How To Use This Book

This is a not a book of daily meditations or prayers. This is a book of ideas. It is a book that asks you to think about how and why you eat. It is a book that offers insights and tries to show you the tools you already have at hand. This is not the kind of book you sit through in one sitting or read a section a day and get it. To make this work for you it must be internalized. There is only one way that I know of to truly internalize something. Only one way to truly learn use a tool. Repetition. You must practice every day. You must read a chapter over and over for many days. Try to read the same section every day for a week. Find what works for you. This is a framework not a prescription.

This is not a race to get through the knowledge and be tested and declared a winner. This is not like going to the surgeon to remove a mole “wham bam” DONE! This is a master’s degree in your life. This is a practice. This is you trying to change the way you live. This is a deep dive into you own thinking. Your own motivations and triggers. This is you trying to lay new tracks on which to run. This takes focus, effort, and persistence. Especially on those days that it everything sucks or you just have no strength or you don’t care. ESPECIALLY on those days you must persist and stick to it. Self-directed change is hard. Anyone that tells you otherwise is trying to sell you a magic pill or some such worthless trinket.

So don’t race to the end of the book. There is no final plot twist. Read a bit at a time. Make each chapter a practice of days. Like a piano player forever practicing scales, return, reread, contemplate again each section, on occasion, to refresh your practice. Take your time. It took your whole life to get where you are do not expect that it will change by reading one book one time in a few days. Remember that you are in charge of your life and only you, through hard work and intent, can make the change.