The right life - Remo H. Largo

How do we find the life that's right for each of us?

More
and more of us are feeling overwhelmed by the everyday struggle to lead
the lives to which we aspire. Children are placed under unbearable
pressure to achieve; adults fight a constant battle to balance family
life with work and economic demands; old people suffer from social
isolation and a lack of emotional security. People of every age are
feeling increasingly at odds with the world, and less able to live a
life that corresponds to their individual needs and talents.

At
the root of this problem, argues internationally renowned child
development expert Remo Largo, is a mistaken idea of what makes us
human.

A distillation of forty years of research and medical experience, The Right Life
sets out a new theory of human thriving. Tracing our development as
individuals from the beginnings of evolution to the twenty-first
century, he sets out his own theory, the 'Fit Principle', which proposes
that every human strives to live in harmony with their fellow humans
and their environment. Rather than a ceaseless quest for
self-improvement and growth, he argues, our collective goals should be
individual self-acceptance, as we embrace the unique matrix of skills,
needs and limitations that makes each of us who we are.

Not
only, Largo suggests, can a true understanding of human thriving help
people find their way back to their individuality; it can help us to
reshape society and economy in order to live as fully as possible.