Andrew Yourkin

Not dense, but useful

Revisado: 03-06-21

This little book does not have a lot of ideas in it, but some where illuminating, thus a keeper. Also, it’s not full of stories and storytelling, and this is a ++

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Coelevation. Rinse. Repeat.

Revisado: 10-09-20

Be a good person. Take the initiative. Help your colleagues. That’s about all of the meaningful content this book contains. Just a little bit repetitive. Could have been a blog post.

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Full of information not anecdotes

Revisado: 08-13-20

I‘m exhausted by 300 page books full of bedtime story material, which, removed, would leave at best 50 meaningful pages. On the contrary, this book focuses on actionable items, which can be immediately applied.

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A book about nothing

Revisado: 07-18-20

The first chapters seemed promising, but quickly the book fell off a cliff and turned out to be a boring restatement of the already obvious information, that doing useless things is useless and a waste of time. I felt like my time was stollen. Two stars plus only for the motivational aspect of reducing distractions, but there are better books about it.

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All problems are interpersonal relationship problems

Revisado: 06-10-20

“All problems are interpersonal relationship problems” you will hear this phrase a lot. It is repeated so many times, sometimes in a row, that by the end of the book I felt nauseous and begged it to stop, but the phrase just went on repeatedly. The pseudo science itself is also extremely doubtful, utter denial of psychological trauma? Tell that to ptsd sufferers. The whole tone of the “philosopher” is condescending despite claims of striving for “horizontal relationships”.

The ideas presented might be good to know, but that doesn’t make them valid.

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As exciting as listening to a dictionary

Revisado: 05-31-20

This book starts with some interesting ideas but quickly drops to a mode of endless verb tables, restating obvious conjugation as points to prove something that is lost in hours after hours of this monotonous rambling. As if challenged with the task of would it be possible to make the material even more drudging, wrong examples are also listed along with regular conjugation, making a dictionary read out loud literally more interesting and with more useful content word for word.

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What is this book about?

Revisado: 05-31-20

Disappointing book with absolutely no content that I find new or interesting. Cliche on cliche on cliche. Humans lie. Everyone knows that. The annoying thing is that this extremely known fact is presented as if this is an innovative or novel discovery. Good performance though.

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Pretty good

Revisado: 05-18-19

I found this title good for several reasons:
*going against mainstream egotistical “grit” ideas in some ways
*not long enough for me to lose a interest and get frustrated (ego speaking, but true)
*interview after the book ends was as interesting to me if not more

Deduction for what I feel is lacking practical recommendations for what to do apart from keeping it real and being humble, but a good start nonetheless.

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