Post by 4aapl on May 31, 2022 16:45:30 GMT -8
I'm halfway through this one, and this might be the best of the 3 "self-help" type books I've just read.
The first chapter is all fuckity fuck fuck and again fuck. Maybe he wrote it that way to justify the title? The only real takeaway is to not care about most things, but care for something. Otherwise you are a sociopath, and that's bad.
The next few chapters are just about figuring things out, what you should care about, and why, based on you. It's flavor is more like JD's posts, writing in a way that brings things down a few levels, often getting past the preconceived nothings and saying what really needs to be said. Sometimes I like that, without being over the top just to be over the top.
OTOH, the first chapter was pushing it just to push it. Similar to seeing the play "Avenue Q", where many of the things were good, but they pushed it past the point of making a point just to make it edgy.
FWIW, it's interesting to see someone roughly a decade younger than me make generalizations on the even younger generation and how things are changing and how they should be. I'm maybe only at middle ages, and I'd think that making the same generalizations about younger folk are at least occasionally scoffed at by those 1-3 decades older than me. Sorta like when my son gets mad that his sisters that are 2 and 4 years younger than him have less homework, or "don't know anything". Yeah. Gotcha!
That said, it's a good read so far, and it seems like it must have been reviewed somewhere recently. I grabbed it just because the library set it out on a display and I was feeling edgy. But now it says 8 people have it on hold, and they are ordering new copies, all on a 2016 book.
It seems to be a fun book, while also helping reset your baseline. These last 5 chapters look to be mostly about things that I have tried to reset myself, such as realizing that none of us are perfect and we all have problems, even if they are different. And on the same line, no one is perfect at everything. We'll see how it goes.
The first chapter is all fuckity fuck fuck and again fuck. Maybe he wrote it that way to justify the title? The only real takeaway is to not care about most things, but care for something. Otherwise you are a sociopath, and that's bad.
The next few chapters are just about figuring things out, what you should care about, and why, based on you. It's flavor is more like JD's posts, writing in a way that brings things down a few levels, often getting past the preconceived nothings and saying what really needs to be said. Sometimes I like that, without being over the top just to be over the top.
OTOH, the first chapter was pushing it just to push it. Similar to seeing the play "Avenue Q", where many of the things were good, but they pushed it past the point of making a point just to make it edgy.
FWIW, it's interesting to see someone roughly a decade younger than me make generalizations on the even younger generation and how things are changing and how they should be. I'm maybe only at middle ages, and I'd think that making the same generalizations about younger folk are at least occasionally scoffed at by those 1-3 decades older than me. Sorta like when my son gets mad that his sisters that are 2 and 4 years younger than him have less homework, or "don't know anything". Yeah. Gotcha!
That said, it's a good read so far, and it seems like it must have been reviewed somewhere recently. I grabbed it just because the library set it out on a display and I was feeling edgy. But now it says 8 people have it on hold, and they are ordering new copies, all on a 2016 book.
It seems to be a fun book, while also helping reset your baseline. These last 5 chapters look to be mostly about things that I have tried to reset myself, such as realizing that none of us are perfect and we all have problems, even if they are different. And on the same line, no one is perfect at everything. We'll see how it goes.