All We Want is Everything You Have
In times of crisis, do what you know how to do
“This book is pure self-helpy nonsense, and the author — like so many his age do — seems to think the only route to success is embracing your stupid special snowflake within.”
Goodreads reviews are brutal. What you just read is the first and last review I ever read about my book. Can I be honest? I am too cowardly to find the exact words.
The spirit of it is burned in my memory though.
Like all emotional wounds this scathing critique had a hint of truth. That book was mostly encouragement. Whole chapters were dedicated to reminding the reader that she could, in fact, do what needed to be done. I said it in various ways numerous times.
6 years removed from the book, I get the negativity. There could have been better research, stronger questions, tighter paragraphs. Maybe the book could be vastly better had I wrote it today.
Guess what?
I’m still not ashamed of the effort. Do you know why?
That book was all I had to give.
