Get Out of Your Own Way
A Skeptic’s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
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4.3 • 86 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The idea that you could be more but got in your own way should wake you up in the middle of the night. Dave Hollis used to think that “personal growth” was just for broken people, then he woke up.
When a looming career funk, a growing drinking problem, and a challenging trek through therapy battered Dave Hollis, a Disney executive and father of four, he began to realize he was letting untruths about himself dictate his life. As he sank to the bottom of his valley, he had to make a choice. Would he push himself out of his comfort zone to become the best man he was capable of being, or would he play it safe and settle for mediocrity?
In Get Out of Your Own Way, Dave tackles topics he once found it difficult to be honest about, things like his struggles with alcohol and his insecurities about being a dad.
Offering encouragement, challenges, and a hundred moments to laugh, Dave will help you:
Discover the way for those of us who are, like he was, skeptical of self-help but wanting something more than the status quoDrop negative ideas about who we are supposed to be and finally start living as who we really areSee our own journeys more clearly as he unpacks the lies he once believed—such as “I Have to Have It All Together” and “Failure Means You’re Weak”Learn the tools that helped him change his life, and may change your life too
Get Out of Your Own Way is a call to arms for anyone who’s interested in a more fulfilled life, who, along the way, may have lost their “why” and now wonders how to unlock their potential or be better for their loved ones.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Much of what you believe about yourself might be based on lies. That’s the harsh but ultimately freeing realization that Dave Hollis had while climbing out of a depression a few years ago. Inspired by the openness of his wife—the best-selling author of Girl, Wash Your Face—Hollis engaged in deep self-examination, unearthing 19 common false beliefs that quietly sabotage emotional health, especially in men. In a refreshingly candid style, Hollis describes his experience with each of these false notions, like the belief that your role in a relationship is constant and fixed, which stops you from being able to accommodate both partners’ growth. Or the idea that everyone around you is critically focused on what you’re doing, when most folks are preoccupied with their own stuff. Hollis wraps up each fallacy with a bulleted list of ways he changed his thoughts and actions to banish these beliefs. This orderly, reasonable approach to a vulnerable topic makes Hollis’ insights easy to absorb for people not accustomed to self-examination. Hollis doesn’t present himself as a life coach or any other kind of expert—and it’s his guy-at-the-end-of-the-bar approachability that makes his book work. If he can get out of his own way, then we can too.
Customer Reviews
Amazing!
Amazing read! This book inspired so many changes in my life!!!!
Word Salad
Listen, I want to be a positive person and try to see through the garbage that this book is but I just can’t. This book is terribly written, misguided, and full of awful advice from a person that is not qualified to be coaching people how to live your life. Dave Hollis has no degree in psychology, no legitimate history in a career that helps people. He is just another middle aged white dude that has money and privilege that thinks he can tell you how to live your life without acknowledging that he had a head start in everything in life. Save your money. There are far better books out there that can help you.
REAL Tools for REAL Life!
Reading this book felt like getting advice from a “big brother” who generally had my best interest at heart. I feel like I have real tools now that I can apply in real life scenarios, not just a bunch of clever, cliché sayings or theories.