I feel like the background why I read this book is more important than actually reading this book.
I have a very dear, old friend who I've known since we were 5 years old. We grew up together, we were and maybe still are best friends, important to each other in so many ways. Playing music, having discussions, getting drunk, doing little films together, traveling and everything you can imagine.
And now, in our early to mid-thirties, I'm afraid we are drifting apart in terms of values. We've had some drunken discussions where we don't seem to understand each other, I'm getting tired of all the talk about money, he is getting tired of my guilt-trip laced idealism on an equal world.
So I proposed we start a book club. Just the two of us. So that we can both broaden our horizons, understand the backgrounds for our thoughts. Make it two-way. And he liked the idea. I asked for a first book and he gave me this. And I started it with an open mind, but grew numb very quickly. It's a decent walkthrough of rest, diet and exercise. Much about sleep, obviously.
So little new stuff here. So little room for bigger insights. I would've appreciated the one notion, that rings the truest to me: the question about "why", because it's been famously said that the person who has a "why" can go through any "how", didn't have much on purpose, mission, values. It's just a very shallow, general rant on topics that seem so very obvious. There was absolutely nothing new to me here, though I've not even read about the subject that much. Sleep, I have.
My god, how I am stubborn and unwilling to understand my dear friend, it seems. I feel disappointed in myself for not liking this more. But we will talk and I'm very sure that's going to change everything. Sometimes I can be very slow to understand things, but I'm always open. So let's see if my perspective changes after we talk about it. I'll return to this review and write a thing or two about it for sure. I really really really want to connect and understand as we get older and (hopefully) wiser.