Out of the gate, this book takes a very existentialist philosophy, which I am 100% on board with, it got me excited to keep reading. That is until I realized, that the writing is kinda crap.
There’s a few quality nuggets in here, but it’s really bogged down by low quality writing. It mixes it’s metaphors and uses a lot of Christian jargon, despite seeming not to be a religious book, but a spiritual one.
He tries to be funny in bits, and it does not work. At all. As an example: A particular joke about going back two spaces and losing a turn, if you don’t know who Jimmy Durante is, came across as a “playful” sort of condescending. It had the same energy as an old white man telling me that don’t know what good music sounds like.
There’s a lot of that in this book. I can normally get down and vibe with spiritual leaders, because they tend come across as rejecting the ego, and sharing from a place of wisdom. This books feels like a weird mashup of ego and wisdom though. It’s crappy because I can totally rally behind the general message, just not behind the messy method through which it’s conveyed.
I really wish I understood all the rave reviews on this one. It feels like there are other people dispensing this same information in a far more thoughtful way. Oh well.