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She can’t be serious.
Reading this was a harrowing experience. I initially started it in a kind of blind stupor - being promised incredible, life-altering possibilities, all of my wildest dreams come true - all with the simple practice of gratitude. She punctuates every chapter with quotations from the world’s most highly successful, motivational figures who have done well in their lives, so much so that I very narrowly missed that this is nuts! By the fourth chapter or so, I started to feel sick. Gratitude is a cornerstone of basic human decency. It is a profound, life-enhancing way of experiencing the world, and it can feel like magic, but is very importantly not magic itself.
I feel it is horrifically irresponsible, bordering on immoral, to say that all of a person’s circumstances can be changed simply through the act of gratitude. I don’t mean to say that being thankful isn’t important or life-affirming, but that one’s material reality is often not directly influenced by one’s capacity for gratitude. There is a fine line in distinguishing these things, and she crosses it, and runs a couple miles. For instance, what is a decent person to make of this:
“If enough people felt gratitude for food and water, it would actually help the people who are starving and in great need. By the law of the attraction [sic], and Newton’s law of action and reaction, the action of mass gratitude must produce an equal mass reaction, which would change the circumstances of scarcity of food and water for everyone on the planet.”
Perhaps it is true that a planet-wide adoption of unyielding gratitude would fix nearly every starving community, but her careless framing of the situation, along with the delusional claims of “magicalness” end up blaming the starving for their own empty stomachs.
Furthermore, it is clear by about the fifth chapter or so that there are only a handful of ideas holding this book together, and she stretches them past their breaking point. Repeating over and again the same bullshit about how gratitude will magically pull your dream life out of her ass, and it becomes clear that this is just another blind cash-grab of a self-help book. This magical concept of gratitude that she will not stop butchering is her means of quickly making a pay-day through promising whatever it is you want, no care for the genuinely needy, nor any sincere attempt at gratitude.
Or maybe she is simply one of the most blissfully, delusional people to have made it to this green earth.
Reading this was a harrowing experience. I initially started it in a kind of blind stupor - being promised incredible, life-altering possibilities, all of my wildest dreams come true - all with the simple practice of gratitude. She punctuates every chapter with quotations from the world’s most highly successful, motivational figures who have done well in their lives, so much so that I very narrowly missed that this is nuts! By the fourth chapter or so, I started to feel sick. Gratitude is a cornerstone of basic human decency. It is a profound, life-enhancing way of experiencing the world, and it can feel like magic, but is very importantly not magic itself.
I feel it is horrifically irresponsible, bordering on immoral, to say that all of a person’s circumstances can be changed simply through the act of gratitude. I don’t mean to say that being thankful isn’t important or life-affirming, but that one’s material reality is often not directly influenced by one’s capacity for gratitude. There is a fine line in distinguishing these things, and she crosses it, and runs a couple miles. For instance, what is a decent person to make of this:
“If enough people felt gratitude for food and water, it would actually help the people who are starving and in great need. By the law of the attraction [sic], and Newton’s law of action and reaction, the action of mass gratitude must produce an equal mass reaction, which would change the circumstances of scarcity of food and water for everyone on the planet.”
Perhaps it is true that a planet-wide adoption of unyielding gratitude would fix nearly every starving community, but her careless framing of the situation, along with the delusional claims of “magicalness” end up blaming the starving for their own empty stomachs.
Furthermore, it is clear by about the fifth chapter or so that there are only a handful of ideas holding this book together, and she stretches them past their breaking point. Repeating over and again the same bullshit about how gratitude will magically pull your dream life out of her ass, and it becomes clear that this is just another blind cash-grab of a self-help book. This magical concept of gratitude that she will not stop butchering is her means of quickly making a pay-day through promising whatever it is you want, no care for the genuinely needy, nor any sincere attempt at gratitude.
Or maybe she is simply one of the most blissfully, delusional people to have made it to this green earth.