[tclancy]

As someone in their 50s with a kid, work and a busy life, I’ve found the unlovable fact of it is these things resist a How To guide. It’s sort of like the thing about anyone who wants to be a politician shouldn’t be allowed to. If someone is distilling these things into a How To, at best, they grasp the ideas but lack the perspective that their lived experience isn’t anyone else’s, so the context is all lost. The bits and pieces that I’ve come to think which map up with the author’s tend to be found in books that lack a goal or a point.

As an aside, the Internet-driven grindset that everything, even a hobby, should have a point is one to resist with all your might. Think of the times you laughed loudest playing with your kids; I doubt you all were trying to achieve a goal beyond being together having fun.