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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
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Had to push myself to finish it but it was alright.
Great book!
Here are some quotes from the book.
“Aristotle wrote, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Being able to look at and evaluate different values without necessarily adopting them is perhaps the central skill required in changing one’s own life in a meaningful way.”
“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.”
“If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “How do I stop suffering?” but “Why am I suffering—for what purpose?”
“What is objectively true about your situation is not as important as how you come to see the situation, how you choose to measure it and value it.”
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”
“Improvement at anything is based on a thousand of tiny failures, ...and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.”
Here are some quotes from the book.
“Aristotle wrote, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Being able to look at and evaluate different values without necessarily adopting them is perhaps the central skill required in changing one’s own life in a meaningful way.”
“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.”
“If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “How do I stop suffering?” but “Why am I suffering—for what purpose?”
“What is objectively true about your situation is not as important as how you come to see the situation, how you choose to measure it and value it.”
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”
“Improvement at anything is based on a thousand of tiny failures, ...and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.”
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
challenging
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Surprisingly shallow rehash of a variety of philosophical theories. If I'm in a lenient mood I'd say that the author manages to present a very low-entry introduction to stoicism and an odd mix of Buddhism-related mindfulness ideas... But honestly, it's more a mixture of superficial interpretations of ideas from greater minds being passed on as profound personal thoughts. I liked the modern day approach to the idea of choosing one's values carefully (chapter 2), but much of the rest lacks maturity, argumentation and depth. A statement like "Our pain often makes us stronger, more resilient, more grounded. Many cancer survivors, for example, report feeling stronger and more grateful after winning their battle to survive" (page 148), really just makes me cry inside. Not to mention the whole 'winning a battle' crap (cancer and its treatment in NO way resembles a fight, it's like saying you lost your battle to automobiles if you die in a car accident), it also stinks of Mother Theresa-style idolization of suffering.
This book is a great example of how to create clickbait with a catchy title.
This book is a great example of how to create clickbait with a catchy title.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
It's fine, nothing revolutionary.