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It's a great book and I'll listen again

Revisado: 04-20-23

This is not a textbook treatise. The author does not claim to have the best answers. But it discusses real life matters and feelings related to time and productivity. It brings to light a landscape of things that go or can go into how your time is actually spent or should be spent. By going over many topics, it sometimes drops a line of useful wisdom, or a perspective that can move your mind to a different place that helps you. I remember nice messages from this book. The messages I remember are not necessarily amazing, they just spoke to me, and they give me useful help. This book comes across to me as humble in attitude and thorough in execution.

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Please listen to this book

Revisado: 08-18-21

This work is so timely, so incisive, so authoritative, so clear, I wish every citizen would be touched by it. The author uses extremely strong data to demonstrate the lies of the allegations of systemic racism. It talks mainly (but not only) about two uncomfortable truths that today have become too politically incorrect for even scientists to talk about: 1) minorities consistently demonstrate lower cognitive ability in every way it is measured, 2) minorities demonstrate consistently higher crime rates.

This book is a call for us to look and acknowledge reality as it exists, instead of closing our eyes because of our wishes, pre-existing biases, and political agendas.

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Outstanding, timely, incisive

Revisado: 05-05-21

Surgeon author, with a team of researchers and aides, travels the country investigating all things money in healthcare. Uncovers with the most vivid details the exact workings of things like price gauging, predatory billing, exploitation by middlemen, overall perverse incentives solidified into obscure financial arrangements, and others. Lays, as bare as one could, the monetary diseases of the US healthcare system.

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My goodness, what a fabulous book

Revisado: 02-19-19

Dr. Chua effortlessly walks you through a staggering volume of detail to deliver quite a lucid understanding of what feels like every major event in recent American history, all the way up to today's political and ideological divides. Vietnam, Middle East, Cold War are all pieces of cake to her voracious intellect, laying the framework from which she brutally dissects the excesses today's Leftists and Rightists. Far from being any kind of solutionism, or hip science, this book is not trying to preach anything, and that's one of the reasons why it is so successfully useful for discussing anything from racism to international wars to why Donald Trump is in the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame.

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Wise words, brutal mindset, irrevocably religious

Revisado: 04-22-18

I feel that Dr. Peterson's words could straighten a soon-to-be mass shooter back into a life of virtue and prosperity. He looks at the pains of modernity in the eyes, and wrestles them into submission with sheer fearlessness, brutality, and knowledge. His fundamentally brutal opinions and mindset might not be for everyone, but at least nobody can say he is ever dishonest.

As an atheist myself, I am left with a lingering fear that his profound, monumental reasonings could be rather mental gymnastics to boil everything down to the Bible, which he frequently cites throughout the book. But the truth is that whether his positions are more or less rational is actually a superfluous concern here. What matters most is that in this book Dr. Peterson offers a palpable, understandable, immediately actionable mindset to sort out puzzles of life in today's world, and be good, do good, become better, prosper.

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A motivational masterpiece for the ages

Revisado: 04-10-18

At moments his advice slips into idealistic righteousness, but Hubbard's words are nevertheless so illuminating and timeless that you would believe they were written ten years ago. Everyone should read and reread this book, from the tender child to the jaded elder.

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A classic for the ages

Revisado: 03-21-18

It is amazing to see that the foundations of modern metropolitan society were already laid out in 1936, when this book was originally published. The author lived in New York City and his lessons apply mostly to ambitious professionals living in centralizing urban areas such as the largest cities of each state. He talks about how to criticize, how to persuade, how to be an agreeable person, even how to approach negotiations. It is quite apparent throughout the book that the author holds meticulous knowledge and admiration of past U.S. presidents and leaders of major corporations. This book is a classic, and if nobody told you anything you could easily believe it was written in 1980 or so.

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Waste of time

Revisado: 03-18-18

Tons of pseudoscience with only tiny grains of useful insight. This book is just another pile of self-help yada yada that preys on a fragilized reader's thirst for answers. The author throws names of anatomical structures and neurotransmitters here and there, to try to pass as academical. I suggest you skip this book and try "Attached" by Amir Levine instead -- the latter at least won't try to convince you there exist hard scientific support when there is none.

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Interesting

Revisado: 08-26-17

This is not a book. This feels like a weekend night TV series, but in audio. The author walks you through his investigation with his narrative and the real voices of the people he interviewed. His investigation was not rigorous like a documentary, but rather for the sake of interestingness and curiosity. It is, however, a sober work that does bring out important overarching realities. The stories are not about delusioned young women falling victim to the porn industry.

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Rather poor

Revisado: 08-20-17

If you know what a memory palace is, this audiobook is not for you. If you don't, this roughly summarizes this audiobook: to memorize German vocabulary, use your imagination to attach something specific to each letter of the alphabet, then for every new word beginning with that letter you use your imagination again to make that thing do something that reminds you of the word. Then practice remembering it every day. At the end there are some links and orientations that can be useful, though.

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