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The Flinch (2000)

by Julien Smith(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: This books is something Tyler Durden from "Fight Club" would write. It's a small treatise in living life with less fear and more power. On the surface, that is the idea behind every self-help book, but Julien's book focuses more on why we stall on becoming an improved self. Julien argues that our ancestral psychology (flight vs fright response), family, and society have conditioned us to listen to fear, regardless of what we are afraid of. His answer....Feel the fear and do it anyway.Julien coins this inability to live with less fear the "flinch" and provides Tim Ferriss-like experiements to help guide the reader through the first steps.Even though a lot of it was the same typical self-help spiel, Julien has a very unique spin of it that reminds me of Stoicism and the phil... moreosophy behind "Fight Club". I felt a little stronger because of it.The only downside was that other book excerpts were included that messed up the conclusion for me. When the book ended, I wanted to leave on the high note that I felt from reading. I don't want to read excerpts for other books.
review 2: I really like the idea behind this sort of books. That you can take control of your life (if you feel you haven't) and change yourself into the person you've always wanted to be (when you are not) are thoughts that fill me with hope and a kind of childish first-day-of-school joy. But I really didn't like this book, as much as I tried to, because it was just so badly written. Incredibly redundant, I think all he said in how many pages could've been explained the same in less than half. And that tone that's supposed to be "you and me in a conversation so personal" was confusing and even dumb at times. Please give. Me. Larger sentences. less

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