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A review by ginalucia
Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love. by Beth Kempton
2.0
The book in 3 sentences/summary:
Do what you love and you’ll be happy
Follow the 8 freedom keys to achieve this
Take chances and follow your passion
My impressions:
I’m not convinced by Freedom Seeker, as a book it falls flat in a few key areas.
It tries to tackle a very vague topic like freedom in so many different ways that it feels rushed, unorganised and lacking in substance.
The author frequently makes up words or phrases like ‘freedom keys’, ‘freedom seekers’ and ‘kindrovert’. By doing this, she removes you from the message or the lesson and makes it less convincing.
It reads as quite self-indulgent I’m sorry to say. She tells a lot of her own stories which take up perhaps 70-80% of the book. Leaving very little room for practice advice and actually just work to add more pages to the book.
I’m sad to say that Freedom Seeker was a disappointment. It’s filled with surface-level advice which fails to go deep into important topics and instead leaves you feeling no better off having read it.
Should you read it? (who would benefit from this):
I wouldn’t recommend this book to you unless you’re particularly interested in reading a few motivational stories and you’re not interested in the reality of those stories.
What I personally got from the book:
I got one piece of practical advice from the book which I will put into practice and that’s to create a ‘flight fund’. This fund, or pot of money, is something you add to over time and set aside on the off chance that one day, you might want to change tact completely and turn your life into something different. That fund would allow you to do it.
Do what you love and you’ll be happy
Follow the 8 freedom keys to achieve this
Take chances and follow your passion
My impressions:
I’m not convinced by Freedom Seeker, as a book it falls flat in a few key areas.
It tries to tackle a very vague topic like freedom in so many different ways that it feels rushed, unorganised and lacking in substance.
The author frequently makes up words or phrases like ‘freedom keys’, ‘freedom seekers’ and ‘kindrovert’. By doing this, she removes you from the message or the lesson and makes it less convincing.
It reads as quite self-indulgent I’m sorry to say. She tells a lot of her own stories which take up perhaps 70-80% of the book. Leaving very little room for practice advice and actually just work to add more pages to the book.
I’m sad to say that Freedom Seeker was a disappointment. It’s filled with surface-level advice which fails to go deep into important topics and instead leaves you feeling no better off having read it.
Should you read it? (who would benefit from this):
I wouldn’t recommend this book to you unless you’re particularly interested in reading a few motivational stories and you’re not interested in the reality of those stories.
What I personally got from the book:
I got one piece of practical advice from the book which I will put into practice and that’s to create a ‘flight fund’. This fund, or pot of money, is something you add to over time and set aside on the off chance that one day, you might want to change tact completely and turn your life into something different. That fund would allow you to do it.