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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
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Enjoyable! A very practical approach to habit building. That being said, some of the tips may not work for neurodivergent and/or chronically ill folks. The best thing to do is take the advice you like and can follow, and leave the rest (without judging yourself for not being able to do it).
Edit: On 2nd reading, it's among the best self-help books I've read, and it's something I'll likely dip into many many times over the next few years. I'll leave up whatever my original review was trying to say as an example of dramatic irony. Poor young Jack didn't know he would one day eat Too Many Kebabs.
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I kind of want to rate the book lower, but it has a lot of practical value, at least in the first half of the book, and there isn't enough to complain about in this book specifically that isn't a judgment instead on the overall gripes I have with books designed as 'best-selling' nonfiction or self-help. Clear writes as if any hint of style in his prose would literally strip him of his name. Despite his mentioning one of his significant accomplishments being that he's a good writer, I could see the workshopped and formulaic pattern in every chapter of the most standard and banal kind of Ted-Talk Malcolm Gladwell self-help, which gets on my nerves so much because I can also kind of respect it. It is functional, if nothing else. Not praiseworthy, but not actively irritating. There's little harm in reiterating to oneself the most basic advice possible to make life a bit better.
Isn't that the fundamental reason Jordan Peterson is popular, because he tells untidy young men like me to clean our rooms, and we say 'wow I actually didn't think of that because I don't respect the people who typically tell me to do that'? So there's nothing wrong with this book, its aims and how it goes about itself. What worries me is when someone like Clear might be praised for his insight, for 'rendering a complex subject digestible and easy to understand', when really he's making an already easy to understand subject easy to understand, but presented in a format people who think themselves clever place more faith in authority toward. But that's people. I'm no less guilty, of course.
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I kind of want to rate the book lower, but it has a lot of practical value, at least in the first half of the book, and there isn't enough to complain about in this book specifically that isn't a judgment instead on the overall gripes I have with books designed as 'best-selling' nonfiction or self-help. Clear writes as if any hint of style in his prose would literally strip him of his name. Despite his mentioning one of his significant accomplishments being that he's a good writer, I could see the workshopped and formulaic pattern in every chapter of the most standard and banal kind of Ted-Talk Malcolm Gladwell self-help, which gets on my nerves so much because I can also kind of respect it. It is functional, if nothing else. Not praiseworthy, but not actively irritating. There's little harm in reiterating to oneself the most basic advice possible to make life a bit better.
Isn't that the fundamental reason Jordan Peterson is popular, because he tells untidy young men like me to clean our rooms, and we say 'wow I actually didn't think of that because I don't respect the people who typically tell me to do that'? So there's nothing wrong with this book, its aims and how it goes about itself. What worries me is when someone like Clear might be praised for his insight, for 'rendering a complex subject digestible and easy to understand', when really he's making an already easy to understand subject easy to understand, but presented in a format people who think themselves clever place more faith in authority toward. But that's people. I'm no less guilty, of course.
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Now that I saw the photo of the author I feel more validated in what I am about to write.
This book felt very male forward, and when we talked about negative habits the pronouns were her. Also highlighting men almost through the whole book instead of mixing. I couldn't believe the book was written in 2018 with the amount of obesity talk there was. Obesity this obesity that, he could have just talked about over eating, people who work out also over eat not just "obese people". Those parts of this book made me so angry. While there are some really good concepts the book was extremely repetitive the whole way through. I read the 7 habits by Covey years ago in college and that one was much more enjoyable. Also a lot of his suggestions needs money, like having separate spaces for all your things. I live in apartment post covid, where my desk where I work is in my living room since I have no other room. Or a gym membership, for some that is not in the budget (like mine). Wouldn't read it again, did get some good ideas but I really don't have negative habits to kill (like drinking and smoking) but I will work on talking less and listening more.
This book felt very male forward, and when we talked about negative habits the pronouns were her. Also highlighting men almost through the whole book instead of mixing. I couldn't believe the book was written in 2018 with the amount of obesity talk there was. Obesity this obesity that, he could have just talked about over eating, people who work out also over eat not just "obese people". Those parts of this book made me so angry. While there are some really good concepts the book was extremely repetitive the whole way through. I read the 7 habits by Covey years ago in college and that one was much more enjoyable. Also a lot of his suggestions needs money, like having separate spaces for all your things. I live in apartment post covid, where my desk where I work is in my living room since I have no other room. Or a gym membership, for some that is not in the budget (like mine). Wouldn't read it again, did get some good ideas but I really don't have negative habits to kill (like drinking and smoking) but I will work on talking less and listening more.
challenging
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informative
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informative
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medium-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced