Thomas Morris

Toxic Positivity + Delusional Optimism = This book

Revisado: 02-25-22

I went into this book looking for the issues women around the world have to endure followed up with well articulated solutions/propositions for how to solve some of the issues . And even though Claudia sparsely hits on this points, there was way too much fluff in between.

For one, Claudia constantly uses examples of people who overcome the trials and tribulations in their life through faith and belief. For example, she mentions Oprah Winfrey feeling bad about embarrassing one of her guests on the show. And from this, Oprah became a better person which propelled her career to unimaginable heights. That's a pretty big leap to go from a remorseful experience to being one of the wealthiest people in the world without incorporating the other facets of Oprah's life that led to her success.

Constantly, Claudia keeps pushing the narrative that if you find your purpose in life (set by God) and believe hard enough, you will accomplish what you were meant to do in life. It just feels disingenuous, because Claudia doesn't incorporate failure and circumstances into her message. She pulls the "feel good" stories out of the plethora of miserable and downtrodden ones as if those stories aren't realities for people a majority of people around the world. Not to dismiss confidence and hope necessary to move a mission/purpose forward because that is definitely involved in most expeditions to solving global problems, but there's more aspects that goes into it.

My final grip with this book is the overuse of God or higher power being intertwined in someone finding their purpose. Even though Claudia prefaces this topic with a disclaimer telling her readers that they should replace God and higher power with their own complementary substitute, her narrative requires that God exists as he gave each individual their hidden purpose in life. There's not a viable alternative for agnostics or atheists. From this perspective, these groups are excluded from having a true purpose in life. I know Claudia didn't mean any ill-intent when writing this book, but she doesn't properly address how someone that isn't a theist can find their purpose.

The intentions of the book are admirable as Claudia attempts to vocalize how everyone can have a purpose. But the execution missed the mark, and I just wouldn't feel right recommending this book to any in my social network.

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