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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
Intensely entertaining
I adore this book. I love the journey through self-help, and as someone who reads every personal development book I can get my hands on, I think there are a lot of parallels.
I also could not get through the 7 Habits despite numerous attempts.
I adore this book. I love the journey through self-help, and as someone who reads every personal development book I can get my hands on, I think there are a lot of parallels.
I also could not get through the 7 Habits despite numerous attempts.
This book made me laugh, a lot, and think a lot about life and the big picture things. It was one of those books that inspire you to action, while reading. I wanted to go on the same journey as Marianne Power.
A very zany book that is part memour, part self-help. I appreciate that it flows quickly and mixed the two components without tendium or trite. A good read if one is into or thinking of getting into self-help books. Many of her encounters are typical to the big city and not transferable to suburbia, but it's interesting nevertheless.
I think this book has something for everyone, but in my opinion one of the most important insights appeared on, like, the second to last page: trying to find happiness is not selfish, (partly) because your unhappiness affects everyone else. I like this thought, and I think it could help a lot of people that are struggling with their pursuit of happiness, maybe because they feel they should already be happy. If you're not happy, then you're not happy, and I think it's much more beneficial to everyone to try and do something about it, instead of comparing your (most likely) relatively good life to all the misery in the world (which I hate, by the way; you're not helping anyone) and trying to shame yourself into happiness. Also it was funny, entertaining and moving, so there's that. The best way to read self-help is having someone else do it for you.
I was hooked from the beginning, I felt so identified, maybe because I was going through a rough patch and I was on the verge of hitting rock bottom. I laughed and cried with it and I totally recommend it, it left a smile on my face and a much-needed feeling of calmness and peace.
funny
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
הספר הזה לא משתייך לאחד הז׳אנרים שאני קוראת בדרך כלל. התחלתי בעקבות המלצה של חברה והמשכתי בעיקר בזכות הכתיבה הקולחת והשנינות של הכותבת. האופן שבו היא מתארת את הדברים והמצבים שבהם מצאה את עצמה הוא משעשע ומעורר מחשבה. נהנתי מאוד, אם כי לקראת הסוף הרגשתי שמיציתי את העלילה. סה״כ ממליצה :)
After reading a few of the books mentioned in this one I was curious about reading this book. I loved it. Brilliantly written, funny and thought provoking.
My favorite segments from the book:
"Most of us spend our lives with a constant voice in our heads, the inner critic who judges and interprets reality and determines our mood. We all have a voice that comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes and so on. Quite often the voice isn't even focusing on what's happening now, it's rehashing some old situation or worrying about an imagined one in the future.
This voice stops us from ever enjoying the only thing that's real: the now. Only by living in the now can we find peace and joy. I was too busy drowning in past mistakes and imagined future disasters to actually get on with the task at hand. I was in a mental prison of my own making."
He says that it's natural for all of us to plan things for the future but that we must never prioritize the future over today. You can set goals and work towards them but you must give the most attention to the step you are taking now, not the end destination. If you don't do that, your life is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to "make it".
When we feel shame we do several things. First, we try to be perfect. We think that if we can just get thinner, smarter, more successful, then we'll feel okay and people will love us and we won't get hurt.
When that doesn't work- and it never does- we try another approach, we numb our feelings of shame. We watch television. We drink. We eat too much. We take drugs.
Then when the numbing and perfectionism doesn't work, we go down the third route: we cut ourselves off, shut down our feelings, decide to go it alone.
"Most of us spend our lives with a constant voice in our heads, the inner critic who judges and interprets reality and determines our mood. We all have a voice that comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes and so on. Quite often the voice isn't even focusing on what's happening now, it's rehashing some old situation or worrying about an imagined one in the future.
This voice stops us from ever enjoying the only thing that's real: the now. Only by living in the now can we find peace and joy. I was too busy drowning in past mistakes and imagined future disasters to actually get on with the task at hand. I was in a mental prison of my own making."
He says that it's natural for all of us to plan things for the future but that we must never prioritize the future over today. You can set goals and work towards them but you must give the most attention to the step you are taking now, not the end destination. If you don't do that, your life is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to "make it".
When we feel shame we do several things. First, we try to be perfect. We think that if we can just get thinner, smarter, more successful, then we'll feel okay and people will love us and we won't get hurt.
When that doesn't work- and it never does- we try another approach, we numb our feelings of shame. We watch television. We drink. We eat too much. We take drugs.
Then when the numbing and perfectionism doesn't work, we go down the third route: we cut ourselves off, shut down our feelings, decide to go it alone.