) and 'The Russian Brothel of Nagasaki' (Nagasaki roshia yujokan).
He was born in Sunagawamachi (present-day Kamisunagawa) and died on April 30, 2014 of prostate cancer in Tokyo.
Probably one of the worst book I’ve read in my life
This book has talked about the importance of insensitivity from different sections. Such as human body and emotional. Well for the human body part he mentioned such as : our stomach should have the sense of insensitivity or it will probably get sick quite a lot so it will annoy us. Or, we should have the sense of insensitivity for our hearing, cause it will annoy us as well if we are sensitive with all those noises around us. Well dude, this is not something we can control?????? I believe people who has those sensitive senses are definitely annoyed! So it just doesn’t make any sense for me to talk about those things that we can’t even control.
For the importance of being insensitive with emotions, he used a really bad example, which is a mistress has complained to the author about that how she jealous of the man have to leave her every night to go back to his family, and the author’s advice is she shouldn’t care about those things she should just focus on the “ happiness” or she will be really struggling in this situation……I do agree with the author mentioned it is healthy for us to not get angry that much, or do not make division when you being emotional etc, we should be a bit insensitive with those kind of situation. But I just can’t accept he use this mistress thing as an example, cause this is wrong, no matter of what, you trying to put a theory that you think it’s right on a wrong example, how is that gonna work……
It is my first-ever book review on Goodreads. I couldn’t believe that it was the book that triggered me to start writing reviews.
I love this book. I would say it is a simple, thin book but it inspired me a lot. I am a highly-sensitive guy and my sensitivity always consumes me significantly. This book gives me a new perspective on seeing things. The power of insensitivity indeed acts like a parachute helping a free-falling guy to land slowly and safely. Doesn’t it sound great?
I would strongly recommend this book to those who are looking for inner peace and calm in this chaotic world.