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Why do we work so hard and still feel stuck? Why do we need something to believe in? Why do we feel lonely in a crowd, resist the changes we need, or do the opposite of what we know is right?

The Questions We Live With takes twenty-five of life's most persistent questions and looks at each one twice: through the long conversation of philosophy and through what psychology has learned about how people actually feel, fear, hope, and choose.

Every chapter opens with a story, from a night-shift worker watching her paycheck disappear to a man refreshing his inbox forty times a day, and closes with a question to sit with. In between, thinkers from Socrates and Hannah Arendt to Viktor Frankl and Daniel Kahneman are invited in as conversation partners, not authorities, and every chapter makes room for the strongest objection to its own direction.

The book moves from the world we inherit (education, belief, corruption, and inequality) through the lives we struggle to build, the mysteries of meaning, suffering, and death, and the bonds that hold us to the struggle within: happiness, change, freedom, and self-knowledge. It does not promise easy answers. It offers something steadier: a way of living with open questions that leaves you more curious, more honest, and kinder to yourself and others.

An epilogue offers a simple weekly practice, including a question notebook and a "question dinner" to share with friends or family.

We may not always find the answers we are looking for. But in learning to ask better questions, we may begin to understand our lives more honestly.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798237493191
  • ISBN-10: 9798237493191
  • Publisher: Bernspen
  • Publish Date: November 2026
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
  • Page Count: 190

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