One can trace the thread of from those days in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire to the creative outpouring of the Renaissance to the breakthroughs of the Enlightenment. The most hilarious thing is how poorly-rendered Holiday's history is. Seemingly anyone who's ever done something well is an example, contradictions be damned. The book revolves around dozens of small, unrelated and intellectually unlinked anecdotes. This could have been conveyed in a much more powerful way. The only real linkage here is the classical Stoic advice to maintain equanimity. They run into each other, have no discernible borders, and are so huge as to be unwieldy, so unwieldy as to be pointless. Rather than actionable instructions, these platitudes are vast like the oceans. There are no specifics about how exactly one is supposed to tackle "obstacles," which is a ludicrously broad concept, just droplets raining down from the Platonic form of Cant. Flip to any page if it isn't an anecdote about how some famous person got famous by exhibiting a given virtue, it's just more of this run-on about how you have to find the way in which your obstacle is the way. There's no point at which it transcends to advice that will move your life forward. No way around it: It's on you.This wouldn't be especially egregious if it weren't the whole book, but it is. Because each obstacle we overcome makes us stronger for the next one.
No one is saying you can't take a minute to think, Dammit, this sucks. The pacing, tone, and almost computer-generated writing give the effect of a student trying to meet a page requirement the night before a due date. I would be shocked if Holiday, a so-called media manipulator, put his heart into this drivel.
There's no need to reinvent the wheel! Lay down that same track.Īside from some of the facts within the actual anecdotes-on which I don't trust he's done appropriate research since each of them are presented perfunctorily and exclusively to evince his successful-people habits (and not to interject any complications of reality)-there is little in this book you couldn't get from Dove chocolate wrappers. You interned for a guy who wrote an anecdote-based guide to being powerful. Just do it! For example, if you have a contract from Penguin to write a self-help book but you have absolutely nothing to say, don't fret. Great advice, everyone: overcome adversity.
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