Don't Believe Everything You Think

This was marketed as THE book for overthinkers. As an overthinker, I obviously was interested. I chose the audible version because self help books are easier for me to “want” to read by audio.

Overall this was an okay book. I appreciate that there is a workbook and there are diagrams and prompts throughout. All helpful things. However, I feel like the main point of the book is “the solution to overthinking is to not think about your thoughts”. And while he does go a little deeper into this (a little, not much), I feel like it needed some more depth to it, if that was the actual point.

It felt like me saying “oh my gosh I'm so stressed” and someone saying “well stop stressing” ???

Again, there were some valid and helpful quotes, just overall, I needed more depth. And maybe that's because I'm an overthinker. LOL.

Lastly, would I recommend this book to others? Well, that depends on the type of reader you are. If you are the type of reader who likes to dive deep and really focus on the book and reads between the lines, then no. I don't think you'd get what you're looking for. However, if you are a surface level reader and can skim through and get your info, then yes. This may be a great book for you.

Not scientific. Religious. Poorly written. However, I do like how he compares a brain to a bowl of mud.

Not entirely a bad read, but I struggled to connect with the spiritual aspects

Simple quick little book, like the abridged power of now but i found it much easier to read. The entire plot can be summed up by this Sam Harris quote I'll butcher: “it's impossible to control your thoughts because controlling your thoughts would require you to think your thoughts before you have them; therefore you are not your thoughts but rather your thoughts are something that happen TO you”