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A review by ruchidas
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant
5.0
If you feel your life is in deep shit, please do yourselves a favor and read this nugget of a book.
"Love Yourself" is a simple, clear, crisp, tried-and-tested guide to what "The Secret" rambles on for 198 pages.
You won't find a word out of place in this book. Everything is worth your time. Every bit is a piece of practical advice from a man who has waded his way through shit with the easiest and the hardest thing you can do in your life: love yourself.
"Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply."
Hard it is. And that's why Ravikant has enlisted great insights from his journey of self-love. While you read this book, you must remember that this is a person who was feeling as crap as possible in life: career problems, friend problems, relationship problems. With the power of self-love, he still came through. That is not to say the book contains some magic formula that will miraculously solve all your problems in a day. Ravikant asks you to put efforts into loving yourself, practicing self-love so intensely that you get the clarity to seek to move forward in life.
Key is being open to loving ourselves. Once we do that, life casually takes care of the next steps.
I was personally enamored by his suggestions. By how simple his suggestions seemed. Daily meditation, practicing self-love expression in the mirror, practicing it day in and day out. Yet it is the simplest things we often overlook. Maybe, that's why we've got ourselves into so much crap.
Another reason this book touched me was that Ravikant said two exact things my therapist had told me last week.
1. "Whenever I notice fear in my mind, instead of pushing it aside or using it as fuel, I say to myself, "it's ok." A gentle yes to myself. To the moment, to what the mind is feeling."
2. After I gave that talk at Renaissance Weekend, one person said to me, "you must love others first. I respectfully disagree. It's like what they tell you during pre-flight instructions; in case of emergency, if oxygen masks drop from above, put yours on before you help someone else.
The coincidence was so eerie, I asked her if she had read the book. When she denied it, it strengthened my belief in the veracity of his words. This was my Saturday afternoon read. I feel this book has been the best I've read this year, next to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "We Should All Be Feminists", in terms of the value of time.
Reading the book is as good as not reading it for the sheer number of pages it spans across. Similarly, doing the things suggested in the book is as good as not doing them too. However, if you're trying a bunch of other things to heal your life, you might even give this book and its practices a shot.
"I think that instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.
Place our bet on it, then go all out. That's where magic happens. Where life blows away our expectations."
If you feel like you're stuck in life, here is a man bearing his outlook on how to find your way out. Sure there are plenty of ways to do it. But if you want the easiest, cheapest, most self-reliant path to a better life, "Love Yourself" is where you should start.
"Love Yourself" is a simple, clear, crisp, tried-and-tested guide to what "The Secret" rambles on for 198 pages.
You won't find a word out of place in this book. Everything is worth your time. Every bit is a piece of practical advice from a man who has waded his way through shit with the easiest and the hardest thing you can do in your life: love yourself.
"Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply."
Hard it is. And that's why Ravikant has enlisted great insights from his journey of self-love. While you read this book, you must remember that this is a person who was feeling as crap as possible in life: career problems, friend problems, relationship problems. With the power of self-love, he still came through. That is not to say the book contains some magic formula that will miraculously solve all your problems in a day. Ravikant asks you to put efforts into loving yourself, practicing self-love so intensely that you get the clarity to seek to move forward in life.
Key is being open to loving ourselves. Once we do that, life casually takes care of the next steps.
I was personally enamored by his suggestions. By how simple his suggestions seemed. Daily meditation, practicing self-love expression in the mirror, practicing it day in and day out. Yet it is the simplest things we often overlook. Maybe, that's why we've got ourselves into so much crap.
Another reason this book touched me was that Ravikant said two exact things my therapist had told me last week.
1. "Whenever I notice fear in my mind, instead of pushing it aside or using it as fuel, I say to myself, "it's ok." A gentle yes to myself. To the moment, to what the mind is feeling."
2. After I gave that talk at Renaissance Weekend, one person said to me, "you must love others first. I respectfully disagree. It's like what they tell you during pre-flight instructions; in case of emergency, if oxygen masks drop from above, put yours on before you help someone else.
The coincidence was so eerie, I asked her if she had read the book. When she denied it, it strengthened my belief in the veracity of his words. This was my Saturday afternoon read. I feel this book has been the best I've read this year, next to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "We Should All Be Feminists", in terms of the value of time.
Reading the book is as good as not reading it for the sheer number of pages it spans across. Similarly, doing the things suggested in the book is as good as not doing them too. However, if you're trying a bunch of other things to heal your life, you might even give this book and its practices a shot.
"I think that instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.
Place our bet on it, then go all out. That's where magic happens. Where life blows away our expectations."
If you feel like you're stuck in life, here is a man bearing his outlook on how to find your way out. Sure there are plenty of ways to do it. But if you want the easiest, cheapest, most self-reliant path to a better life, "Love Yourself" is where you should start.