The Gratitude Project

Didn't love this one. I found it dry and boring. Read more like a research paper than the self-help book I was expecting from the cover and description.

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We chose this book for our book club, and I made it further in the book than anyone else. The book is composed of short segments by various authors. Everyone in my book club was primed to enjoy this book and get something from it. However, it was rare that any of the segments had anything compelling to offer in terms of results, data, or inspiration for personal practice. Several studies in the first fifty pages seemed particularly questionable to me and to others in my book club. Perhaps the studies were well done, but the way the studies were written about didn't provide enough evidence to clarify that. In fact, a little over fifty pages in, there is a section that notes other studies have not found the same benefits/impacts.

This book would have benefited greatly from a designer and one editor to tie everything together, make study results easier to understand and remember, and make the book more pleasant to read.