Erika H.F

great info, not so great narration.

Revisado: 09-06-24

The organization is a little head-scratching, but the information is great. The narrator sounds slightly detached & in some spots snobbish... she sounds more like a teacher vs an excited trailblazer.

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clearly written by a neurological person

Revisado: 07-11-24

I picked this up to help my anxious ADHD teenage son, & while there are some good suggestions, I was more often than not thinking "ADHDers could never" or "she CLEARLY doesn't struggle with the subject matter she's writing about!"

Examples? Surely!
"We've all heard of counting to ten, better yet, take ten minutes!" This was in the Impulsivity chapter! As was the example of soothing a toddler creaming he wants ice cream while dinner is cooking with "after dinner." The author claims the child will accept this answer (HA!) & may forget when his belly is full (hahahahaha).

so yeah, so.e good suggestions... for people with good E.F that want to be better, not for people who struggle with it.

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DNF. Incredibly self-righteous & privileged!

Revisado: 12-22-23

DNF. This is the most self-righteous, condescending advice/help book I've ever opened. I'll sum it up: credit cards are evil & you're stupid to use them--just use cash. It's full of "my dad (Dave Ramsey) taught me this... I rebeled but he (& thus I) was right." One section is literally called "let go of your childish desires." Excuse you? She frames this as a book for normal people, but she literally shits on normal people the whole time. "Don't finance a car, pay cash!" Listen here lil miss privileged, that's not a reality for a lot of people. Normal people. Where's the advice for them? Advice that'd not "get a side hustle (i.e. work harder)," cuz most of them are damn near killing themselves to keep thier head above water.

She definitely should've read this herself, because you can literally hear her looking down her nose at you. Every "I understand" is so disingenuous and hollow sounding all it does is highlight that she doesn't understand how the fast majority of people live currently.

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negligently oversimplified

Revisado: 12-06-23

The 7 habits if you see them listed are no-brainers. More than that though is that biological functions are radically oversimplified & leave out important nuances. Also, her sources are narrow & shallow (like a single study, or a study done exclusively in animal but she declares it would be the same in humans).

Then narration (even when sped up) has a strange & inconsistent cadence. On top of that I was frequently tripped up when words were mispronounced or absent all together (which makes me doubt this went through an editor at all). didn't even get 30% through before I had to call it. So yeah, don't bother, there's better out there.

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couldn't even get through the first chapter.

Revisado: 07-25-23

MAN there's a lot of "Jesus" in this! I seriously couldn't get through the first chapter! I was raised catholic, so I can overlook & trudge through a reference here & there, but this was a lit, and completely unexpected. Bordering on offensive and exclusionary. Maybe the book is good, but he's limiting his reach with the bible-thumping.

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100%not worth the time

Revisado: 04-03-23

I tried to like it
Author's tone is detached & at times almost juvenile. His writing style & pace are strange, ending paragraphs of explanation with a random "but the view was nice." This makes his concerns & any emotional moments seem forced and disingenuous.
This book is really about what photographers working fires go through (part how to) & his experience with obligatory explanations... but honestly there are FAR better. I couldn't even get halfway through. Especially with his odd tones/pacing, mispronounced words & weird terms like "making pictures"

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Loved it until the last quarter

Revisado: 03-14-23

This book was fantastic until the last quarter or so... once she got to it being "our responsibility" to alter the Earth to suit human needs & started going on about seeding the atmosphere, colonizing the solar system, altering humans (again, a responsibility rather than an ethical mine field) & uploading our brains & evolving past the needs for biological bodies. Once we got there, I (an environmental scientist) was literally rolling my eyes back to the point of choking on them every few minutes.

So yeah, it's great until it moves into ridiculous & asinine science fiction being what will ensure human survival.

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I'd give this zero stars if I could!

Revisado: 12-11-21

This is the worst book I've picked up, probably ever. I thought it'd be humorous and quick... she literally opens it insulting you and then it just gets worse from there. I couldn't even finish it!

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Incomplete "stories" & bad pacing

Revisado: 03-22-21

This was awful. The "stories" are completely incomplete & hardly taboo. There are LONG (5 seconds!) bizarre, ill-timed pauses that I can't decide if they are bad editing or purposeful to add drama (they don't).

I read better/more provacative stuff before I graduated high school.

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Buy the book, don't listen!!

Revisado: 01-08-21

The book: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The audio: ⭐

This is another stunning example of why authors shouldn't read thier own work. Her voice & (for lack of a better word) attitude, and tone are fine but you can CLEARLY hear where different cuts were married and the pacing is absolutely horrendous. There's she reads section headings so fast, with no pause, like they're sentences that bridge the previous section to the new one when they (to borrow her phrasing) totally fucking don't!! They are separate sections, you need to read them as such.

The pacing is a MAJOR issue in the whole book, but more than that is just the overall audio quality. You can hear the audio splicing as I said, but you can hear background noise regularly, she also stutters, misspeaks & corrects herself many times--that's what editing is for!!! WTH!?! It's like she recorded it in her basement!

On the positive, this book does a good job of breaking big ideas and methods into small manageable pieces. She states that much of this book is about trauma and I don't agree the focus is so narrow. It's about physiological responses to stress, ranging from trauma to anxiety and even anger.

There's a few sentences that beautifully sum the book up but they're a solid hour into the book. When I can beat the thought of enduring the audio again I'll go hunt for them and add them to this review.

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