Jimmy Risk

Does it’s job, but the guy can’t pronounce Chinese

Revisado: 11-16-20

The book isn’t jaw dropping, but it gets the job done of giving a good summary of Taiwan’s history. The narrator is also a good reader, but the performance is hindered greatly because the reader doesn’t know how to pronounce any of the Chinese terms or names.

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Too personal/subjective

Revisado: 11-14-19

I really liked three of Brené’s other books, but this one felt too personal and unrelatable. Half of the book is recalling of Brené’s personal stories, where she tries to justify these retellings with ideas that she defines earlier in the book, but these ideas are vaguely defined in the first place. It felt like Brené’s previous work was more scientific, and this book was more of her trying to vent her personal stories and how they fit into her other schemes. It could be useful for some, but it was very unrelatable for me.

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Everyone should read this book and interpret it objectively

Revisado: 08-04-18

The author provides fundamental ideas of living that have been applicable throughout humankind and still are in today’s society.

I recommend everyone that reads this to step back, try to view these ideas from a neutral lens, and absorb the ideas objectively. You don’t need to agree with everything he says, but you should NOT use personal biases to disagree with ideas.

For example, he often utilizes biblical stories to convey ideas of ethics, morality, and how to generally live life. Those who are nonreligous (like myself) should NOT push these ideas away because they aren’t Christian. His idea is to provide concise examples that boil down fundamental ways of living, not to brainwash anyone into Christianity. Whether a story comes from your parents, The Simpsons, a children’s book, or the Bible, as long as it’s essence is there, you should recognize that and not attach personal disagreements with the context of it.

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Take with a grain of salt

Revisado: 08-04-18

This book is a mismatch of personal experiences from the author combined with some science, rarely providing credible sources. While a lot of what he says can be verified scientifically, a lot of it is souped up with persuasive positive language to make the reader believe it is true.

For example, the author gives a long and detailed excursion into “Exclusion Zone Water,” saying we should eat cucumbers to increase the amount of it in our body. Google scholar searches yield extremely little peer-reviewed information about this subject, and general searches suggest that it may not even exist, and the initial articles about it are in low-impact journals.

It is frustrating to read this, because the author is intelligent and has a lot of useful information, but he mixes it so much with his own biases and advertises his own products that it makes it hard to decipher what is actually true, what he is trying to sell, and what is something that applies only to him because of his genetic makeup and isn’t applicable to the general population. It seems like the author is either unaware of what the placebo effect truly is, or is using it to take advantage of the readers.

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