A hybrid work. Part Jordan Peterson’s bro life-hack manual slash pop philosophy...part Instagram motivational quotes slash Arianna Huffington’s obsession with 'thriving', it is threaded through with relevant memoir ... There’s plenty of humour to offset the more Sandhursty bits ... The triumph of this book is that it’s quite rare in the self-help canon – or what publishers now term personal development – to not make a cynic such as myself roll their eyes, and this one doesn’t. It’s a shame that whoever was responsible for the jacket blurbs takes a shoving-a-finger-in-your chest approach that isn’t replicated by the variable tone inside, which is sometimes dogmatic but often reflects the genuine kindness and enthusiasm of its author. Be Useful, it turns out, is very helpful.
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