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brenticus 's review for:
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
by Neil Pasricha
This... was not a good listen. The best advice in this book comes in the form of watered down sentiments better expressed in any number of other fairly generic self-help books, except that the advice is tinged by Neil's own weirdly egotistic and largely unhelpful anecdotes from his own life.
The worst advice in the book was probably the bit talking about how a great way to get things done is to give yourself less time to do it. Not that the advice itself is that horrific, but his anecdote is talking about how inspired he was by the seriously concerning and stress-inducing work practices put in place by some software company executive he was talking to. His story gave me flashbacks to my last job which I specifically quit because of how often we'd get hammered by unreasonable and stressful deadlines and how it was affecting my mental health. It was very much advice I could see coming from a Walmart executive, and I pretty much mean that in the worst way possible.
And don't even get me started on that bloody equation in the title. If you want nothing then isn't having everything basically meaningless? The answer is yes, like a lot of the advice in this book.
The worst advice in the book was probably the bit talking about how a great way to get things done is to give yourself less time to do it. Not that the advice itself is that horrific, but his anecdote is talking about how inspired he was by the seriously concerning and stress-inducing work practices put in place by some software company executive he was talking to. His story gave me flashbacks to my last job which I specifically quit because of how often we'd get hammered by unreasonable and stressful deadlines and how it was affecting my mental health. It was very much advice I could see coming from a Walmart executive, and I pretty much mean that in the worst way possible.
And don't even get me started on that bloody equation in the title. If you want nothing then isn't having everything basically meaningless? The answer is yes, like a lot of the advice in this book.