Only when you know how to die will you understand how to live. Too bad I can’t understand the original Latin texts included in this book, but I would imagine it to be as enlightening as the English translation (or should it be the other way round?).
An easy read, but pretty light on substance, unless you consider an autobiography to be instructional. The concepts are repeatedly emphasised throughout the book, which makes it repetitive after a while.
The author suspects she was on the verge of becoming a happiness bore. Well, her suspicion is confirmed in this book. (Notice this review is almost shorter than the book title? That’s how the book should be.)
如果你是那种看历史书就想睡觉的人，不妨拿这本书瞅一眼。虽然写法不伦不类（好比让周星驰重新编出来的“红楼梦”），但娱乐性高，容易读。只是部分内容有说教的嫌疑，加上说教的部分有时前后矛盾，所描述的历史事件在时间线上也不对办。若想认真对待这本书，则难免有点失望。
This is a classic example of too many cooks spoil the broth. I’ve watch the talk by Simon Sinek and he definitely has some thought-provoking ideas. Unfortunately when he and the rest of the gang tried to pull together a project like this, their voices are disjointed and their messaging, repetitive. The book ended up… Read More »
Disappointed. A book that purports to be a cutting-edge primer on what it takes to be “original” (as Sheryl Sandberg puts it in the Foreword) has very little original insights in it. In fact, this mash-up of snippets from other books on pop psychology contradicts its original premise that “to become original, you have to… Read More »