Marcelo Henrique

This book was a good surprise

Revisado: 02-22-16

There are a lot of books out there that are a huge success but doesn't have much to offer in terms of things you can use in your life. When you read them, the ideas make sense, but after you close you usually forget about what you read.

Other books start great with first or second chapters that are great but at the beginning of the third chapter everything goes downhill (I'm looking at you "The Power of Habit").

This is not the case with this book. Every chapter have something new and interesting to offer. After the first ten minutes the book started to change my perspective on why we think and act in a certain way and helped me to understand why sometimes we do things that doesn't make a lot of sense. Most of self help books can't do that. But I'm not sure if this book can be defined as "self-help" because it's so well researched that I think it would be offensive. There's no magic or mambo jambo, just a lot of research condensed in a simple way.

The only issue I have with this book is the last chapter. It's a good take on creativity but it goes on and on telling details of stories that doesn't add anything to the point the author is trying to make.

This book even got me to order some really old dusty books from the 60's on cognitive dissonance and I have allergy to dust, so you can imagine how impressed I was with everything I read and heard.

I'm not saying this book is a revolution but it's good enough to make a dent on the way you see things.

For audiobook listeners the narrator is the author and he's OK but this book it's too good to not have a professional narrator.

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