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This was a vaguely encouraging audiobook. Elrod has been through a few rock-bottoms in his life, and he writes about overcoming obstacles such as surviving a fatal car crash at age 20 and coming back to life after being clinically dead for 6 minutes. He was told he would never walk again, but he bounced back and made a recovery. There was quite a bit of his backstory, and he said some inspiring and helpful things about habit building and changing your life. His claim/message is that if you wake up a couple of hours early each day and follow the “miracle morning” routine, your life can be transformed. I agree (to some extent). Some of the things to do in the miracle morning include drinking water, meditation, self-affirmation, journaling, exercise, drinking a superfood smoothie, and going for a run – all before 8am, before you start your workday. It basically sounds like a massive combination of all the cliché personal development tools to maximise your physical and spiritual well-being. The idea is to work on self-development before the day starts, because otherwise you will come up with excuses not to find time to do those things. I think it’s actually really smart.
Buuut, I have a few big issues with this book. There was an accumulation of dubious things Elrod said that sounded a bit pseudo-science or like new age bs. For example: You only need as much sleep as you psychologically tell yourself is necessary. Apparently if you can convince yourself that your body only needs 4 hours of sleep to function, then that’s all it needs to stay healthy. The book was riddled with “proven facts” like this. Most of the self-help things sounded dull and generic (do more exercise, drink water, yoga). I also didn’t like Elrod’s elitist approach, like how you can be better than 95% of the population who will never get a 10/10 score in their health, relationships, and finances. But perhaps the most concerning declaration he made was that [trigger warning] “suicide is one of the most selfish decisions someone can make”, which is unnecessarily demeaning to people struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. While the miracle morning could be beneficial for some people, I don’t think it can magically cure everyone’s mental illnesses. Elrod quotes a lot of people in his book, but some of them are just plain weird. “You can learn more in an hour of silence than you can in a year of reading books”, which is nonsense - unless I’m reading Hal Elrod books.
Buuut, I have a few big issues with this book. There was an accumulation of dubious things Elrod said that sounded a bit pseudo-science or like new age bs. For example: You only need as much sleep as you psychologically tell yourself is necessary. Apparently if you can convince yourself that your body only needs 4 hours of sleep to function, then that’s all it needs to stay healthy. The book was riddled with “proven facts” like this. Most of the self-help things sounded dull and generic (do more exercise, drink water, yoga). I also didn’t like Elrod’s elitist approach, like how you can be better than 95% of the population who will never get a 10/10 score in their health, relationships, and finances. But perhaps the most concerning declaration he made was that [trigger warning] “suicide is one of the most selfish decisions someone can make”, which is unnecessarily demeaning to people struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. While the miracle morning could be beneficial for some people, I don’t think it can magically cure everyone’s mental illnesses. Elrod quotes a lot of people in his book, but some of them are just plain weird. “You can learn more in an hour of silence than you can in a year of reading books”, which is nonsense - unless I’m reading Hal Elrod books.