by Aseem Gupta | Jun 30, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Gary John Bishop’s Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life belongs to a crowded category of books promising to help readers escape procrastination, self-doubt, frustration, and the feeling of being trapped in their own lives. Its title suggests...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 28, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck became famous partly because its title sounds like an instruction to stop caring. That interpretation is catchy, but it is almost the opposite of what the 2016 book argues. Manson does not recommend emotional...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 7, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few works of philosophy are as easy to quote and as easy to oversimplify as The Enchiridion. Its opening distinction between what is and is not “in our control” has become one of the best-known ideas associated with Stoicism, often reduced to the advice that we should...
