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A lovely reason to laugh and cry

Revisado: 08-19-18

Simply charming and wonderfully casts a spell on the listener. We root for Less, pity him, cry for him, cheer for him and love him because he is not unlike any of us. And this from someone who is not white, male, gay or 50.

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If you like Daniel Pink you’ll like this

Revisado: 05-27-18

If, like me, you’re on the fence about Daniel Pink, this might be more of a shrug-worthy listen. There’s nothing particularly annoying but it’s like he’s a lower rent Malcolm Gladwell. Lots of semi-interesting information, but I feel like it would have fit into a magazine article. This feels stretched. I listened over a long car ride, so I was a fairly captive audience. It definitely made me think. It’s worth the audible credit. I just don’t think I want to spend that much time listening to Daniel Pink. Although, I’m sure he’s a lovely person. So there’s that.

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Awed and numb

Revisado: 02-25-18

This is definitely a novel I struggle to say I liked/loved because throughout it set me on edge. The language of it is poetry even at its most brutal. And the saga traverses a landscape of misery with a thin silver lining mostly obscured. It is often too truthful, too transparent to be comforting so even at its most hopeful it leaves you discomforted but oddly fortified. I guess I did love it, but I still find I’m on the verge of tears for dear Cora.

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10 percent less happy

Revisado: 06-28-17

If you aren't a narcissist it's hard to identify with this book. It involves a lot of self-aggrandizement and name dropping. And he battles with the most basic principals of meditation and treats it like a tool for his own material success for much longer than seems necessary. I have to admit, I don't know Dan Harris. I don't watch TV. I've never seen one of his reports. He just seemed callous, self-affected, and bizarrely unaware in what is supposed to be a book about his search for an incremental improvement in happiness and awareness.
Even in the final epilogue he misses a very crucial point of awareness. He says, he meditates to keep his life from changing. He's reached a height and he's happy. But everything changes.

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Deserving of all accolades with one caveat

Revisado: 10-10-15

This was a very entertaining listen and well narrated. This isn't a story I particularly relate to but the things that annoyed me most were likely a reflection of things in my character that annoy me most -- feeling that I'm the only one suffering, forgetting the many kindnesses, doing things the hard way from stubborn conviction and occasionally walking cluelessly into the deep end.

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