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This was 10% self-help book and 90% memoir. Although I wish it were the other way around, I liked his storytelling style. He managed to be pretentious and humble at the same time. The name-dropping was distracting. I get it, you have access to famous people. I can support the overall message, though. Meditate.
It seems like the practice of meditation is calling me this year. My book club decided that instead of everyone reading the same book, we'd pick a theme and everyone could read their own book on that theme. January's theme: self-help. Looking for a self-help book I went to Good Reads and the very first self-help book I came upon was this one - about meditation. I also started a class in mediation earlier this month. I love,love serendipity.
Dan Harris does a great job in asking all the reporter ...more
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Free from the typical woowoo of many in the mindfulness movement though I may have been in a place that craved a little more of the woowoo. This book was down to earth but a tad heavy-handed in its easy coast cynicism. Ultimately, a motivating work that may not appeal to many readers on the quest.
To be fair, I think this deserves 3.5. This would be an interesting book for someone who had never heard of meditation, or was freaked out by it. I was engaged and the plot and issues Harris is struggling with kept me interested, but as someone who has been into meditation since I was in college and was never all that skeptical or it as a valuable practice, I found it hard to relate to his resistance. Still, I do love a makeover story and this definitely had that flavor. If you know a meditation
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The fact that it took me forever to get through this is more a testament to my failing reading habits than a judgment on the book. This was very readable and enjoyable, and convincing. I'm considering actually buying it.
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