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My big takeaway from this book: Take responsibility for your own life through the pursuit of meaning and personal discipline. Take care of your own actions before throwing up your hands and criticizing the world at large.
Good book recommendations in this book:
- Brother’s K
- Gulag Archipelago
- Road to Wigan Pier
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Man’s Search for Meaning
Good book recommendations in this book:
- Brother’s K
- Gulag Archipelago
- Road to Wigan Pier
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Man’s Search for Meaning
challenging
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reflective
slow-paced
challenging
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inspiring
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informative
slow-paced
This collection of essays drips of JP all over the place, which is a great thing at times and nauseating at others, but I bet every reader will feel those two extremes at different points throughout the book. Nonetheless, I personally didn’t get as much out of it because I was already familiar with pretty much everything in the book because of “Maps of Meaning” and the two lectures series I watched last year, but this would definitely be my choice as an introduction to JP’s thoughts. I’m lookin forward to hearing the female perspective on the book from my friends soon.
There are a lot of useful advice in there, as well as recommendations for further reading. Sometimes, ideas are repeated with same wording which annoys me a little, like it's underestimating the readers, but then there are things that were just over my head so... Think about reading Maps of Meaning for complete picture. Probably would've had bigger impact if I wasn't already familiar with Peterson.