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Stillness Is the Key
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Even though I found some good insights in this book I just couldn’t wait for it to be over. I felt the author trying SO hard to be deep, but just repeating and manipulating examples to prove his point.
Would love to have read this in a 10-minute-read article.
Some notes I wrote while reading it that explain why I couldn’t get myself to like it:
- Is it really that hard to find more than 3-4 examples of successful or notorious women vs tens of men’s examples? And only mention women to “prove” that we can only be happy if we marry and have children and thinking otherwise is “nonsense”? I found this deeply offensive
- Just because the author believes in a higher power he shouldn’t assure with no further prove or explanation other than examples of some religions that we NEED to believe in order to find peace or be happy
- I found all the examples of people deeply judgemental. The author acts as a judge and as he knows all details of others… as long as they fit in the topics he’s talking about at the moment. As if humans weren’t much more complicated than that
- I always appreciate getting to know about ancient philosophers in an easier or more digestible way… but as I said before, I found it being in a shallow way, no depth and apparently just forcing it in order to prove his point
Would love to have read this in a 10-minute-read article.
Some notes I wrote while reading it that explain why I couldn’t get myself to like it:
- Is it really that hard to find more than 3-4 examples of successful or notorious women vs tens of men’s examples? And only mention women to “prove” that we can only be happy if we marry and have children and thinking otherwise is “nonsense”? I found this deeply offensive
- Just because the author believes in a higher power he shouldn’t assure with no further prove or explanation other than examples of some religions that we NEED to believe in order to find peace or be happy
- I found all the examples of people deeply judgemental. The author acts as a judge and as he knows all details of others… as long as they fit in the topics he’s talking about at the moment. As if humans weren’t much more complicated than that
- I always appreciate getting to know about ancient philosophers in an easier or more digestible way… but as I said before, I found it being in a shallow way, no depth and apparently just forcing it in order to prove his point
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