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  • You're Not That Great

  • (but neither is anyone else)
  • By: Elan Gale
  • Narrated by: Elan Gale
  • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (145 ratings)

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You're Not That Great

By: Elan Gale
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A hilarious, scathing send up of the self-help genre in the best-selling tradition of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck from social media mogul and The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.

I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.

I care more about feeling great than being great.

I am NOT THAT GREAT.

The self-help industry tells you that if you're positive, if you put your best foot forward, and if you just believe in yourself that you will find happiness. Let's be real. You can read all the inspirational quotes you want. You can spend your days giving yourself affirmations in your heart-shaped mirror and trying to learn to love yourself. You can say your mantra over and over again while sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in a Whole Foods parking lot. But the truth is, you're not a badass, and you still don't have the life you want.

That's where You're Not That Great (but neither is anyone else) comes in. This book teaches you how to harness all the negativity in the world and use it to improve your life, taking everyday feelings like self-loathing, regret, and shame and making them work for you.

Positive thinking is for assholes. Negative thinking is for winners.

©2017 Elan Gale (P)2017 Hachette Audio
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Love the point of view!

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I loved that the writer was honest and gave a completely different perspective than I am used to hearing.

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Good message but lacking explicit strategies

This book provides a good description of a new way of thinking, why the old way is not helping you achieve your goals, and why this new way is better. But it lacks explanation of how this really works. Other than simply mind over matter, it does not offer many ideas. You are on your own to figure out how you will take this new information and apply it to your life. Not a bad thing as we are all different and will interpret this differently, just an observation.

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Not your typical self help book

For a self help junkie like myself this book was the opposite of everything I had read before. I was shocked and had to laugh at some of the things in this book and wonder wow maybe I have been thinking wrong this entire time. Keep am open mind and you will love this book.

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The ending was endearing!

The first few chapters were a little hard for me to get through, but the ending talking about alcohol and weight issues was very endearing and made me fall back in love with Elan.

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Nega-Scott

Without the negative there can be no positive, and with that said reflect upon yourself.

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Rude awakening and funny way to feel less shity

The narration is hysterical and the concept is quite profound. Unravel every self-help book you've ever read and do yourself a favor and take in this dose of reality and mind shift. A perfect combination of making you laugh and think.

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Interesting and humorous combined.

I enjoyed the way he used humor while telling the reader they aren't that good.

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Gritty and realistic, necessary read

Refreshing and realistic, funny and fun filled. A gold way to get the feedback needed to get to the next level. Love the honesty in this book! 100% would recommend to those with a curious and insatiable thirst for success and self improvement.

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Harnessing the Winds of Negativity to Sail Onward

This book defies description. The author makes you mad. He makes you sad. He builds you up. And then he knocks you down again.

If doing mantras in the mirror is working for you, keep that up. But if you find yourself frustrated by going meaning encouragement and sycophantic praise, it's time to make some changes.

Personally I've been an ardent student of the self-development community since 2012. It wasn't until late in 2015 that I started getting the negative messages from key allies that fueled my ego with a burning desire to prove them wrong. Until that point, I'd been driven by the hunger to prove my self wrong about my inner doubts.

If you take the advice as intended, you're going to experience some negative emotions along the way through this is a book. That's a good thing. Hold onto those bad feelings, they will fuel your passion.

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Ironically, so great!

This book, “counter-intuitively”, to the title was one of the most motivating books I have read/listened to in a long time. It induced a paradigm shift that I plan to embrace.

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