Well I do love a good thought-provoking book, and parts of this book were certainly that.



There has got to be a certain irony though about writing the first chapter of your book about having 'enough information' (with the theme about not needing to have too much information) and then bombarding readers/waffling on (in my opinion) with an excess of information in the rest of your book. So I took the author's message to heart and skipped through parts of the book because I didn't need an overwhelm

Well I do love a good thought-provoking book, and parts of this book were certainly that.



There has got to be a certain irony though about writing the first chapter of your book about having 'enough information' (with the theme about not needing to have too much information) and then bombarding readers/waffling on (in my opinion) with an excess of information in the rest of your book. So I took the author's message to heart and skipped through parts of the book because I didn't need an overwhelm of information.



I'm not entirely sure what to make of this book as a whole, because I thought he made some great points and some of it was quite well-written. Some things I completely agree with, e.g. he was saying about how we're always searching for more and we never really appreciate all the things we have. Well I suppose that's his main point of the book. But large parts of the book had a rather depressing feel, which despite (I imagine) being unintentional, it still just felt a bit like a long list of things which are wrong with society today. Not that I'm naive enough to think that all he was saying isn't necessarily true, but I don't think the book would particularly inspire you to change or do anything differently unless you ignored/didn't read part of what was written and just picked out the key parts, like I did.



But maybe the book wasn't trying to inspire change, I mean there was a whole chapter on having enough self-growth, which I was not a fan of. Not that I outright disagreed with all his points, but I disagree with the notion of not ever striving to do better or to learn new things. Just because you want to learn how to do something better doesn't mean that you consider yourself not to be enough in the first place, and I think there is most definitely a balance to be made between the two. Surely life must be so mundane and depressing if you never try to do anything new, never learn a new skill, never push yourself out of your comfort zone, visit new places?



I'm not sure if I would recommend this book or not. I think it has some good gems of wisdom in but I'm not sure if it's worth sifting through the rest of the information to get to it. Also I can't help thinking that to properly appreciate said gems you'd probably have to know what they are in the first place to be able to find them, and then what would be the point of reading the book?



Thinking about it, I'm not actually sure how much I gained from reading this book, other than more confirmation of what I think anyway, both in what I agree and disagree with in his writing.