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Two bad reviews for Brian's book have been posted on Amazon.
A two star review gives a brief but accurate summary of a few of the book's main points, but dismisses Brian's philosophy with the meme "OK, Boomer." This is funny to me as I know Brian and he is Generation X, and pretty much the anti-Boomer. I suppose some people easily jump to conclusions based on the influence of trendy media slogans, which is something Brian explicitly advised against in his book.
In fact, I believe one of Brian's main motivations for writing this book is to counteract many of the Boomer values that have been pushed on us over the years. My experience with Boomer parents, and having worked for Boomers for most of my working life, is that the mainstream media has incredible influence on their thoughts, values and behaviors, mostly to negative effect. Brian wrote his book for his son to explain to him age-old values that many of the Boomer generation were propagandized by academia and the media to reject.
Another review, one star, states that Brian used the book to brag about his own accomplishments. But as far as I can tell, the only "bragging" Brian did in the book was about being able to do 100 burpees in a single set. This review, however, is correct on the importance of Ben Franklin's autobiography to Brian's philosophy.
I believe Brian has given us a simple philosophy with concrete guidance on how we can become better people, and even achieve our own versions of greatness by following a few simple maxims. But I suppose having a very basic level of reading comprehension is necessary to grasp the main points. I suppose if you do not have that, you are not destined for greatness. That's my takeaways from these two reviews.
I've only been attempting to follow Brian's philosophy for the past couple months, but already I've noticed a change in myself, mostly physically at this point by following Brian's virtues of temperance and exercise. I am losing weight while gaining muscle and stamina. I look in the mirror and already I see a change for the better. I have implemented frugality and am struggling with industry and prudence, but am hoping to track improvements in my life in those areas as I am already seeing with temperance and exercise.
I'm hoping to read more reviews, hopefully from people who are attempting to implement this philosophy in their lives, and on whether it is working for them.
A two star review gives a brief but accurate summary of a few of the book's main points, but dismisses Brian's philosophy with the meme "OK, Boomer." This is funny to me as I know Brian and he is Generation X, and pretty much the anti-Boomer. I suppose some people easily jump to conclusions based on the influence of trendy media slogans, which is something Brian explicitly advised against in his book.
In fact, I believe one of Brian's main motivations for writing this book is to counteract many of the Boomer values that have been pushed on us over the years. My experience with Boomer parents, and having worked for Boomers for most of my working life, is that the mainstream media has incredible influence on their thoughts, values and behaviors, mostly to negative effect. Brian wrote his book for his son to explain to him age-old values that many of the Boomer generation were propagandized by academia and the media to reject.
Another review, one star, states that Brian used the book to brag about his own accomplishments. But as far as I can tell, the only "bragging" Brian did in the book was about being able to do 100 burpees in a single set. This review, however, is correct on the importance of Ben Franklin's autobiography to Brian's philosophy.
I believe Brian has given us a simple philosophy with concrete guidance on how we can become better people, and even achieve our own versions of greatness by following a few simple maxims. But I suppose having a very basic level of reading comprehension is necessary to grasp the main points. I suppose if you do not have that, you are not destined for greatness. That's my takeaways from these two reviews.
I've only been attempting to follow Brian's philosophy for the past couple months, but already I've noticed a change in myself, mostly physically at this point by following Brian's virtues of temperance and exercise. I am losing weight while gaining muscle and stamina. I look in the mirror and already I see a change for the better. I have implemented frugality and am struggling with industry and prudence, but am hoping to track improvements in my life in those areas as I am already seeing with temperance and exercise.
I'm hoping to read more reviews, hopefully from people who are attempting to implement this philosophy in their lives, and on whether it is working for them.