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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Listened to the audio.
this book was approximately 10% interesting, 60% repetitive and 30% cringey proclamations
this book was approximately 10% interesting, 60% repetitive and 30% cringey proclamations
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
The book is okay, some fascinating information but lots and lots of repetition. I like Wim Hof and have listened to or watched lots of his content and find great benefit from his method personally. I think you could watch his online content and get the same benefit as reading this book, but regardless of how you go about it I think its a great method to learn and some good ideas to become aware of!
i love the book, i love his lifestyle, i love his methods. he connects spirituality to breathing. there’s a lot of science backing up his claims. i love his awareness of the ego. its clear hes not in this for the money or the fame. he genuinely wants to help people and spread the help.
Read like indoctrination into a cult but did have some compelling stats
inspiring
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
*Note* Cousin Brandon was generous enough to gift me this book all on his own accord. He gets bonus points. He's the real MVP here. (Queue meme that I still don't know how to insert in Goodreads reviews.)
Depending on, 1) if you like self-help books and 2) the number of quality self-help books you've read, this one will vary from person to person.
For me, barely 3 stars.
I liked the book, had great potential in the beginning but it didn't meet up to all of it and then fizzled out pretty bad. It was also very poorly written. Anytime an author finishes a sentence with man he loses most credibility with me....man.
With that said, it also could have been reduced, greatly. The history of his life was nice and I really enjoyed that. But the WHM could have been reduced down to a one-page memo.
The Wim Hoff Method is built on three simple rules:
-Cold exposure (many points given for novelty)
-Conscious breathing (many points subtracted due to repetitiveness)
-The power of the mind (a few points for my favorite topic but he barely scratches the surface nor does he go in-depth with this section - see repeated conscious breathing).
It looks like Wim has written a lot of other books on the subject. I doubt they are much different than this. Since I had a paper copy I took a lot of notes in the margins (I read this while doing the Stoic Reading Challenge) and let loose on my thoughts of him. But most of those won't be shared here.
And just so you don't think this is a straight up rant; I liked how his unusual birth story had him yearning for something more, something deeper and mystical. Also his experiences of biking around was spot on. Being outdoors heightens al our senses. Eating food outside over the fire connects them with nature.
I've been finishing my showers with cold water. I'll keep doing that because I want to reap those benefits.
For the most part, the breathing principles were sound but I found some contradictions with [b:Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art|48890486|Breath The New Science of a Lost Art|James Nestor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1575339793l/48890486._SY75_.jpg|74281999] (which was a much better book to learn about the why's and especially the how's of breathing).
Notes:
A stressful exposure can have harmful effects at high doses, but at low doses it can actually create changes in our body that makes us healthier and stronger.
Wearing coats and stuff coddles your "cold system", for lack of a better term, just like how using hand sanitizer (and masks) coddles your immune system. Stop doing these things.
Science is a slow process of incremental knowledge building where no one study proves anything.
You get to know who you are because you have no one else to talk to. You find yourself in the depths of yourself.
When you're biking you charge up your feelings, you look around, and everything is amplified because you forge a direct connection with it all.
Meeting other people who are more exuberant and open, liberated his mind.
Discipline is a way to liberate yourself.
Tikkun Olam is Jewish for bearing a responsibility for our own moral, spiritual, and material welfare, as well as for society at large.
Depending on, 1) if you like self-help books and 2) the number of quality self-help books you've read, this one will vary from person to person.
For me, barely 3 stars.
I liked the book, had great potential in the beginning but it didn't meet up to all of it and then fizzled out pretty bad. It was also very poorly written. Anytime an author finishes a sentence with man he loses most credibility with me....man.
With that said, it also could have been reduced, greatly. The history of his life was nice and I really enjoyed that. But the WHM could have been reduced down to a one-page memo.
The Wim Hoff Method is built on three simple rules:
-Cold exposure (many points given for novelty)
-Conscious breathing (many points subtracted due to repetitiveness)
-The power of the mind (a few points for my favorite topic but he barely scratches the surface nor does he go in-depth with this section - see repeated conscious breathing).
It looks like Wim has written a lot of other books on the subject. I doubt they are much different than this. Since I had a paper copy I took a lot of notes in the margins (I read this while doing the Stoic Reading Challenge) and let loose on my thoughts of him. But most of those won't be shared here.
And just so you don't think this is a straight up rant; I liked how his unusual birth story had him yearning for something more, something deeper and mystical. Also his experiences of biking around was spot on. Being outdoors heightens al our senses. Eating food outside over the fire connects them with nature.
I've been finishing my showers with cold water. I'll keep doing that because I want to reap those benefits.
For the most part, the breathing principles were sound but I found some contradictions with [b:Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art|48890486|Breath The New Science of a Lost Art|James Nestor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1575339793l/48890486._SY75_.jpg|74281999] (which was a much better book to learn about the why's and especially the how's of breathing).
Notes:
A stressful exposure can have harmful effects at high doses, but at low doses it can actually create changes in our body that makes us healthier and stronger.
Wearing coats and stuff coddles your "cold system", for lack of a better term, just like how using hand sanitizer (and masks) coddles your immune system. Stop doing these things.
Science is a slow process of incremental knowledge building where no one study proves anything.
You get to know who you are because you have no one else to talk to. You find yourself in the depths of yourself.
When you're biking you charge up your feelings, you look around, and everything is amplified because you forge a direct connection with it all.
Meeting other people who are more exuberant and open, liberated his mind.
Discipline is a way to liberate yourself.
Tikkun Olam is Jewish for bearing a responsibility for our own moral, spiritual, and material welfare, as well as for society at large.
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced