Lighter

It was good at the beginning and then it started to feel like I'm sitting in a never ending lecture. It's like trying to learn how to play basketball by attending a blow by blow talk on how to flex your wrist joints or improve your jump steps. Unfortunately it felt repetitive, theoretical and uninspired. There are many, many great philosophers that came before him and vivid storytellers that came after. This was neither. Not that this is a judgement on the author's own journey, which is beautiful and transformative and great but a 5 hour read on meditation and the last chapter on how he wants the world to be changed (which was decidedly and unexpectedly political) is not what I signed up for.