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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Random yet available. Be on the look out for them in life and enjoy them while they last. Cheers!
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inspiring
reflective
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inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Whatever man wrote this (and I know it was a man) thinks wearing scarves is a personality trait. He reads exclusively classic lit and self help books and it is not working. He looks down on people that drink their coffee with creamer instead of just black. This man hasn't felt the touch of a woman in nearly a decade.
Rather than reafirming my will to live and have joy in my life, I wanted to end it more than ever. I will never get the time I spent reading this book back.
Rather than reafirming my will to live and have joy in my life, I wanted to end it more than ever. I will never get the time I spent reading this book back.
This book misuses a nice set of small pleasures (e.g. visiting a fish market, being on a small island, contemplating a stone wall, going for a swim in the sea -- just to pick some of my favorites), for the purpose of introducing its "School of Life" psycho-drivel. Forget about enjoying the small pleasure as one should, you (the book always tells *you* what you are supposedly thinking) are somehow hitting "clear" on relationship troubles or forgetting (while thinking about, even though you weren't thinking about) stress at work.
What a waste of a wonderful topic. I could imagine a book that asks a bunch of people (say famous authors?) how they experience some of these small pleasures, or even just find instances of these things being described in literature. That would be an awesome book, but would of course take a lot more effort than resorting to platitudes as this one does.
What a waste of a wonderful topic. I could imagine a book that asks a bunch of people (say famous authors?) how they experience some of these small pleasures, or even just find instances of these things being described in literature. That would be an awesome book, but would of course take a lot more effort than resorting to platitudes as this one does.
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
“Small pleasures seem small until we pay them greater and more systematic attention”
Going against the Romantic idea that enjoyment comes from things that are rare or difficult to achieve, this book is a beautiful collection of little things in life that are actually not so little. It looks at the why and peels off all layers to help you understand what exactly gives importance to ‘small’ moments.
From the first second it feels like this book really gets you, that it knows you, and has been there with you through the small pleasures you’ve felt along the way. Such a weird yet happy feeling.
Expect an easy read with short descriptions of 51+ small pleasures in life, such as looking at old pictures of your parents and realizing that in some ways you don’t know them at all, how time seems to stop early morning, or admiring cows for seeming not to care about what anybody thinks of them.
Going against the Romantic idea that enjoyment comes from things that are rare or difficult to achieve, this book is a beautiful collection of little things in life that are actually not so little. It looks at the why and peels off all layers to help you understand what exactly gives importance to ‘small’ moments.
From the first second it feels like this book really gets you, that it knows you, and has been there with you through the small pleasures you’ve felt along the way. Such a weird yet happy feeling.
Expect an easy read with short descriptions of 51+ small pleasures in life, such as looking at old pictures of your parents and realizing that in some ways you don’t know them at all, how time seems to stop early morning, or admiring cows for seeming not to care about what anybody thinks of them.
Ich bin mir immer sehr unsicher gewesen was ich School of Life Büchern für eine Bewertung geben soll. Ich glaube aber mir ist endlich eine vernünftige Aussage eingefallen, die so ziemlich auf jedes the School of Life Buch eintrifft, das ich bisher gelesen hab. Die Bücher zu lesen ist wie eine tiefe Unterhaltung mit Freunden zu haben. Man tauscht sich aus, hört die geheimen Gedanken und damit auch die gewissen Wertvorstellungen, die die jeweiligen Freunde in sich tragen. Man erhält letztendlich einfach eine neue Sichtweise und kann sich gedanklich zu Themen ,bei denen man es häufig nicht tut, austauschen. Und genau das ist was mir an den Büchern so gefällt. Man muss nicht alles als gottgegeben und die objektive Wahrheit ansehen, aber es hilft sich selbst kennenzulernen und vorallem hilft es eventuelle Tücken an einem selbst aufzuweisen, wodurch man sich erst mit diesem Aspekt von sich selbst auseinandersetzen kann.
All in All würde ich allein dafür jedem Buch 5/5 Sternen geben, weil ich durch jedes etwas mehr von mir gelernt hab. Gleichzeitig sind relativ große Teile der Bücher aber auch völlig uninteressant geblieben und das eben macht das Bewerten meiner Meinung nach so schwierig.
Ich denke aber endgültig, dass allein die Möglichkeit dieses Gedankenaustauschs und der Fakt dass ich beim Lesen manchmal nen Wow-Effekt oder einfach ein innig warmes oder andere seltene Gefühle empfinde, genügen um den Büchern 5/5 Sternen zu geben auch wenn sie As A Whole nicht unbedingt so ein rating verdienen.
All in All würde ich allein dafür jedem Buch 5/5 Sternen geben, weil ich durch jedes etwas mehr von mir gelernt hab. Gleichzeitig sind relativ große Teile der Bücher aber auch völlig uninteressant geblieben und das eben macht das Bewerten meiner Meinung nach so schwierig.
Ich denke aber endgültig, dass allein die Möglichkeit dieses Gedankenaustauschs und der Fakt dass ich beim Lesen manchmal nen Wow-Effekt oder einfach ein innig warmes oder andere seltene Gefühle empfinde, genügen um den Büchern 5/5 Sternen zu geben auch wenn sie As A Whole nicht unbedingt so ein rating verdienen.