"Menurutku banyak banget statement seakan-akan memberikan label tertentu sama manusia yang hidup di dunia maya. Yes, going offline is good. Break is good. Tapi membuat seakan-akan orang yang hodup di dunia maya menyedihkan dan buruk banget, well kayaknya seharusnya bukan alasan kenapa buku ini ditulis, kan?"

"Wow, jangan percaya dengan hype sebuah buku karena kelak kamu akan kecewa dan saya mengalaminya setelah membaca buku ini. Awalnya saya sangat mengekspektasikan buku ini akan spektakuler dan memberi informasi baru mengenai distraksi dunia online.

Namun, sepanjang saya membaca, saya mendapat kesan menggurui sampai akhir halaman. Kebanyakan menebar quote Pinterest dan Google Image membuat saya rolling my eyes lol
Saya berharap ada beberapa kisah yang dekat dengan pembaca bukan terlalu berpusat pada penulis. Maaf, kalau saya yang nggak punya AC ini nggak bisa relate dengan AC di kamarmu yang selalu menyala, Desi. Pengulangan kata dan juga kalimat yang sebenarnya tidak perlu tapi diperlukan untuk mempertebal halaman (saya tahu betapa sulitnya untuk mengejar deadline editor).

Mungkin sebagai pekerja kreatif yang mengharuskan menatap layar 10 jam sehari bukan target market buku ini melainkan anak muda (semua produk sepertinya mengincar anak muda entah mengapa) yang "ketagihan medsos"

Ironinya adalah bahwa jawaban mengenai distraksi online, sebenarnya sudah bisa kita temukan sepanjang mencarinya di dunia online."

"I don't know if I can get through all of this. I've never reviewed a book before I finished it, but I feel it's warranted here.

First, the title is a bait and switch as it is all about Western Adlerian psychology, not anything Japanese.

It's outdated. It's almost incoherent if you know anything about psychological or biological research of the last 80 years. Adler has the excuse of not knowing about that because he's dead. The authors of this book do not.

So far, the book is a circular argument: people choose their emotions to justify their goals. And people choose their goals because of fear. Y'all, fear is an emotion.

This book isn't deep or presenting anything I haven't heard a million times in pop psychology that's rampant in the west. It is victim blaming and presents all the ideas that our society uses to justify injustice. If this book accurately portrays Adler, it's not a surprise that Adler was a white man and that Dale Carniege loved him.

People born with nervous systems better adept at handling modern life/trauma and naturally skilled in self regulation will continue to find ways to pretend that we live in a meritocracy to justify their priviledged position in society.

The same people who expouse these ideas have no problem using modern science and behaviorism in social engineering to exploit the fact that you don't have as much free will as you're made to believe.

If you want some Eastern philosophy that teaches you how to not give a shit if people like you, I'd recommend Buddhism. It holds up to modern science much better than this."