The research of this book is very interesting, to be honest it’s more a formatting issue for me. I find books without foot/end note numbers very frustrating, there were just highlighted passages in the back that correlate to research or other information, but you don’t know if what you’re reading has a citation note in the moment you’re reading it. This is a personal pet peeve of mine in nonfiction, so I struggled with finding my “groove” reading this book. Also, some things just didn’t age well since when this book was published, like the multiple references to Louis C.K, and some parts just seemed a little . . . Tone deaf? For instance, his discussion of SATs and college admission kind of just boiling down to if you are good at self-control. I’ll be reading some of that research now, because I’d love to know what else was controlled for there. 

In the end, this was intriguing, but the formatting and some of the glazed-over ideas made this difficult for me to really enjoy.