You're Not That Great

(but neither is anyone else)

By: Elan Gale

Narrated by: Elan Gale

Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's Summary

A hilarious, scathing send up of the self-help genre in the best-selling tradition of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck from social media mogul and The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.

I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.

I care more about feeling great than being great.

I am NOT THAT GREAT.

The self-help industry tells you that if you're positive, if you put your best foot forward, and if you just believe in yourself that you will find happiness. Let's be real. You can read all the inspirational quotes you want. You can spend your days giving yourself affirmations in your heart-shaped mirror and trying to learn to love yourself. You can say your mantra over and over again while sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in a Whole Foods parking lot. But the truth is, you're not a badass, and you still don't have the life you want. 

That's where You're Not That Great (but neither is anyone else) comes in. This book teaches you how to harness all the negativity in the world and use it to improve your life, taking everyday feelings like self-loathing, regret, and shame and making them work for you. 

Positive thinking is for assholes. Negative thinking is for winners. 

©2017 Elan Gale (P)2017 Hachette Audio

just no :(

Just no... if you can make yourself stomach the majority of it, the last 4 chapters have some great information & thoughts, and are more what I expected and hoped this book to be!

I really wanted to love this, but the first three quarters of it consist of the author being bitter and mean spirited toward anyone or any idea that differs from his own. There is little to no cohesion and the book is hard to follow as he bounces from idea to idea. All the while he continues to talk himself up, while bashing the rest of all of humanity. Dissaponited. :(

Ironically, so great!

This book, “counter-intuitively”, to the title was one of the most motivating books I have read/listened to in a long time. It induced a paradigm shift that I plan to embrace.

Not your typical self help book

For a self help junkie like myself this book was the opposite of everything I had read before. I was shocked and had to laugh at some of the things in this book and wonder wow maybe I have been thinking wrong this entire time. Keep am open mind and you will love this book.

Not that great

Aside from a few chuckles in the beginning (which weren't helpful) This book reads like an oscar winners acceptance speech. The author simply wanted to toot his own horn and the book sucked balls.

Not helpful

You want honesty, I'll give you honesty: this book had a promising concept but is majorly frustrating and not worth the read. It spends most of its content trying to convince you of something you already know - that you're not that great. No one who picks up a book called "You're not that great" needs that amount of convincing!

I picked it up because I wanted some actual insight on how to hold myself accountable for my bullshit and use my anxiety to be productive. Did it do that? Sort of, about 5% of the time, when it wasn't busy kicking in open doors or trying to be funny instead of useful.

Also, some of this advice is just harmful. I know what I get like if I don't take time off now and then - I become an irritable, egocentric shell of a human who's no good to anyone. No thanks.

Love the point of view!

What did you love best about You're Not That Great?

I loved that the writer was honest and gave a completely different perspective than I am used to hearing.

Half this book has great advice. The other half doesnt

This book is about someone who has overcome alcholism but hitting rock bottom and never really putting in the self reflective work and trauma work that is needed to heal. His way of thinking might get you by for a time, but its not going to make you a happy human being in the long run.

Interesting and humorous combined.

I enjoyed the way he used humor while telling the reader they aren't that good.

Rude awakening and funny way to feel less shity

The narration is hysterical and the concept is quite profound. Unravel every self-help book you've ever read and do yourself a favor and take in this dose of reality and mind shift. A perfect combination of making you laugh and think.

Nega-Scott

Without the negative there can be no positive, and with that said reflect upon yourself.