The Art of Flaneuring

How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life

By: Erika Owen

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

A fun and practical guide to cultivating a more mindful and fulfilling everyday life by tapping into your inner flaneur—perfect for fans of Marie Kondo and The Little Book of Hygge.

Have you ever been walking home from work and unexpectedly took a different path just to learn more about your neighborhood? Or have you been on a vacation and walked around a new city just to take it all in? Then chances are, you’re a flaneur and you didn’t even know it! Originally used to describe well-to-do French men who would stroll city streets in the nineteenth century, flaneur has evolved to generally mean someone who wanders with intention. Even if you’ve already embraced being a flaneur, did you know that flaneuring has benefits beyond satisfying your craving for wanderlust?

In The Art of Flaneuring, discover the many ways flaneuring can spark creativity, support a more mindful mentality, and improve your overall well-being, including:

-How flaneuring your mundane daily routine can boost your mental health
-Why flaneuring isn’t just for jet-setters—you can flaneur anywhere!
-How to manage your stress at the office by doing fun flaneur-inspired activities
-How to use flaneuring to connect on a deeper level with your friends and partner
-And so much more!

With this practical and engaging guide, you can learn how to channel your inner flaneur and cultivate a more creative, fulfilling, and mindful everyday life.

I wanted to like this.

I’ve been a local explorer for many years, so I thought the concept of flaneuring would be resonant. Not so, it’s just a bourgeois word for wandering. This is a pretentious book’s masquerading as self help. Save yourself a few hours and go for a walk instead of listening to this book

How to take a walk

I couldn't finish this, so it's possible it gets really engaging after the first hour, but the first few chapters read like a high school essay on how to take a walk, including a section with quotes from the author's family on why they like to take walks. In general, this lacks the philosophical substance I was expecting and reads more like a narrative on why people should walk and pay attention to their surroundings. Narration was fine, substance is lacking.

An entire chapter of quote from people about ‘why they walk’- seriously!

Complete waste of time and money. I skipped parts that were redundant and listened at a high speed just to ‘finish’. Don’t bother with this book.

simple and informative guide to explore your world

As someone who tries to quickly get from one destination to the next, I found this book to be helpful in encouraging me to try walking around my neighborhood and really taking in everything. When I left work the other day I decided to take a walk around the city before going home and it helped a lot. I'm looking forward to exploring further thanks to this book.