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I have mixed feelings about this book as it vassilates between great insights and inspiring comments to really obscure navel gazing that I don’t think adds to the inquiry at all. Maybe it will down the line, but my self-aggrandizement alarms are going off. Suspending judgement for the time being.

“To live without the weight of everything you were not - how could it ever be?”

This book is amazing.

This is going to be amazing. And I love that the author writes well - beautiful descriptive passages - and is just an enthusiast. He’s become an ornithologist through passion and not credential. Love that.

I usually avoid popular self help type books, but I’ve had at least 6 people recommend this in the last 3 weeks, and he’s got more credentials than being famous. So I’m giving it a go, and it is excellent. Very well laid out argument, that isn’t only rational, but is laced with emotion and empathy. It is, so far, a truly human read, in that it sees us as we are but also as we can become.

This is a painful and discouraging read. I really hope it gets better.