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This book had some really good, really interesting nuggets in it that I felt were incredibly helpful. However, I feel this could have been a magazine article instead of a full on book. Why? There is so much rah-rah bullshit, repeating of phrases, and "I'm your friend" crap that it becomes obnoxious.
The real sticker for me though is that Hollis is a complete hypocrite. Near the end she tells a small anectdote of a time in Girl Scout camp when she was "ignorant" and used cultural appropriation to dress as a Native American. She writes about this as if she knows better, yet she uses "tribe" continually throughout the book to describe the people she works with, her followers, and her friends. Either Hollis really has never truly taken the time to educate herself about cultural appropriation and diversity, or she is so comcerned with appealing to her Coachella-going, white, female audience that she doesn't care she is using this inappropriate term.
While little nuggets stuck out and there were one or two good exercises, overall there are much better self-help books out there. I much prefer Brene Brown or Gretchen Rubin, or any of the other dozens of female authors who have well-written and well-researched books out there that can help you achieve greatness without the bullshit.
The real sticker for me though is that Hollis is a complete hypocrite. Near the end she tells a small anectdote of a time in Girl Scout camp when she was "ignorant" and used cultural appropriation to dress as a Native American. She writes about this as if she knows better, yet she uses "tribe" continually throughout the book to describe the people she works with, her followers, and her friends. Either Hollis really has never truly taken the time to educate herself about cultural appropriation and diversity, or she is so comcerned with appealing to her Coachella-going, white, female audience that she doesn't care she is using this inappropriate term.
While little nuggets stuck out and there were one or two good exercises, overall there are much better self-help books out there. I much prefer Brene Brown or Gretchen Rubin, or any of the other dozens of female authors who have well-written and well-researched books out there that can help you achieve greatness without the bullshit.