Toxic Success: How to Stop Striving and Start Thriving

Clinical psychologist Paul Pearsall (The Heart's Code) believes success and how people define and pursue it can destroy personal health, ruin marriages and create feelings of loneliness and isolation. He criticizes the instinct for executives and soccer moms alike to ""multitask,"" and in Toxic Success: How to Stop Striving and Start Thriving, he teaches readers to find happiness in the ""now."" Pearsall's ""Sweet Success"" approach emphasizes shared, collective values (rather than a ""me-first"" attitude) and reminds people that money does not equal happiness. Workaholics and those who have difficulty knowing when to say when will find much useful advice in this intelligent book. (June)