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I liked that the book showed a number of people fighting for what they thought was right whether they were artists or working at an NGO or game developers or athletes. It really highlighted the point if you want something, you need to fight for it. What the book didn't do is demonstrate that work doesn't love you back. It told the story of 10 to 15 people who were not fulfilled or happy in life and blamed work and capitalism for this. I think you could have just as easily found 10 to 15 people who were fulfilled or happy and said work was responsible for this. To me, this was much more of a correlation for these people than a causality. The cause could be a number of things from too much social media, politics being too divisive (like this book) to too much video gaming. I don't think it proved the point that work was the cause here. Personally, while I found work was hard at times, it pushed me into being a much better person. I learned how to deal with my introversion, I learned how to lead people, I learned how to listen better, and I learned how to be a better team player. Finally, the concluding chapter was weak. It pushed we should all work less and love more. I agree about loving more but I felt the book overlooked the fact that somebody needs to get the food, somebody needs to distribute it, somebody needs to learn to be a doctor, someone needs to fix the cars, someone needs to make the movies we all watch on Netflix. It's not feasible that we don't work and have all the things we want into today's life for free.