The author is a popular inspirational and motivational
speaker. This is a funny no-hype self help guide. "Why
Your Life Sucks" is an in-your-face title, but as Alan
Cohen says in the introduction, "It is honest and
practical, with teeth". The book starts with his own
wake-up call, when he was a teaching assistant to a
popular professor who locked himself in a garage, turned
on the car engine, and asphyxiated himself. Alan was the
guy who had to tell the professor's classes why he
wasn't going to show up any more. He realized that you
can look great on the outside, but still be dying on the
inside. The core of this book is the ten major things
people do that undermine their creativity, purpose, and
power, and how they can reverse them. You may already
know many of these truths: for example, the subheads in
chapter one, called You Give Your Power Away, are: You
Put People on a Pedestal; You Imitate Instead of Create;
You Don't Listen to Your Intuition; You Let Others
Choose for You; and You Think Your Destiny Depends on
Something Outside You. But you could read a hundred
self-help books and never see these truths so well
nailed in two to three page sections, with humor, great
examples, basic kindness, but also a bracing directness.
This is not theoretical psychology. It's first aid for
the woman who just got fired, the guy who just got
dumped by his girlfriend, the thirty something who's
already blown off two careers, the forty-something who
got off the booze and still feels miserable. Alan Cohen
shows how we can stop sabotaging ourselves, regain our
power, and start enjoying the life we were meant to
live.
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