The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About

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.

It kinda reminded me of Everything is Figureoutable – another book I did not have a great experience with.

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.

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