The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
TLDR: “Superficial pop psychology; should have been a blog post”
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 and 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 these 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 count down 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 Data
- Author
- Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
- Year
- Pages
- 336
- Acquired
- Not recorded
- Open Library
- OL39181496W
- I have read this book. According to my records, I completed it on .
- A hardcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.