Unlearn

The author is not wrong about what he has written, but it is written in a very tiresome way. It is structured as 101 “chapters” which might reduce to maybe 10 themes. There is a lot of staggered repetition almost all of which are platitudes you might find in “feel-good” forwards. In fact, many of the titles are just slightly varying and the content is reworded with more examples, more assertions, and a stronger tone.

This book can be read as someone giving you advice but not explaining why. I suppose it could work for people who know the author from their other work. I didn't and it seemed weird to me to read advice without any explanation. Again, I agree with the advice having read other books on those topics where the explanation is logical and even scientifically studied. Over here, I am just supposed to listen to the author.

I could only read the first few chapters before the repetition started annoying me. Eventually, I only skimmed chapters reading the highlights, bold text, and a few random paragraphs. There are insights buried in the fluff but they are few and far between. Then again, one person's insights may be other person's platitudes.