This is billed as an antidote to self help books and it’s basically full of self help type techniques that have actual scientific research to back them up. I’ve never really read a self help book as I suspect them to be full of a load of made up nonsense and/or to point things out that are basic common sense. This either makes me a bad audience for this book, or maybe a good one, I can’t decide. It’s possibly aimed at both people who don’t read self help books and those who read too much of them; cunning marketing idea anyway.

I didn’t find it hugely enlightening but I was pleased to find that some of the techniques I’ve uncovered on my own over the years actually work, and some of the things I’ve suspected are baloney - actually are. Interesting and quick read, I don’t remember having any big disagreements with the author while reading.