Get your sh*t together by Sarah Knight
- Shalini Prasad
- Aug 11, 2018
- 3 min read
We’ve all lost our shit some time or the other, and looking for guidance is the first thing that we do (after we get over the denial phase of it). My colleague had hauled in a dozen books from the book sale event she found on Facebook. I was maxed out on my book allowance for the month so I had to stay put. But that never keeps me from borrowing books from friends even as my TBR pile gets taller every day. I saw Get your sh*t together on my friend’s list and I immediately wanted to borrow it. I was looking to sort out a few things in life and the title suggested to me that the author may provide the tough love I needed to get shit done.
Synopsis
Do you find yourself snowed under at the office, or even just glued to the couch, when all you really want is to leave on time, get to the gym, and finally start that fun project you’re always putting off? Then you’ve really got to Get your sh*t together.
Knight’s first book was about discarding the things that you don’t give a fuck about. This book is about organising what’s left; everything you care about and want to do well and succeed in life by doing so. How to stop worrying about what you should do so you can finish what you need to do and start doing what you want to do. Basically, how to get your shit together.
Review
This is not a conventional self-help book. This is a book that helps you get out of your own way in order to achieve your dreams, or so it claims to be. The introduction alone drags on and on for pages and any amount of useful advice you can find in this book is padded with a lot of puns.
The only advice I remember from this book is to make a list, make time to complete the items on the list and complete the task on the list. It is the simplest advice out there. Of course, everyone knows making a list is the best way to tackle a big problem. People who tend to turn to books like this are usually someone who keeps trying to better themselves and a list is the first thing that they would do. At least, that’s what I did.
She offers similar advice throughout the book and by the end, I had forgotten most of them as the advice was wrapped in a bundle of stories about the author herself. She rambles on and on about herself and her compulsive need to be funny at every sentence threw me off the insight she was trying to present. It seemed like Knight was trying too hard to be funny and missing the mark most of the time.
Although this is mentioned as an unconventional book and the author uses a lot of shit in her writing, which to me seems like she is trying to be hip, to be a rebel of sorts.
I have never seen a book with this much padding while the actual information that may be useful to readers can be brought down to a hundred pages or so. Her writing was fun at the beginning of the book, but the constant funny bits in the book was becoming tiresome.
If you want some real advice on how to get your shit together, I would not suggest this book. However, if all you’re looking for is some witty banter to occupy your time, by all means, grab a copy of this book.
Rating: 2.5/5
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