by Brené Brown
Marianne decides to explore 12 popular self-help books over 12 months at the beginning of one year and discovers that they're not always helpful. If you're like me you've read a lot of self-help books and occasionally taken a few pieces of advice from them before inertia and time spent doing other...
I'm on an unfortunate roll of reading books I really don't care for. I don't know if I had a glitchy audiobook or if Brown seriously repeats entire paragraphs, verbatim, throughout the book, but it was a feature I found pandering and annoying. Also, every recalled conversation sound fake. Every sing...
Loved this book! For a full review, follow the link.
The book was funny, thoughtful, and straight to the point. I thought I would never stop laughing when she talks about lying to the teacher about making cookies. The author talks through so many rules and double standards that we put on ourselves. I appreciate the way she describes living in a mor...
Teddy Roosevelt sums up this book nicely:“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who striv...
By and large, I'm pretty averse to self-help books. I can't stand the didactic tone, and I rarely trust any "analysis" contained within. I didn't have either problem with Brown's book. While she did back up her analysis with (what seems to my untrained eye to be) solid sociological research, that wa...
I didn't actually finish this. It was one of those books, much like many of these types of books, that didn't resonate with me. It was like...I knew all the words but didn't understand what they meant when they were all put together. I didn't agree with her definitions of "shame" and "vulnerability...
What could you accomplish if you knew that you were enough?We live in a society that is undercut by a false culture of scarcity. There isn't enough money, enough power, enough love. I'm not pretty/smart/athletic/whatever enough. Women need to do it all and make it look effortless. Men need to ne...
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