This book was very repetitive of the first two and I can’t tell if the guy likes telling the same stories over and over or if they repeated content between the books.  I think it is the former.  He references many of the good books and studies I’ve been listening to lately, like the marshmallow experiment from the willpower instinct.  I really enjoy the points he has on mindfulness and not being attached to emotion, but I still can’t get behind the end goal.  If the end goal is enlightenment and enlightenment is being fully detached from the world, then that is something that I don’t want.  I want to be fully attached to the world, but in control of myself.  I want to rule over my instinct, emotions, desires, and thoughts so that they don’t rule over me.  To do this I think the practices of Buddhism are very spot on, but the end goals that we strive for diverge greatly.

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