Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Is our obsession with controlling our lives making us unhappy? Anna Lembke's thought-provoking book Radical Surrender argues that we are obsessed with dictating every event in our lives, and that we need to realise we can't control everything.
David Robson takes stock There are forces beyond our control, so why is it so hard to accept that? As a young woman, Anna Lembke believed her fate was in her hands. A brilliant student, she graduated with honours from Yale University and spent a year teaching in Beijing before enrolling at Stanford Medical School in California, where she would specialise in psychiatry.
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