Your Life Isnt for You, Seth Adam Smith
Your Life Isnt for You, Seth Adam Smith
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Your Life Isn't for You
A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

Author: Seth Adam Smith

Narrator: Seth Adam Smith

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/01/2014

Synopsis

In this audio book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post “Marriage Isn’t for You”—which received over 30 million hits and has been translated into over twenty languages—and shares how living for others can enrich every aspect of your life, just as it has his. With a mix of humor, candor, and compassion, he reveals how, years before his marriage, his self-obsession led to a downward spiral of addiction and depression, culminating in a suicide attempt at the age of twenty. Reflecting on the love and support he experienced in the aftermath, as well as on the lessons he learned from a difficult missionary stint in Russia, his time as a youth leader in the Arizona desert, his marriage, and even a story his father read to him as a child, he shares his deep conviction that the only way you can find your life is to give it away to others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on December 13, 2024

This short book is a good reminder to not be a completely selfish asshole, which is a reminder most of use could use fairly often.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 18, 2022

2.5 stars. I read this as an audiobook, and the tone and pitch of the narrator were excellent. However, the book didn't do what I expected it to do at all. I thought going in that this was going to be about learning to be selfless, as advertised. As it turned out, this book was about something both......more

Goodreads review by Assem on November 10, 2016

The lines of this book have been written with love and the writer's friends and relatives are the heroes of the book -which is about his suicide attempt and how he have changed since then-. One of the best quotes written in this book was told by on of his friends (Vladimir) "I believe that God makes u......more

Goodreads review by Re • on January 07, 2021

i read this via audiobook because a section of this was part of my children's lit class as technically book (#4). it's VERY aware, TW: for suicide. it's short and to the point, i liked the author's candour, and how succinct he was about making a point that this book is solely about him. and I liked t......more

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