Is The Power of Now too woo-woo or actually useful?
I keep seeing it recommended alongside Atomic Habits and Deep Work but it feels like a different category of book — more spiritual than practical. Is it worth reading?
I keep seeing it recommended alongside Atomic Habits and Deep Work but it feels like a different category of book — more spiritual than practical. Is it worth reading?
The core idea — that most suffering comes from dwelling in the past or future rather than the present moment — is genuinely useful and grounded in Buddhist philosophy and modern psychology. Strip away the mystical language and it holds up.
It's useful if you approach it as a meditation framework rather than literal metaphysics. The woo-woo framing is distracting but the practice is real.
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