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Woaw, finally finished this wonderful book, now I want to implement it everywhere, and can't wait to do it. While I've never been at all a meeting guy, this methodology proposes finally a reason to make some giant ones with a deep purpose and clear objectives, while encompassing everything we learned about human psychology (avoiding brainstorming traps where the quiet one don't say anything, avoiding decisions traps, ...). The whole process looks really smooth and interesting and could suit almost any project. It also integrate real user testings, something I think is deeply necessary for every project, to avoid one's blindness. Really can't wait to put it into action :)

Didn't really get into it, while it remembered me quite a lot of Lovecraft's work, it didn't had the same strength or finesse. I was expecting to be more surprised than that but overall the story is quite predictable. While it might have been quite a shock when it came out, unfortunately this isn't the case anymore. And I profoundly disagree with this book being “one of the best horror stories ever written” as Stephen King said.

A strong look at the current “migrant crisis” happening in our world, forcing us to understand our behavior, our flaws and double-standards towards those migrants but also the evolution of our societies and one's responsibilities in it. This book also highlight why we face such a rise in racism and fear towards immigration and the rise of people like Trump a bit everywhere in the world. Really enlightening, even if it's hard to face the naked truth.

Hé bien ça faisait quelques années que je n'avais pas lu un Amélie Nothomb, et j'avais tendance à penser que je n'aimais pas du tout son style, ce roman ci m'aura fait changer d'avis. Conseillé par une amie je l'ai laissé traîner pendant 2 mois sur ma table de chevet avant de l'attaquer, pour ensuite le dévorer en une heure sans quasi le lâcher. Partagé entre fiction et réalité, avec une ligne diffuse entre les deux, ce livre m'aura fait énormément rire, et j'aurai relevé énormément de passages. Bref un roman qui se dévore à toute vitesse et avec délectation.

Pour le coup c'est assez difficile de donner on avis par rapport à ce livre, parce que j'avais vraiment envie d'y accrocher et que ce qu'il promettait me paraissait assez formidable, malheureusement il tombe dans plusieurs écueils à gravités variables à mes yeux qui ne font que déforcer l'ensemble :- Structure : ce livre manque énormément, énormément de structure. Entre les aller-retours sur des sujets séparés par des dizaines de pages (et dans des chapitres différents), les retours incessants sur la structure du cerveau et des équations mathématiques somme toute étranges (les deux ne sont pas un tort per se, mais la façon dont elles sont amenées et traitées manquent cruellement d'une meilleure vulgarisation, cfr. le travail accompli par Nicholas Nassim Taleb dans [b:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 13530973 Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1352422827s/13530973.jpg 19092611].)- Approximations : deux gros points noirs pour moi (on a évité de peu le coup du clavier Qwerty qui nous ralentirait, mais c'est passé tout près). Tout d'abord non, travail ne vient pas d'un instrument de torture, cette explication sert bien sûr une narrative mais est malheureusement erronée. Second point concerne l'obsolescence programmée, où je me demande pendant encore combien d'années on va ressortir cette invention (tout au plus assiste-t'on à un problème de treadmill effect)- Absence de solution : ce livre a un très bon point, il pose effectivement un constat sur l'état actuel du monde du travail et de l'enseignement. Mais le soucis est qu'il s'arrête à cet endroit, devenant extrêmement vague dès qu'il s'agit de proposer des solutions ou même ne serait-ce que de dresser un inventaire des solutions qui existent déjà mais ne sont que très rares (pour ça je renvoie au très bon [b:Unschooling 13422377 Unschooling Astra Taylor https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1362176281s/13422377.jpg 18855494] qui a le mérite d'exposer une solution parmi tant d'autres). Le soucis que j'ai eu en lisant ce livre est qu'il s'approche dans ses propos d'une pléthore d'autres livres que j'ai lus, mais loin de les synthétiser et d'offrir un éventail de solutions, il ne fait que les effleurer.Dans l'ensemble, j'ai énormément de mal à comprendre l'idée d'Idriss Aberkane, à part qu'il faut conformer notre enseignement / mode de travail à notre cerveau (mais comment, ça...). Si l'idée générale paraît séduisante elle manque malheureusement d'énormément de contenu et c'est donc pour moi une grosse déception.Voilà qui neuro-clôture ma neuro-critique sur ce neuro-livre.

One of those little books that can teach a lot about yourself. This book made me face several questions about myself, how I was working, thinking, learning, ... and enlightened me on several things I didn't understand in my life (like why meetings have always been a torment, or why I don't get the podcast thingy, ...). Packed with a lot of wisdom and teachings, it's a great read.

Really interesting if you want to start to practice meditation, a lot of advices, tips, and will tell you how to avoid a hell lot of traps.

This review is purely personal, as I don't know if it's the translation or truly Seneca's writing, but I had a really hard trouble getting into this book. I took some small lessons from it, but it was really hard for me to even finish it, hence the 3 stars.

If you're searching for ways to “think differently” and approach problems and issues with another mind, this book could help you. But if you have read already a lot of things about business and for example design thinking, then unfortunately this book won't offer you much.

While it's greatly written, illustrated and constructed, I've felt quite disappointed when reading it. I think I was expecting a lot of new things, a new way of thinking, but the whole book proposes advices that are quite usual when you have a bit of a Design / DT background : approach from another angle, keep your mind open, give up your conceptions & ideas, ... To me this looks like a short book you could put in the hands of some executives to invite them to keep an open mind, talk to their teams, ... but for the other kind of people this falls a bit flat.

Nevertheless it wasn't bad, but I was clearly expecting more.

This book felt like an endless streak of slap in the face of every bias one might have. I think I might have checked all of them, even the one I didn't think I had. This book does a really good job in explaining our common bias by providing solid links to scientifics studies and real life examples that we can all relate too. It's a great read if you want to learn more about your behavior or why you act the way you act.

“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

It's been quite a long time since a book changed or challenged so much of the things I believed in, and this is exactly what Antifragile has done on an unbelievable amount of levels (politics, health, work, ethics, ...). With the aforementioned quote that immediately hooked me, this book makes you think on a lot of levels about how you see the world. All along, Nassim Nicholas Taleb writing is exquisite, it's really rare for such profound subjects to be treated in such a blunt, honest and straight-to-the-point way (even with some snarky comments that made me laugh out loud while reading). The book attacks a lot of things that build our society with a wonderful sense of wisdom and clarity. Armed with a bullshit detector, Nassim N. Taleb attacks everything : the way we envision society, technology, youth, medicine, drugs, business, finances, ... It's really hard to express how much this book encompass, but what is sure is that reading it will change your mind forever.

Gosh this one ripped my heart out... I don't even know if I'm able to say anything right to express how much this book made me feel. For everyone going or who went through a loved one's sickness, this is a book that might held a lot of answers. And for everyone else it is a great story. A wild one, a hard one, but a great story.

While I found “Ego is the enemy” a bit more well built, this book was really good in forcing you to envision things in a different way, helping you to cope with adversity and obstacles by changing the way you think about them (or see them, or feel them even). While still heavily based on the Stoïc teachings, Ryan Holiday offers a great lot of examples of people overcoming adversity and building something new, better and stronger upon at first seemingly impossible obstacles. Quite inspiring and really helpful for everyone willing to improve himself.

I was advised this book by a dear friend of mine, and must say that it was one of the most helping book I've read throughout the changes in my life. 6 months ago I've decided to quit my day job and start a freelance business. Since then, I've worked on some side projects, started with missions, learned new things, discovered a lot of new things / habits / people. This book helped me build this whole thing, and give me clear objectives, and a “map” of what I wanted to do with my life on the career level. It was both inspiring and reassuring and I can't stress enough how much it can help you if you're searching your path.

One year and half ago, I suscribed to the Nerd Fitness Academy and followed the path proposed on the website. This led me to some dramatical changes in my life helping me to improve myself, my health and mind. One year later I bought this book but postponed its reading, as I was going through some personal stuffs. One month ago I've made what the Academy call a “respawn” and decided to take everything back to zero. This book helped me get things back on track but with a greater view, by seeing things ahead, on a higher level than what I had done in the past, helping me setting real goals I wanted to achieve and hard-based steps that I have to follow to reach them. At the moment I cannot tell if I'll reach them, but based on my experience in the last days and month, the goals in my mind are way clearer and stronger than ever before, thanks to this book :)

Je crois que j'en ai encore des frissons partout dans le corps et des images affreuses qui se baladent dans ma tête. Je n'ai pas tendance à lire de l'horreur, mais il me semblait nécessaire de lire ce livre avant d'attaquer les Evangiles Ecarlates, je suis temporairement refroidi, le temps de purger ma tête de ces images démoniaques ! Extrêmement bien écrit, prenant et visuellement interpellant, on ne lâche pas ce livre du début à la fin, malgré l'horreur...

“Back to another popular old trope: Fake it 'til you make it. It's no surprise that such an idea has found increasing relevance in our noxiously bullshit, Nerf world. When it is difficult to tell a real producer from an adept self-promoter, of course some people will roll the dice and manage to play the confidence game. Make it so you don't have to fake it—that's they key.”

In a world based on our ego, this book is quite an eye-opener. It makes you think a lot about one's behavior and way of thinking, but also make you rethink a lot of the habits we all have in those social medias times. This book offers invaluable advices towards accomplishing real work, but also as to the way you behave everyday. It's one of those books where you highlight something in every single page and for me quite life changing and challenging. A must read for everyone nowadays.

Très intéressant bien qu'à mes yeux moins abordable que Marc Aurèle, ce petit livre remet beaucoup de choses en perspective, ne serait-ce que notre relation au travail.

Some great advices that you can apply directly in your day to day life. Handy to keep at hand and to re-read from time to time, especially when the chapter division helps you so much on where to search what you're looking for :)

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.”

This book is quite enlightening indeed, I've found in it a tremendous amount of quotes that I could relate to, teaching me valuable lessons on how to handle things in life. While it might seems a bit depressing at some point, the way it teaches to see the world can do a lot of good by helping you put things in perspective. A great book in many ways.

Une super fin de trilogie, qui clôture cette histoire en beauté. Vraiment un univers à part, qui mérite d'être découvert, des personnages attachants, le tout rehaussé par les multiples photographies intrigantes d'époque. Une très chouette histoire bien rythmée.

Retour intéressant, écrit par la main d'un enfant donc parfois un peu simple à lire. Mais en soit une belle plongée dans la tête d'un enfant surdoué

Une histoire courte sur les préjugés que l'on peut avoir l'un sur l'autre et sur cette manie de reporter les fautes des ancêtres sur des générations qui n'ont pas à en porter la responsabilité. Extrêment intéressant et bien écrit.

“Sans une réforme drastique, ce système n'en a plus pour longtemps. Quand on voit la montée de l'abstentionnisme, la désertion des militants et le mépris qui frappe les politiciens, quand on voit la difficile gestation des gouvernements, leur manque d'efficacité et la dureté de la “correction” infligée par l'électeur à l'issue de leur mandat, quand on voit la rapidité du succès du populisme, de la technocratie et de l'antiparlementarisme, quand on voit le nombre croissant de citoyens qui aspirent à plus de participation, et la vitesse à laquelle cette aspiration peut se muer en frustration, on se dit : il est moins une. Notre temps est compté.”

A l'heure où nos démocraties vont de plus en plus mal, cet ouvrage est un des premiers que je découvre qui ose remettre profondément en question notre système, ses problèmes, les défis qui s'annonce et qui s'attache justement à proposer des solutions novatrices porteuses d'espoir. Quand une portion de plus en plus importante d'électeurs se désintéresse totalement de la politique (où n'y accorde plus aucune confiance), et où la peur domine tous les débats (par le détachement de plus en plus important entre gouvernants et gouvernés), la proposition de David Van Reybrouck de “redémocratiser la démocratie” apparaît bien plus que sensée, plausible et pouvant fonctionner. Une énorme bouffée d'espoir que j'espère voir mise en place rapidement, pour notre bien à tous.

Quite an heavy read but really interesting with a lot of insights about people behavior, expectations,... The book also attacks some often uses design instructions proven to be wrong through several data, survey, scientific studies,... Overal an interesting read.