75min in, I gave up

Disappointment. This is the feeling I have from my experience with this book.

First 45min was Intro. Starts interesting for 5min with a personal story and then goes on 40min what should have been a cover text. Who's the author and what did she achieve and countless claims how good the techniques in this book will be and how scientific they will be and how much it will help and examples of people who it helped. Not a single ounce of knowledge or stimulating ideas. But okay, maybe this is just the intro which is very "salesy"?

Trying the first "content" chapter. 30min in, still no content. Anecdotes of people who broke things down into smaller steps. But just 30min of anecdotes so far. I understand the value of underpinning a key point with examples and making them relatable - fine. But this isn't underpinning, this is omitting key points in favor of telling stories.

Someone please tell the author to start with key messages first before loosing themselves in anecdotes.

Edit: I gave it a second try. The second content chapter was actually okay. When having worrying thoughts, question the assumptions and validity and decide to take action. Content chapter 3 was "taking breaks, silence and time for yourself and your thoughts help" - I agree but it was not particularly convincing. Chapter 4 - you need a social support network - I skipped after the same issues from the start: Anecdotes. Anecdotes, More anecdotes. Chapter 5 - cut the list of things you focus on - was also not convincing. I will stop this now for good.

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