I rather liked this book. It is an American self-help book, but once you get past the razzle-dazzle, it's quite interesting in what it has to say. More importantly, it is useful in what it says we should do. I like a self help book that contains not only a call to action, but a framework in which that action should take place.
The premise of the book is that we are heading towards a disruption at the civilisational level. The sources of the disruption are down to what the authors call the '3Es' - Energy, the Economy, and the Environment. The argument is that we are over-reliant upon carbon based fossil fuels, that the economy is over-reliant upon the creation of debt, and the planet is heading towards it's natural limits for all of our activities. The result we are heading for, according to the authors, is a civilisational collapse.
Accepting this premise - and we could argue the point - we are left with the question of what to do. The authors suggest that we focus on our eight pools of capital (or wealth): our Financial Capital, our Living Capital, our Material Capital, our Knowledge Capital, our Emotional & Spiritual Capital, our Social Capital, our Cultural Capital, and our Time Capital. There is a degree of overlap between these different categories, but over all, they provide a nice framework for a reasonably well balanced life. Even without the prospect of a civilisational collapse, they would be a good thing to focus upon in any case.
The reader is invited to reflect upon their lives to consider which forms of capital they have in abundance, and which are in deficit. They are also invited to devise an action plan to make good those deficits. I can't speak of others, but I found this approach extremely useful. I tend to allow myself to become unbalanced, so a gentle nudge to find a bit of balance does me no harm.
The book is an early stage access point into the author's sales funnel. However, I am sufficiently interested to jump down that rabbit hole to see where it goes. I think that the general appeal of the book would be to those whose lives are not quite firing the way they would like them to. It encourages introspection and self-developed corrective action. I haven't found any pat solutions yet, which encourages me. It is more like a tool for self-discovery, which sits well with me. As I said, I quite liked the book.