The best self-defence against reality
Short texts you can read faster than you can get annoyed at anything. For Mondays, for the queue at the doctor’s and for all those days when reality goes a bit too far.
Short, juicy, satirical texts about the everyday problems of adult homo sapiens, accompanied by funny drawings by Małgorzata Jasionek. Improves your mood on working days and holidays alike. Teaches optimism and positive thinking.
For adults who have lived through plenty of Mondays and know perfectly well that reality is rarely polite. For those who keep a straight face at work, in the queue and at family gatherings, while inside they feel like howling.
And for everyone who, on hearing “just think positive”, feels an irresistible urge to do something not very nice. You will not find advice like that here. You will find humour that really helps.
Dozens of short, satirical texts about things you know all too well: work, neighbours, shopping, holidays, resolutions and why nothing ever works when it should.
Each text stands on its own, so you can read the book from the beginning, from the end or from the middle. They come with drawings by Małgorzata Jasionek, with whom I run Poprawczak Nastroju on Instagram — often they say more than the text next to them.
Humour is not an escape from problems but a way of taming them. Research on humour and positive psychology says so, I say so in my trainings — and this book does the same, just without the training room and the flipchart.
It also makes a great gift: for someone tired, for someone who “has everything”, and for someone who is hard to buy for.
Dr Maria Kmita is an optimist both professionally and privately – she was even named Optimist of the Year 2024. What is more, she has a PhD in humour and is not afraid to use it. She runs trainings on humour, optimism and napology, and as if that was not enough, she is raising three sons. She writes from experience, in a light and unpretentious way, and teaches how to keep a healthy distance from yourself and your problems.
At the Medical University of Wroclaw she teaches future doctors about humour, positive psychology and applied napology. She is a proud owner of three Educational Leader Awards.
