Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life by Ken Robinson, 3/5

If only someone would write a self-help book for people who are too cynical and pessimistic for self-help books.  Not that it would help.

Anyway, I skimmed through this but was feeling much too depressed to ponder any of the ponderous questions that lurked at the end of every chapter or to do any of the numerous thought-exercises.  I know that makes this review about as legitimate as a review of a diet book that was read while eating Twinkies, but what can I say – when you’re not thinking positively, then “thinking more” (which is, practically speaking, the solution Robinson proposes) does not seem likely to help.  Also, the book’s subtitle makes me want to puke.  And the cover is too colourful.

[Why I read it: I ordered it from the library after watching an interesting interview with the author.   However, it turned out to look a heck of a lot like your ordinary, bullshit self-help book and I was in a bad mood anyway, so I lost interest and only read it very late at night, when my brain was too tired to process the book on theoretical physics that I was also in the middle of.]