I picked this book up purely because one of my favorite phrases when writing my dissertation was "It's like climbing a mountain, but the mountain is yourself."


Also, 'Death is certain. Passing is not'

This book is brief pop-psychology claptrap. Wiest identifies Resistance (see Pressfield's fantastic The War of Art for more) as a key barrier between the life you are leading, and the life you want to lead, but does not offer much about how to conquer resistance, how to know the difference between times when you should push forward and times you should draw back. The advice is to trust your instincts, not intrusive and misleading repetitive thoughts, but the end result is a kind of anodyne "BONG, you are now enlightened."