I am a glass-half-full, and the water is a sort-of blackish color kind of a person. When I saw this book on a coming soon list a few days ago, I pounced!!! The way I read the synopsis made me think it was a book for negative people who can't really be positive, and why should they be if they can harness all that negative energy to divide and conquer? My mistake, entirely, since as I read the synopsis now I see it's perfectly clear. This book teaches you how to harness all the negativity in the world and use it to improve your life, taking everyday feelings like self-loathing, regret and shame and making them work for you. That's where You're Not That Great (but neither is anyone else) comes in. But the truth is, you're not a badass and you still don't have the life you want. You can say your mantra over and over again while sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in a Whole Foods parking lot. You can spend your days giving yourself affirmations in your heart-shaped mirror and trying to learn to love yourself. Let's be real, you can read all the inspirational quotes you want. The self-help industry tells you that if you're positive, if you put your best foot forward and if you just believe in yourself that you will find happiness. ![]() I care more about feeling great than being great. ![]() A hilarious, scathing send up of the self-help genre in the bestselling tradition of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck from social media mogul and The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.
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