Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by mandabelle
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop
1.0
Complete and utter garbage.
I am so glad I didn’t buy this book and just borrowed it from the library instead. When I first started listening to the audio version of this book, I was excited and eager to learn something new. But this isn’t new. It’s completely recycled. And not only that, the messages Gary John Bishop is regurgitating are some of the most garbage personal improvement messages out there. As others have pointed out, Mr. Bishop has some seriously privileged blinders on and completely ignores marginalized populations. These are the messages as I heard them:
It doesn’t matter how much abuse you’ve suffered.
If you can’t attain your wildest dreams, it’s your own fault.
Give it your all, but expect nothing.
You deserve nothing.
You’re going to die.
You’re a fuck up. Stop it.
Don’t have enough money? Let me sell you a program I made!
Mr. Bishop is not a therapist. He is a motivational speaker with, from what I could find online, zero mental health training. He’s just another shill trying to make a buck from the natural human desire to improve ourselves.
I am so glad I didn’t buy this book and just borrowed it from the library instead. When I first started listening to the audio version of this book, I was excited and eager to learn something new. But this isn’t new. It’s completely recycled. And not only that, the messages Gary John Bishop is regurgitating are some of the most garbage personal improvement messages out there. As others have pointed out, Mr. Bishop has some seriously privileged blinders on and completely ignores marginalized populations. These are the messages as I heard them:
It doesn’t matter how much abuse you’ve suffered.
If you can’t attain your wildest dreams, it’s your own fault.
Give it your all, but expect nothing.
You deserve nothing.
You’re going to die.
You’re a fuck up. Stop it.
Don’t have enough money? Let me sell you a program I made!
Mr. Bishop is not a therapist. He is a motivational speaker with, from what I could find online, zero mental health training. He’s just another shill trying to make a buck from the natural human desire to improve ourselves.