Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and it’s all small stuff
Richard Carlson, Hyperion (1996)

For weeks, a friend kept suggesting that I read this book and I finally relented today — and I am glad I checked it out from the library instead of buying it.

I am utterly boggled as to how this terrible book became a best-seller.  I appreciate the meaning and message, but it was so thin in actual content that it left me feeling cheated and annoyed.  The book is nothing more than a list of 100 generic positive affirmations stretched out over 200+ pages and it ends up being trite and repetitive.  Frankly, there is more valuable advice on the side of Starbucks cups.

Each chapter is barely a page long and contains just a bit of dull anedoctal evidence to support the theme.  To add to the misery, you will find yourself experiencing déjà vu every few chapters as you read essentially the same thing Carlson wrote a few pages back.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff is just a terribly simple book geared at weak people who lack so much confidence that they can’t even tell they’re being scammed as they read it.