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Perhaps it’s not that the book is void of anything meaningful, but that the one reading it is required to derive meaning from it, which requires practice and effort outside the actual reading of the book. I’ve found it a really great tool so far when I hit a wall creatively. Flick to a page and see if it can lead me somewhere. (Though it needn’t be this book.) I know many that are reading for the 3rd time and taking notes because there is so much inside. Maybe it’s just not the book for everyone. That makes more sense.

Ha. Sorry. This comment was meant for another. Clearly not you. 🙏🙏🙏

Guys, someone answer me if you don't mind. Almost at the beginning of the book Rick talks about how the cloud doesn't know when it's going to rain, the tree doesn't know when it's time to bloom, and the changing of the seasons, presenting it as something mysterious and mystical, as I understand it. But what is mystical and unintelligible about it? If a tree surely "understands" when to blossom as a result of a temperature change into a positive one after a long period of a negative one (surely this algorithm has already been applied to trees by hundreds of thousands of years of natural evolution or by millions)
The same is true of the cloud that "decides" when to let it rain, for it probably does this simply due to simple physical laws (evaporation, change of air temperature, gravity).
If our planet flew around the sun not along a smoothly changing every year but the same trajectory there would not be a change of seasons at all, surely there are such planets in space.
Answer please someone if it is not difficult, why these things Rick presents as something mystical

It sort of sounds like you've rated it 5-stars simply because of who wrote it, rather than because you've found the content of the book to be 5-star worthy!

This book is a glimpse into the mind of one of the most creative people in music. I find it fascinating learning how he thinks, even if it doesn’t make sense. For me, a nonfiction book doesn’t have to be “well written�� to get five stars. It just has to be honest and that I learn something from it. I’m not going to try and tell one of the most brilliant minds in music that he doesn’t write well enough for me.

Apparently a lot of readers here didn't read Rick's little verse at the beginning that includes this: Some ideas may resonate,
others may not.
A few may awaken and inner knowing
you forgot you had.
Use what's helpful.
Let go of the rest.

For me, this is a great book of ideas and thoughts. Hugely useful and motivating!