I got this book for my birthday last month. I just finished reading it yesterday.
I found it got fairly obnoxious and almost put it down.
It was starting off well with his personal experiences.. but then it got very annoying in a typical psychology way.. it turned into him lecturing about a bunch of stuff in a pop-psych way from a professorial/expert viewpoint on a subject he just finished telling you he was no expert at. And meanwhile he is constantly reminding you about how privileged he is to have an academic position that pays him to go learn guitar full time for 2 years and he is constantly name dropping all these famous players/teachers he dropped in on.
The way he talks about things that are settled when they are really not strikes me as common in many areas of psychology.
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