The Resource Everything harder than everyone else : why some of us push our bodies to extremes, Jenny Valentish
Everything harder than everyone else : why some of us push our bodies to extremes, Jenny Valentish
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The item Everything harder than everyone else : why some of us push our bodies to extremes, Jenny Valentish represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- It's part of human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this part comes to define us? When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed that people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What stayed constant was the need to push their boundaries. Everything Harder Than Everyone Else follows people doing the things that most couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't. Their insights lead Jenny on a compulsive, sometimes reckless journey through psychology, endurance and the power of obsession, revealing what we can learn about the human condition. There's the neuroscientist violating his brain to override his disgust response. The athlete using childhood adversity as grist for the mill. The wrestler turning restlessness into curated ultraviolence. The architect who hangs from hooks in her flesh to get out of her head. The performance artist seeking erasure by torturing his body. The BDSM dominant helping people flirt with death to feel more alive. The bare-knuckle boxer whose gnarliest opponent is her ego. The dancer who could not separate her identity from her practice until at death's door. The bodybuilder exacting order on a life that was once chaotic. And the porn-star-turned-fighter for whom sex and violence are two sides of the same coin. Darkly funny and vividly penetrating, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else explores our deeper selves and asks: what are your limits?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Don't know when to stop : endurance athletes
- Tasting the limits : performance artists and rogue scientists
- Bringing order to chaos : bodybuilders
- Engaging in edgeplay : BDSM
- Levelling up : belts and iron
- This is hardcore : porn stars
- The art of suffering : wrestlers
- Anger is an energy : fighters
- The first death : retirement and reinvention
- Isbn
- 9781760642488
- Label
- Everything harder than everyone else : why some of us push our bodies to extremes
- Title
- Everything harder than everyone else
- Title remainder
- why some of us push our bodies to extremes
- Statement of responsibility
- Jenny Valentish
- Subject
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- trueAustralian
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- truePhysical fitness
- truePhysical fitness -- Psychological aspects
- Applied individual psychology (Australia)
- Psychology (Australia)
- trueRisk-taking (Psychology)
- Sexual dominance and submission -- Psychological aspects
- trueSports -- Psychological aspects
- Pornography -- Psychological aspects
- trueAthletes -- Psychology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It's part of human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this part comes to define us? When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction in 2017, she noticed that people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon giving up. What stayed constant was the need to push their boundaries. Everything Harder Than Everyone Else follows people doing the things that most couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't. Their insights lead Jenny on a compulsive, sometimes reckless journey through psychology, endurance and the power of obsession, revealing what we can learn about the human condition. There's the neuroscientist violating his brain to override his disgust response. The athlete using childhood adversity as grist for the mill. The wrestler turning restlessness into curated ultraviolence. The architect who hangs from hooks in her flesh to get out of her head. The performance artist seeking erasure by torturing his body. The BDSM dominant helping people flirt with death to feel more alive. The bare-knuckle boxer whose gnarliest opponent is her ego. The dancer who could not separate her identity from her practice until at death's door. The bodybuilder exacting order on a life that was once chaotic. And the porn-star-turned-fighter for whom sex and violence are two sides of the same coin. Darkly funny and vividly penetrating, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else explores our deeper selves and asks: what are your limits?
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Valentish, Jenny
- Dewey number
- 796.019
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Physical fitness
- Physical fitness
- Athletes
- Sexual dominance and submission
- Pornography
- Risk-taking (Psychology)
- Sports
- Label
- Everything harder than everyone else : why some of us push our bodies to extremes, Jenny Valentish
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Don't know when to stop : endurance athletes -- Tasting the limits : performance artists and rogue scientists -- Bringing order to chaos : bodybuilders -- Engaging in edgeplay : BDSM -- Levelling up : belts and iron -- This is hardcore : porn stars -- The art of suffering : wrestlers -- Anger is an energy : fighters -- The first death : retirement and reinvention
- Control code
- 000068868896
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760642488
- Lccn
- 2020446858
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1243162012
- Label
- Everything harder than everyone else : why some of us push our bodies to extremes, Jenny Valentish
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Don't know when to stop : endurance athletes -- Tasting the limits : performance artists and rogue scientists -- Bringing order to chaos : bodybuilders -- Engaging in edgeplay : BDSM -- Levelling up : belts and iron -- This is hardcore : porn stars -- The art of suffering : wrestlers -- Anger is an energy : fighters -- The first death : retirement and reinvention
- Control code
- 000068868896
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760642488
- Lccn
- 2020446858
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1243162012
Subject
- trueAustralian
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- truePhysical fitness
- truePhysical fitness -- Psychological aspects
- Applied individual psychology (Australia)
- Psychology (Australia)
- trueRisk-taking (Psychology)
- Sexual dominance and submission -- Psychological aspects
- trueSports -- Psychological aspects
- Pornography -- Psychological aspects
- trueAthletes -- Psychology
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