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A review by greden
Coffee Self-Talk: 5 Minutes a Day to Start Living Your Magical Life by Kristen Helmstetter
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I was gifted a Spanish version of this book, by someone who didn't into account that I don't know Spanish nor drink coffee. But I'm grateful for the book anyway, as I used it to learn the language, and actually, the book is great for learning, as it's easy, the subject is familiar and it's extremely repetitive.
The premise of the book is that you say positive affirmations to yourself while drinking coffee. Since caffeine is associated with dopamine release, and therefore you have a greater chance of developing habits if you connect it with caffeine. You will also associate thinking positively about yourself with the good feelings of the dopamine rush from the caffeine.
Caffeine is my favorite drug, and I try to avoid it as best as I can, one of the reasons is illustrated by the book itself. I think an ungrounded optimism is creepy, and that's what I felt this book was, it was written under the influence of caffeine... it's a lot of content, its light-weight happiness, its repetitiveness, and its lack of depth, perfectly resembles what I don't like about caffeine.
On the other hand, she has managed to develop a great output of writing, and it's impressive to have finished a book, let alone, the amount of romance novels she has been able to produce. So, caffeine is a double-edged sword, in that it creates economic reward.
Anyway, I suppose this can be helpful for a lot of people, but Helmsetter admits that she's probably in the 99th percentile of suggestiveness. As for me, this simply does not work for me, I could never go to the gym, for example, and tell myself lies... either I feel good or I feel bad. I guess I'm just not that suggestible, and thus I've come away with this book with no real tools or change of mind. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly in much of what's in this book, such as the power of thought, but I'd recommend instead finding better sources on this, such as Tony Robbins.
As a self-help book, it's okay, I guess. It does the typical thing, talks about neurotransmitters, and the law of attraction, and borrows a lot from other books, such as Atomic Habits, I don't see much original here, and with the original premise, to combine caffeine with self-talk, I disagree with. So there's not much here that I liked. Not my cup of tea.
The premise of the book is that you say positive affirmations to yourself while drinking coffee. Since caffeine is associated with dopamine release, and therefore you have a greater chance of developing habits if you connect it with caffeine. You will also associate thinking positively about yourself with the good feelings of the dopamine rush from the caffeine.
Caffeine is my favorite drug, and I try to avoid it as best as I can, one of the reasons is illustrated by the book itself. I think an ungrounded optimism is creepy, and that's what I felt this book was, it was written under the influence of caffeine... it's a lot of content, its light-weight happiness, its repetitiveness, and its lack of depth, perfectly resembles what I don't like about caffeine.
On the other hand, she has managed to develop a great output of writing, and it's impressive to have finished a book, let alone, the amount of romance novels she has been able to produce. So, caffeine is a double-edged sword, in that it creates economic reward.
Anyway, I suppose this can be helpful for a lot of people, but Helmsetter admits that she's probably in the 99th percentile of suggestiveness. As for me, this simply does not work for me, I could never go to the gym, for example, and tell myself lies... either I feel good or I feel bad. I guess I'm just not that suggestible, and thus I've come away with this book with no real tools or change of mind. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly in much of what's in this book, such as the power of thought, but I'd recommend instead finding better sources on this, such as Tony Robbins.
As a self-help book, it's okay, I guess. It does the typical thing, talks about neurotransmitters, and the law of attraction, and borrows a lot from other books, such as Atomic Habits, I don't see much original here, and with the original premise, to combine caffeine with self-talk, I disagree with. So there's not much here that I liked. Not my cup of tea.