I’m upset that I bought this. I bought it on the recommendation of someone, but it’s just kind of a silly book.
The idea is that you should respond to undesirable traits or behavior in other people by just saying “let them,” and caring less about things. Accept that you can’t control other people’s behavior and that it doesn’t reflect on you, and you’ll be happier.
I think this is called “stoicism.”
This is a classic example of a book that should have been a blog post. The author just hammers on the idea over the over, to the point where it stops having any value. There was simply no reason to pad this out to 300+ pages, other than to make a marketable commercial title out of it.
I’ve looked at the author’s other work, and she’s big on this kind of pop psychology titles. She is a “name” in the self-help space (of course she has a TED talk…), and her publisher just pumps her image for money. She comes up with really simple little mind hacks and somehow turns them into entire books.
Example: her previous book, The 5-Second Rule, says that when you don’t want to do something, you should just countdown from five and then do it. She somehow got an entire book out of this. There’s another book called The High 5 Habit which I’m ignorant of, but I assume it’s some other fairly simple mindhack.
I was not happy with this. I did not finish it.
Book Info
Author
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
Year
Pages
336
Acquired
I have read this book. According to my records, I completed it on July 8, 2025.
A hardcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.
I feel like an idiot for this one, I really do. I’m very curious. I look up stuff all the time, and I even keep track of it all. So, the title of this book made me thinking it was about…I don’t know what? Research? Learning? Satisfying your curiosity? It’s not. This is a mainstream self-help book....