Jason Trager

A savagely basic book without stimulating insights

Revisado: 10-18-23

Context: I have ADHD, and I consume between 40-60 audiobooks a year. At its best parts, this book was boring and painful to get through. I found myself having to struggle to finish it, largely because there was no part in which there was an AHA moment, and a complete lack of stimulation. In its worst parts, tuckman displays a casual toxicity while handing out poor sex advice, such as when he suggests that if you don’t like the lube you bought because it irritates your skin, you should give it to someone you don’t like. Another wonderful tidbit - “[Unless you’re a teenager sneaking around, get yourself some grown up lube]”. I found myself shaking my head and wondering what would possess someone who knows about ADHD to actually give this advice to teenagers.

The author includes a lot of sex advice, some of which is decent but all of which is poorly presented. It seems to me that he wanted to write a book about sex to promote his other books, and encourage people to seek stimulant based treatment for their ADHD.

I was going to give this book two stars instead of one because Tuckman repeatedly suggested that someone struggling should seek a qualified therapist, and includes other tidbits that are technically correct. I changed my mind upon reflecting on the toxic parts.

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Manufactured profundity and pseudo science

Revisado: 01-10-22

This book is stack of baseless assertions masquerading as science and insight. Starting from an unsubstantiated conclusion that the mind is of a quantum persuasion, Dr. Siegel spends twenty hours building self-referential conclusions about his theories. The entire book goes about defining mind and the definition of mind using a logical framework that will be familiar to anyone who has ever watched a YouTube conspiracy video. Never before have I read or listened to a book that builds a house of cards on the repeating premise of "It may be that A is true", and in the next chapter states "because A is true, it may be that B is true." This stack of logical non-sequiter builds up to Z, in this case.

Dr. Siegel clearly understands that he is doing this, because he often wanders close to the truth, yet misleads the reader on it more often than not. Throughout this book, I wondered if he was a fool or a charlatan. I suspect the latter, but don't intend on reading more of his work to build evidence one way or another.

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