Review: A Short Book That Seems Written by Tyler Durden Himself.....If He Were to Write One...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
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 philosophy 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.