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A review by tc_booksandmore
How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever's Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things by Kate Williams
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Thank you to Macmillan Audio for my audio review copy. My opinions are my own.
Having the author narrate their own books sometimes doesn't it work, but I have to say that this time it worked really well. Kate is personable, informative, and real. In listening to Kate talk about her life and all the traps that she found herself in, really resonated with me, especially since she and I are the same age, and were doing some of the same things at the same time. I appreciate her thoughts about the hustle culture, and the constant pressure to go, go, go, can't take a break because you have to be productive for the full time you're on the planet.
The deeply ingrained need to be productive comes at a very heavy cost, we are constantly burned out, fried to a crispy crackly crunch. But god forbid that we take a break to relax... she talks about the type A driven personality and the curated views of influencers, the pressures to belong, the pressures to be the perfect parent, and what does it mean to be happy. I kept pausing to examine what my thoughts were, because I recognized myself in the descriptions that she gave, down to the post partum depression, the undiagnosed ADHD, and the desire to be the perfect parent (hint - I am decidedly not a perfect parent).
I highly recommend this for the elder millennials, not for a nostalgia look back at the past, but for the acknowledgement of what we have gone through and what we can do (or not do) going forward to break some of the destructive cycles that we are caught in.
Having the author narrate their own books sometimes doesn't it work, but I have to say that this time it worked really well. Kate is personable, informative, and real. In listening to Kate talk about her life and all the traps that she found herself in, really resonated with me, especially since she and I are the same age, and were doing some of the same things at the same time. I appreciate her thoughts about the hustle culture, and the constant pressure to go, go, go, can't take a break because you have to be productive for the full time you're on the planet.
The deeply ingrained need to be productive comes at a very heavy cost, we are constantly burned out, fried to a crispy crackly crunch. But god forbid that we take a break to relax... she talks about the type A driven personality and the curated views of influencers, the pressures to belong, the pressures to be the perfect parent, and what does it mean to be happy. I kept pausing to examine what my thoughts were, because I recognized myself in the descriptions that she gave, down to the post partum depression, the undiagnosed ADHD, and the desire to be the perfect parent (hint - I am decidedly not a perfect parent).
I highly recommend this for the elder millennials, not for a nostalgia look back at the past, but for the acknowledgement of what we have gone through and what we can do (or not do) going forward to break some of the destructive cycles that we are caught in.