A good thing about having a Kindle is that there are many, many free books with a prime membership.
I will admit the title of this book caught my eye... it's free so I started to read it.
I have read 64% of it, probably skipped about 20% of that.
On one hand, it is a book that is very appropriate and needed for the times. It would be a good book for essential reading by high school children and early adults.
It is essentially a book of advice for younger people, particularly addressing todays avalanche of problems our youth have - selfishness, loneliness and desperate attention seeking on social media. As well as constantly seeking moral superiority to inflate their otherwise vacuous existence.
I skipped a fair amount because it really doesn't apply to an older person. Sure there is good advice in this book, quite a lot, but when you are 58 - there are things you already know and fixed about yourself years ago.
At any rate - it would make a good gift for any younger folks you know..
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I will admit the title of this book caught my eye... it's free so I started to read it.
I have read 64% of it, probably skipped about 20% of that.
On one hand, it is a book that is very appropriate and needed for the times. It would be a good book for essential reading by high school children and early adults.
It is essentially a book of advice for younger people, particularly addressing todays avalanche of problems our youth have - selfishness, loneliness and desperate attention seeking on social media. As well as constantly seeking moral superiority to inflate their otherwise vacuous existence.
I skipped a fair amount because it really doesn't apply to an older person. Sure there is good advice in this book, quite a lot, but when you are 58 - there are things you already know and fixed about yourself years ago.
At any rate - it would make a good gift for any younger folks you know..
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“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it.
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