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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
challenging
medium-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
A somewhat convoluted but mind bending and enjoyable romp through social/cultural norms. This book offers intriguing alternative to the social conditioning in our culture.
A kind of clever word play of books, where sometimes the juxtaposition of words might inadvertently yield some insights. I didn't find the insight to nonsense ratio to be worth it, but maybe I'm just not enlightened enough yet.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
There are some great nuggets in this book but it is very philosophical and told with few stories or examples of the theories in real life. It helped me shift my thinking any how I view the world around me, but I feel like I could read this book several more times and walk away with something different each time.
slow-paced
By playing with semantics, and writing very vaguely and cryptically a la Deepak Chopra ("Attention and intention are the mechanics of manifestation". WTF?), and basing his grand pseudo-prophetic pronouncements upon fallacies and dramatic logic leaps, Carse touts timeless wisdom but is instead actually just masquerading.
By writing in such an ambiguous, nebulous manner, one can read whatever he or she wants to read. Just like magical tarot-card horoscope smoke-and-mirrors woo-woo.
The fact that many glowing reviews of this book fail to succinctly summarise the underlying tenet of this book shows that many reviewers are just pretending to understand this book. They conflate undecipherable, ambiguous, loose phrasing for some mystically forbidden and timelessly true wisdom cloaked in mist and framed by a golden magical light.
As a truly wise person (Einstein) said - If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
By writing in such an ambiguous, nebulous manner, one can read whatever he or she wants to read. Just like magical tarot-card horoscope smoke-and-mirrors woo-woo.
The fact that many glowing reviews of this book fail to succinctly summarise the underlying tenet of this book shows that many reviewers are just pretending to understand this book. They conflate undecipherable, ambiguous, loose phrasing for some mystically forbidden and timelessly true wisdom cloaked in mist and framed by a golden magical light.
As a truly wise person (Einstein) said - If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Very good premise and some very insightful aphorisms. Sometimes there is some real value being said, but other times it trods on a bit too much and uses mystifying language which is rather unclear.
Read this in college for a Religion Culture and the Meaning of Life philosophy class. I got a 100 on the paper.
Class spoiler: the meaning of life? It’s in the liver.
Class spoiler: the meaning of life? It’s in the liver.
This book has some interesting ideas and concepts which frustratingly get lost in the way this book is presented. It feels like you are reading pages and pages of bullet points. At times, it rambles and you are left wondering if it's written by a genius or a madman. Ultimately, I didn't find it engaging.