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floodfish 's review for:
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
by Martha N. Beck
For better or worse, my life has gotten to a place where I'm reading books like this.
This book seems more useful for people like the author, whose lives bounce them from catalytic crisis to catalytic crisis. Less obviously useful for an aimless slow-burner like me.
The book also leaves repeated bitter and sour tastes with its emphasis on getting rich (via a bootstrappy Reaganomic approach no less), blind faith in chain-letters and ESP, complete lack of non-anecdotal sources/substantiation, and general persistent anti-scientific attitude (especially depressing given how Harvarded-up Beck can't stop bragging she is).
Ultimately just too long and the goofy parts are super goofy. Still helpful in getting to think about the issues and problems defined. And I can see how it might be more directly helpful to someone with the right situation and mindset.
This book seems more useful for people like the author, whose lives bounce them from catalytic crisis to catalytic crisis. Less obviously useful for an aimless slow-burner like me.
The book also leaves repeated bitter and sour tastes with its emphasis on getting rich (via a bootstrappy Reaganomic approach no less), blind faith in chain-letters and ESP, complete lack of non-anecdotal sources/substantiation, and general persistent anti-scientific attitude (especially depressing given how Harvarded-up Beck can't stop bragging she is).
Ultimately just too long and the goofy parts are super goofy. Still helpful in getting to think about the issues and problems defined. And I can see how it might be more directly helpful to someone with the right situation and mindset.