Hits close to home

I really enjoyed this book, just wished I had listed to it about 3 years ago. A lot of the topics and suggestions are things Ive done in my life and have had enormously positive effects. Things like work / life balance, what I really value and what is important to me

A few topics really REALLY hit close to home. Things like giving up something that looks good on paper (a good income with benefits and security) making the people closest to you freak out. Gave up my last job to figure out what I wanted to do. No plan, just not working within the same field. Followed closely by a freak out and a long talk with both my mother and father. I successfully lied to myself that the "accumulation oriented lifestyle" was in my nature for over 10 years. But once I stopped doing something that only caused suffering and removed all rewards (buying things and doing drugs) from my life, a new found inner peace followed quickly. An other thing was that life (using money as a reward in some way) I lived was "the only option available". The words I use in my life is "the only option presented". Ive yet to come across more than one or two individuals who lived life in a different way. If people dont reward themselves with things, trips or status symbols its something else external. Before my 25th birthday I had not ran across a single individual who showed any alternative to the basic lifestyle of working 40 hours a week and buying things as a reward

I do sort of feel a buddhist undertone, accidental or deliberate I do not know. Craig talks about "motivation behind getting rid of things", something that I in my mind translate as the buddhist concept of not getting rid of more desire / attachment than you are ready for. If you do get rid of something you are not ready to get rid of your motivation is ego driven and most likely will lead to, as Craig mentions, the thing to be replaced or leave a void where desire / attachment sneaks back in

Tried to keep it short but I guess that is too late. His dialect is a bit thick and the audio quality leaves something to be desired (thus a 4/5 in performance) but he speaks clearly and its not much of an issue. Overall great book :)

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