Michael

Lacks research

Revisado: 07-07-22

This book is mostly just an overview of world economics over the past century. It just sprinkles in FUD to get readers who believe in eminent global collapse. I say this because 1) FUD is everywhere right now and many believe we are headed to a greater recession than the last, and 2) because the author clearly didn't do research.

Concerning the GameStop stock pump, he calls the buyers "stupid" and "gamers", as if people bought it because they like games at all (they trapped a hedge fund and won). Concerning crypto, he says it has no use which is obviously untrue if you have ever looked up crypto and have used technology. He also blames the last housing crash on subprime mortgages when they only made up a fraction of buyers (look it up, investors were the real problem). Clearly he knows a lot of economic history but little of recent events.

Those facts lead me to believe that he wanted to write a book simply for money, is highly knowledgeable of the history of economics, and knows about the doom and gloom everywhere ever since the pandemic arrived. It's still very insightful and paints the bigger picture well. But I'm disappointed now because if he has current events wrong, I don't know what else he has wrong that I don't know about.

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Pretty much Pointless

Revisado: 10-25-21

The book had nothing to do with the title at all - I should've checked reviews before purchasing. The point the first 10 chapters make is that people over embellish their lives stories to the point where it's basically just lies. Not news to me. The other point is that love can look like anything, and that rather than love happening to people, people happen to love. That's it, that's all there is to it. Read for entertainment purposes only. She also talks about her ex a ton more than her current husband and also mentions having an open relationship. I can't help but wonder that maybe her problem before was her situation and not the relationship. Anyway, none of my business really.

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Questionable on Target Audience

Revisado: 05-22-21

Now that I've listened to the whole book, I can strongly recommend it. This book and Models by Mark Manson are all you really need to read. This book started off a bit week (stated in the initial review) but the advice got a lot better later in the book. Glad I picked it up.

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The book gives very basic advice, basically take care of yourself. It seems to be targeted toward guys who have no idea what women - and people in general - value in men. But then it goes on to give advice like "travel the world" and "go to the best college you can" which is overreaching for people getting on their feet, so to speak.

The biggest problem with the advice in this book though, is how it totally ignores expenses. It says to take a gap year after high school without even considering scholarships that might be lost that way. It also says travel the world without even considering the cost (inb4 "southeast Asia"). It says to take low paying jobs to help build some skills, which is not a good way to build up wealth for college or travel. Maybe the intention was to say to do these things separately, in which case, it's not bad advice.

It recommends you to the best school you get admitted into, specifically a big name school like Stanford (which one author attended) which is incredibly expensive and reckless - as you can fail out if you tested a little too high for your ability (sprint vs marathon).

Unrelated, but college entrance tests are very formulaic and you can increase your results dramatically by taking it 2 or 3 times (after studying it's formula). Surprised this advice was not given. I recommend it only for getting scholarships, not to get into schools you might not be able to handle (I did and had to transfer schools to save my sanity, and it cost me some scholarships).

The main reason for the low rating is because it dissed my school, calling it marginal. It's known to be the best school for Social Mobility (aka financial mobility) and my major used many of the same notes and textbooks as MIT and Princeton. I knew 3 graduates who ended up working at Google. Just because it's a relatively small, not well known university, doesn't make it marginal. This book is pretty recent, 2015, so the author's just didn't do any lookup. But my main theory is that since one Author works at UNM, it was said out of rivalry, being that UNM and NMSU are rivals.

Overall, the book gives improbable advice that ignores financial status and circumstance. The book is totally oblivious to finance really. I'm assuming they must have grown up in rich households.

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