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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
I was hoping this would be more concrete, along the lines of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, but it felt very surface level. The ‘characters’ didn’t feel as tangible or real.
Love the thesis, found the case studies a little tedious. Highly recommend Satya’s newsletter of the same name.
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I hate to start the year off with a DNF, but I don’t feel like I’m really getting a ton out of this book. The central premise — that there are only 2 types of ‘quarterlifers’, ‘Stability Types’ and ‘Meaning Types’ — just doesn’t resonate with me enough to justify reading an entire book trying to prove the theory. 2.5 hours in, and It feels like we’re still on the surface with no promise of diving any deeper.
And it needs to go deeper, because while some people may tend more toward one or the other type at various points during this period of life, many people are also a combination of the two. If cultivating a healthy balance of the two types is the only solution this book is building to, then it might have been better suited as a blog post.
It just seems like there’s more filler in the book than actual meat. I might’ve stuck it out a little longer to see if it built to any other revelations, but I kept getting hung up on the amount of random detail in the case studies (i.e., the expression a patient made when they said something or their inflection on every other word or how they shifted in their seat). It might be a random thing to be distracted by, but it honestly made the sessions read more like (poorly written) fiction rather than a recount of an actual conversation, and I really can’t listen to it anymore.
At 4 stars, it does seem like this book has resonated with a lot of people — and maybe it’ll resonate with you too. I just have too many books to read and far too little time in which to read them — for me personally, I can’t justify spending more time on this one.
And it needs to go deeper, because while some people may tend more toward one or the other type at various points during this period of life, many people are also a combination of the two. If cultivating a healthy balance of the two types is the only solution this book is building to, then it might have been better suited as a blog post.
It just seems like there’s more filler in the book than actual meat. I might’ve stuck it out a little longer to see if it built to any other revelations, but I kept getting hung up on the amount of random detail in the case studies (i.e., the expression a patient made when they said something or their inflection on every other word or how they shifted in their seat). It might be a random thing to be distracted by, but it honestly made the sessions read more like (poorly written) fiction rather than a recount of an actual conversation, and I really can’t listen to it anymore.
At 4 stars, it does seem like this book has resonated with a lot of people — and maybe it’ll resonate with you too. I just have too many books to read and far too little time in which to read them — for me personally, I can’t justify spending more time on this one.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced