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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Someone who spells it out, right into your face. There’s no hiding after reading this book. Just own your choices.
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
Needed a quick read while waiting for another book I’ve been next in line for. I hate the term “self help” because I don’t read/listen to these books to help myself because I feel the need to correct or change something. But it’s always good to gain perspective and learn from others. This one is my favorite that I’ve come across. It’s to the point without all the fluff and for once, doesn’t have an ounce of religion or hippy crap. It’s also things I’ve heard before that I find to be true based off of experience and what I’ve witnessed. Definitely a book I’d gift to people!
challenging
reflective
fast-paced
It felt as though the entire point of this book was just to say that if your life isn't going the way you want it to that it's your fault and up to you to fix it. This book has a harsh perspective that we all just need to get out of our own heads and make something of our lives. Maybe I'm just not used to self help books, but I didn't really feel like we were given any tools to change anything. This was a frustrating read.
Gary wrote a pretty generic self help book in which he complains about generic self help books. This one has swears, so that makes it different. 2 stars + 1 for for the reminder to be proactive in life.
Someone told me the title sounds vulgar.
Maybe the person is right in that line of thinking.
But the first effect on the potential reader is to have an exciting look at the flap text of the book. Indeed the title could be a catcher of the interest of any potential reader.
But there is something slightly different maybe here, that drives you to get to know the deeper message of this book's content.
First, it reminds for instance of the famous aphorism by Buddha, “you are what you think”. Here the guiding idea, and in this line of thinking, is “you are what you do”.
This call for action to overcome hurdles is prominent; it further builds up as the reader progresses through the book. And in fact, there is no good argument to counter this position. Inner blockades, not useful thoughts need to be ultimately approached by some sort of action. If someone needs to move on or when the same person has to overcome unbearable situations, action is part of the recipe to apply.
There have been other books which promote this view and a similar starting point. A call for action is certainly a way of getting into movement. It is worth a try. Not doing anything is confirming and consolidating the inertia. The situation remains the same, only by chance it might change for the better, and in the worst scenario it will even deteriorate. So ‘just do it', at least give it a try. When you are stuck you have to get active and look for solutions. Sure.
What about thinking it over, planning, and finding out about the pros and cons of a shortlisted set of potential solutions? The book almost overemphasizes this “getting active” stance. What about those people who are stuck in a depressive mood, and actually lack this minimal energy to “do” something. Or worse even, get active one last time to finish the misery off once and for all?
Is the book targeted at the supposedly lazy or pampered people, the pity partying type of moaners, those people in the comfort zone, who wait for the solutions to be presented to them on a golden plate, optimally by others? The question is not really approached.
The message in the book is linear, straight forward: define yourself by doing something. Get started, try and find out. Succeed and enjoy the achievement. If you fail, try it again. All well as part of a sermon. Any guidance or coaching needed?
This book presents a challenging view, it intrigues all along because the message is clear, drives the mind, and feels like a command.
So far so good.
It is accepted that there is ultimately no alternative to trying something new when the old ways of doing, thinking, understanding, and knowing have failed to produce the results that are expected. Yes, action is the starting point, the essential ingredient to exploring new pathways, to further exploration and discovery of "new", to conquests of all sorts.
To turn a stone and see what it reveals you need to take physical action. True.
The book contains one of many lessons and recipes needed to manage life.
The affirmative message can intimidate at first but then tends to pull the reader along. A book for the night desk, not (yet) for the bookshelf.
Maybe the person is right in that line of thinking.
But the first effect on the potential reader is to have an exciting look at the flap text of the book. Indeed the title could be a catcher of the interest of any potential reader.
But there is something slightly different maybe here, that drives you to get to know the deeper message of this book's content.
First, it reminds for instance of the famous aphorism by Buddha, “you are what you think”. Here the guiding idea, and in this line of thinking, is “you are what you do”.
This call for action to overcome hurdles is prominent; it further builds up as the reader progresses through the book. And in fact, there is no good argument to counter this position. Inner blockades, not useful thoughts need to be ultimately approached by some sort of action. If someone needs to move on or when the same person has to overcome unbearable situations, action is part of the recipe to apply.
There have been other books which promote this view and a similar starting point. A call for action is certainly a way of getting into movement. It is worth a try. Not doing anything is confirming and consolidating the inertia. The situation remains the same, only by chance it might change for the better, and in the worst scenario it will even deteriorate. So ‘just do it', at least give it a try. When you are stuck you have to get active and look for solutions. Sure.
What about thinking it over, planning, and finding out about the pros and cons of a shortlisted set of potential solutions? The book almost overemphasizes this “getting active” stance. What about those people who are stuck in a depressive mood, and actually lack this minimal energy to “do” something. Or worse even, get active one last time to finish the misery off once and for all?
Is the book targeted at the supposedly lazy or pampered people, the pity partying type of moaners, those people in the comfort zone, who wait for the solutions to be presented to them on a golden plate, optimally by others? The question is not really approached.
The message in the book is linear, straight forward: define yourself by doing something. Get started, try and find out. Succeed and enjoy the achievement. If you fail, try it again. All well as part of a sermon. Any guidance or coaching needed?
This book presents a challenging view, it intrigues all along because the message is clear, drives the mind, and feels like a command.
So far so good.
It is accepted that there is ultimately no alternative to trying something new when the old ways of doing, thinking, understanding, and knowing have failed to produce the results that are expected. Yes, action is the starting point, the essential ingredient to exploring new pathways, to further exploration and discovery of "new", to conquests of all sorts.
To turn a stone and see what it reveals you need to take physical action. True.
The book contains one of many lessons and recipes needed to manage life.
The affirmative message can intimidate at first but then tends to pull the reader along. A book for the night desk, not (yet) for the bookshelf.
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Kinda expected more. It was presented well but then it's nothing I haven't heard before. Basically all the thinking means nothing without action. So stop worrying, thinking or planning and do! That's the main lesson, not groundbreaking I guess but also doesn't really solve the problem of overthinking.