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bugsybugs's review
Enjoyed listening to it but I stopped so I could catch up with a written exercise and then never restarted.
sheesalt's review against another edition
5.0
Forget the cliches. Terri Trespicio is offering a refreshing and candid new approach to help you really answer why you were put on this Earth and help you figure out what are you going to do about it. Dive in now and find out why you don't need to be fixed, why it's OK to be bored and that getting comfortable can actually be a good thing!
davidgilani's review against another edition
3.0
A self-help / improvement book that does have some good points, but maybe didn't feel like it fully pulls together into a consistent message or style.
What is great about this book is its challenge of the idea that things need to be hard to be worth it.
I personally didn't like the structure of the book as a workbook - with time at the end of each chapter for you as a read to stop, write and reflect. I think the best books are those that are filled with such insight that you go "mmmm" in a positive way... and then pause because you need time to think about what you've just realised for the first time in your life. The structured pausing to reflect felt too forced for it, but I could see it would be useful for some.
What is great about this book is its challenge of the idea that things need to be hard to be worth it.
I personally didn't like the structure of the book as a workbook - with time at the end of each chapter for you as a read to stop, write and reflect. I think the best books are those that are filled with such insight that you go "mmmm" in a positive way... and then pause because you need time to think about what you've just realised for the first time in your life. The structured pausing to reflect felt too forced for it, but I could see it would be useful for some.
jtlars7's review against another edition
2.0
Did a fair amount of skimming. Engaging anecdotes that often seemed to obscure the point rather than illuminate it. Disingenuous claims to be offering the opposite of the “usual” advice while actually just repackaging it. (Don’t get out of your comfort zone - Expand your comfort zone instead! This distinction only works if you pretend, as the author does, that people who are advising leaving your comfort zone are telling you to seek perpetual discomfort for its own sake.)
jmsweevils's review against another edition
5.0
This book is “up there” with other books like ‘Your Turn’ by Julie Lythcott Haims, and other books geared toward the soul who is searching for the ways to self-advocate, to find their more ideal self, while considering the systems, the biases, and the generational “shoulds” and “should nots” that keep us from being free to author our own lives. Trespicio was vulnerable, humble, and so relateable.
Trespicio’s experience with the Gateless program shines through with thoughtful writing prompts at the end of each chapter. And let me tell you…DO THEM. They are what moved this book from inspirational to introspective and it works. 5 BIG stars!
Trespicio’s experience with the Gateless program shines through with thoughtful writing prompts at the end of each chapter. And let me tell you…DO THEM. They are what moved this book from inspirational to introspective and it works. 5 BIG stars!