Matt J

Great book, bad audiobook

Revisado: 04-20-25

The AI reader constantly mispronounces things and gets the intonation wrong. Some chapters have over 2 minutes of reading out URLs letter by letter, which massively interrupts the flow.

However the content is great, but you are better off getting the Kindle or physical book (especially since there are many charts referenced which are not provided with the audiobook).

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How to suck all the fun out of horror

Revisado: 03-19-25

This dissects all horror as just metaphors for social ills and political problems. Tedious and sucks the fun out of some films that are just fun, good scares. Ok, if you view everything through a lens of social justice, then you might like this. But if you enjoy horror as an entertaining art form, then skip this one.

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Most is amazing, but then it gets into race preferences

Revisado: 01-30-25

Some of the best work on storytelling available. Was enjoying it so much till they started bemoaning too much of a race being in the audience and clear preferences of certain races and backgrounds over others. It's a shame to alienate some of your biggest fans. Hope they change.

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Dry, academic, hard to get through

Revisado: 07-14-24

Love much of Orion's YouTube content, but man, I wish he had a better editor that would have encouraged him to do a more accessible version of this. It could have been a pop culture hit. But in this form, it will be a disappointment to anyone that does not want to think in terms of coefficients and ratios. The same points could be made in a way that isn't so tedious to listen to. I was falling asleep and had to listen at 3X speed to get through this. Shame, since I'm sure there's some great concepts buried in the academic word salad.

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Excellent for American audience

Revisado: 06-02-24

Great stuff, but definitely for an American audience. Some of the dialogue is too cheesy to actually use in many other regions. But overall excellent.

I do wish his challenge to overcome rejection was something better than asking for a discount on a coffee. To just do something awkward and ineffective for practice seems odd when there are many other challenges that are more natural and win-win. I did door to door sales for a couple years and getting over rejection is huge, but the key is to believe in what you're selling and finding a good fit with the person you are presenting to. An assignment that is just being weird doesn't instill confidence that further exercises will be worthwhile. Everything else in the book is good, but I would say, don't think you need to do win-lose exercises. Win-win is more effective.

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Repetitive, female focused (which is great if female)

Revisado: 02-23-24

Some good advice repeated over and over and over. The advice is mostly for females and while well intentioned, just not effective for men in many situations. Was hoping this was more science focused but it's like a very long blog post for a high-end woman's magazine.

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Solid advice

Revisado: 12-23-23

If you're already familiar with these concepts, it is not ground breaking, but I found it to be a solid concise review that I appreciated.

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Lovely guy, needs serious editing

Revisado: 11-25-23

Got this since I saw a great interview with the author. I don't regret the purchase, but man, this was hard to get through. Ended up listening at 3.5 speed since I was hoping it would eventually get to the points and interesting stories of people taking the pathless path. But it's mostly just a lot of random stories from his career and life, which I'm sure are interesting to him and his friends, but I wasn't expecting a memoir. Was really expecting something with clear principles and stories from his audience that illustrate the points. I'm giving it 3 stars since he seems like a great guy, but honestly the short interview I watched of him was better value for my time.

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New Age Mush

Revisado: 11-06-23

Wish I could get my money and time back on this. There's a lot of sophisticated hand-waving and "elite spirituality" which is ultimately just mushy thinking. This is the Walmart version of enlightenment. Much better books out there without the pretentiousness.

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Fascinating but very repetitive

Revisado: 11-03-23

Fascinating look into this world, but it told essentially the same stories over and over with slight variations. The same points are also made over and over. I suppose that makes for good entertainment, but if you just want the key points it's a far too laborious.

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