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I read this book to learn more about empathy, but the hidden gem I found inside was not about empathy but about emotions in general. The book has six chapters, where chapter 1 is an introduction, chapters 2 and 3 are about emotions and chapters 4 through 6 tell about empathy. Chapters 2 and 3 are enough to make this entire book worthwhile! It was a real eye opener for me, and listened to them more than once to know what emotions are and what to do with them. The chapters about empathy are not bad in itself, but stand out less compared to the opening, hence the four star rating.

Light hearted and funny. Not the read of your lifetime, but a very welcome snack in between.

Nice idea, pleasant to listen to, fluffy steps

I just couldn't get myself to continue reading after being about one third in. I have no clue why, I guess the subject didn't interest me after all.

Mostly cliche about what you could and could not do in conversations. Nothing really new to anyone who can already carry a decent conversation.

Very detailed, and very interesting! However, after a certain amount of time, the amount of detail is working against the book, and it is not interesting anymore.

I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, he had very interesting points about how to be helpful to other people. In the other hand, he had cliche notions of "going deeper into the feeling" without giving more explanation how to do so. In the end, I am glad I have read it (or actually listened to it in audio format).

I started this book with the wrong assumption: that it would help me to understand how addiction to a person would work. This book assumes that you have made your mind up that you want to leave a person, that you already know that the relationship is bad for you, but that you are too weak to actually do so.

I started reading it, but felt annoyed with it after a couple of pages. Two weeks later, I tried again, but again after a few pages, I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't relate at all with the characters in the book! For me personally, breaking an addiction would be really easy. The hard part, and the reason I wanted to read this book initially, is to recognize your addiction. This book didn't help me with that at all.