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This is a hard one to review despite my constant stream of updates as I read this. I guess I had too high of an expectation on the book (what's with Magic Shop and the general hype around this book). It definitely has its high, its low and neutral (or am I just apathetic about it?)
More often than not I find myself disconnected with Jim, despite his deep contemplations, and I don't deny that there are some good gems in this. It really is a self-help book guised in an autobiography with some neuro ...more
More often than not I find myself disconnected with Jim, despite his deep contemplations, and I don't deny that there are some good gems in this. It really is a self-help book guised in an autobiography with some neuro ...more
Reading the Magic Shop is an emotional journey of finding many lessons on how one can come to terms with oneself, with little reassurance that life has much to offer despite suffering and difficult lessons it forces on us. Magic Shop, the BTS song provides a safe place where all these lessons can be remembered in an imaginative purple galaxy space that can be anything and everything in moments of self-doubt, sadness and even hate for oneself and provide safe space to exist for brief but importan
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Let's call this, the intellectual's "the secret". I was expecting a lot more neuroscience research, and a lot less of a child's memories of learning meditation. "A neurosurgeon's quest..." in the title is misleading, it could've just as easily said "an above average achiever's quest..", "a man's quest..", "a wanna-be magician's quest.." and all of them would have been just as much (as little) relevant to the contents of the book.
It's hard to follow the author's arc of realizing money isn't the ...more
It's hard to follow the author's arc of realizing money isn't the ...more
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