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Jessica FB

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Goes straight from peaceful meditation into loud self-promotion

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-17-24

The meditation is great and relaxing, however, toward the end, the uncertainty about when the relaxing meditation music is going to abruptly change to the loud self-promotion gives me anxiety. And I’m not able to finish out the meditation. There is an end of chapter timer, however it still goes partially into the next chapter before stopping. It has loud storm sounds with a booming voice of self-promotion.

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Complaining, Negative, Geared toward workaholics

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-11-24

The author has a very specific view and angle. This book is geared toward workaholics who overcommit to everything and work themselves sick.

It paints employers as being slave drivers who never give employees sick days or days off.

It’s all quite negative and complain-y.

The author also says “you” (rather than “one” or “they”) when talking about the experience of a homeless person or a depressed and suicidal person, projecting onto the reader that they themselves are a homeless person struggling or depressed and suicidal.

There were a few good nuggets in there. Like focusing on what one is passionate about and what would make them happy.

And learning to connect with one’s emotions through meditation and stillness, focusing on one’s emotions. Also spending 20 minutes in the morning writing about any painful or negative emotions one is experiencing, and then when it’s over, throwing the pages away.

Some people might gain a lot from and love this book, however, it’s more geared toward an over-committing workaholic who works themselves to hospitalization.

The author is also trans, and there are some examples of this group, so if someone identifies that way, they might also like the angle of this book.

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Only 1hr 30min of random talking — no actual content

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
1 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-09-24

I don’t get it. It was 1hr and 30 minutes of him talking about nothing. Is this the whole audiobook? It was just him talking about one of his events, name dropping and fluff. Waste of $8.

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Meh

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-04-24

Mediocre advice and nothing substantial. I wish it had more psychology content in it. This writes more like one’s personal account vs. content from a psychologist. Brené Brown’s content is much more powerful.

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Fictional story with drops of frameworks & research

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-07-24

The narrator’s voice is very breathy with a little bit of vocal fry and I found his voice difficult to listen to, kind of gross and distracting.

I feel this book is trying to be like The Alchemist or Siddhartha, fictional personal development books. Only it comes nowhere near in its storytelling. If one is familiar with personal development, they probably will already have heard a lot of what is shared.

Some of the reviews mention how this book is a lot of fluff and could have shared the actual lessons in a short format. I felt this way also. The reason for this is because the book is not a nonfiction book teaching and inspiring about how to wake up at 5am, which is what I was looking for.

Rather, it tries to fit these nonfictional frameworks and research studies into a (what I found to be) non-engaging fictional story.

I would find myself tuning out completely, just hearing like a blah, blah, blah in the background. Then, when a framework would be introduced or a research study would be mentioned, my brain would come back to the story to pay attention.

This is what people were talking about when they said it’s a lot of fluff. Remove the entire in-engaging fictional story, and just give the learnings and teaching points.

People who favor nonfiction most likely will not enjoy this book. However, people who favor fiction and storytelling, even when it’s not spectacular (like The Alchemist or Siddhartha for example, which are spectacular imo), will probably like the style of this book.

I couldn’t even make it all the way through. I also was already familiar with the frameworks and research shared in the book. But for some, they may really like and find value in this story/book.

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It works!

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-03-23

Mel Robbins is quite negative and cynical and constantly projects that the reader will wake up and implement the 5 second rule constantly talking about how “stupid” it is. I’m not this way at all. She complains a lot and has a heavy and negative view of the world. However, all of that aside, the first handful of chapters were very inspirational and informative. I actually made lunch and cleaned my kitchen with ease while listening during a work break. For reference, I usually live off of Uber Eats and my kitchen counter previously seemed overwhelmingly messy. Magical! It truly works. I’m excited to see what else I can accomplish implementing it.

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Felt like Rockefeller was telling me stories himself!

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-25-23

It feels like Rockefeller had sat down to tell me these stories himself. Such valuable and interesting information.

Not only business advice, but purpose as well and the business of philanthropy, which I found all very inspiring! Loved it.

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Some of his arguments are flawed, but his point is still made

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-25-23

He gives an example of a corporation that performs mass layoffs, then stock prices soar in response, and the CEO enjoys its benefits.

He then gives the example of People magazine celebrating celebrity love stories for a Valentine’s Day edition, where half of the couples had come together as a result of infidelity. (They had cheated on their spouses with each other and ultimately ended up getting married.)

He makes the argument that society sees the first example as bad, yet the second example favorably, yet the people who were cheated on by their spouses suffer more harmful effects than those who were laid-off.

He’s trying to make the point that businesses that aren’t doing well need to have lay-offs for the health of their company and that the marketplace has new jobs available for these people.

That argument is fine. However, there have been plenty of studies showing the negative impacts of people being laid-off, especially males, who can succumb to depression, alcoholism, suicide, etc.

So to hold the Pollyanna view that mass lay-offs do not affect the employees as negatively as a cheating spouse is flawed.

One could also make the argument that one could find a better spouse instead, one whom loves them and is more committed and dedicated to them.

He overall is attempting to make the argument that while some businesses to have unethical practices, business in itself isn’t inherently unethical. I mean, I love business, so like, duh. I completely agree with this.

However his long detailed arguments of why this is so are flawed, and biased with a bit of a Pollyanna view of business altogether.

This is like how people have viewed police officers negatively in the recent years, when in reality, only a minority of officers act in an unethical manner. Yet they become viewed negatively as a whole by many.

This is an analogy that I am making.

He also gives a big long spiel about how only humans have emotions and animals don’t. We know by science that this is not true. Animals absolutely do experience emotions. He says specifically that a dog cannot experience shame, when in fact there are videos all over the internet of people shaming their dog, their dog wincing in response, squinting their eyes and s inching up their face in emotional turmoil, for human laughs on the internet.

I’m only two chapters plus the intro in (around 3 hours), and yet I’ve noticed that a lot of his arguments are biased and flawed with an overly Pollyanna view of business as a whole.

That being said, I personally am a capitalist. Here in America we are a capitalist democracy, which is characterized by a mostly free market, which is overseen by government regulation and has strong social programs. I am all for this structure.

Now, do some big businesses lobby governmental authorities to vote in their favor? Yes, we know this happens. And we can all agree that when it does it is unethical.

But this doesn’t mean that business in itself doesn’t serve the masses, because it absolutely does. Commerce inherently fulfills consumer and customer needs and desires.

This is why people trade their dollars for products and services, because they value them and these products and services make their lives better.

I know this to be true. And the case Lapin is trying to make us sometimes attempted with flawed arguments.

That being said, I am very touched and inspired by viewing business and money spiritually and that the amount of money received is an indicator of how many and/or happy o e has made other people. I absolutely love this point and theme and it really helps me have a perspective that supports me having a service-based enterprise, whereas historically I struggled to promote and cold-sell my services. However my clients always raved and I did receive referrals.

I’m thinking about a new business I am planning to start, this theme is very helpful in helping me reconcile and feel positively, comfortable and all-together good about selling my services.

Hope this helps! Again I am currently around 3hrs in.

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Great information, breathy, vocal fry reader

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-29-22

This book has amazing information for understanding and improving communication (5 stars).

The narrator ends the last word of each sentence with breathy, vocal fry. It distracted me from the content and I found myself feeling a little bit annoyed (some people may not care or be bothered by it). However, the content was great, so I found it to be worth the listen.

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Informative, but so-do

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-12-22

In the meditation part he talk very quickly and his voice isn’t at all soothing or relaxing. He says we’re going to go seven years into the future, but never does. Brian Weiss’s stuff is far better on this topic.

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