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A review by k8walker
The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters
2.0
2 stars, but only just. I’m really disappointed - after hearing about this book (and the raving reviews) from a colleague - I was really looking forward to this read and the potential insights it may provide. However, I found this to be over-simplification on almost every page, bordering on several occasions as patronising e.g. “you can sit back if it is too hard.” Spouting cliches such as “everything changes”, “nothing is black and white”. Maybe I’m cynical but I don’t think this is what most people are seeking/expecting when reading the blurb.
Although it’s important to reinforce the message that acting purely based on emotion isn’t effective or productive, this book repeated over and over - in a very bizarre, complicated entanglement of solar system and jungle metaphors - to essentially ignore emotion, and to note that they are catastrophic to everything we do. Which simply isn’t true.
There were some handy points that could be utilised in day to day life, but very few.
Although it’s important to reinforce the message that acting purely based on emotion isn’t effective or productive, this book repeated over and over - in a very bizarre, complicated entanglement of solar system and jungle metaphors - to essentially ignore emotion, and to note that they are catastrophic to everything we do. Which simply isn’t true.
There were some handy points that could be utilised in day to day life, but very few.