Brian    King

The Art of Taking It Easy

Ivy X

Started off strong but got repetitive and generic fast 
Writing is also lacking 

Quotes
- Ultimately overcoming stress and managing its impact on our lives depends on this basic realization: most of our stress is from perceived threats, not clear and present threats. 

-But what if there is nothing you can do about it, what is the point of allowing yourself to get stressed? 

-And that's the thing about worrying, it does nothing to prevent bad things from happening. Worrying does not affect the outcome of a situation, it doesn't make adverse events less likely to occur, it just makes our life less great. 

-...optimistic people have pessimistic thoughts all the time. The most optimistic people among us are still plagued by negative thoughts, the difference is that they don't dwell on them or ruminate.

Briar Rose

DNF at around 30%.

Comedian/psychologist who states upfront that he has no tendency toward anxiety writes a book telling people not to be anxious, with the apparent assumption that physiological stress responses are entirely controllable via conscious thoughts and decisions. (Spoiler alert: For some of us, they aren’t. At all. I have panic attacks in my sleep.)

Book turns out to be neither especially funny nor especially insightful. Maybe it got better eventually, but I was teetering between boredom and annoyance, and stopped torturing myself.

The Art of Taking It Easy

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