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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the stuff I find annoying about Glennon is the same stuff that makes her appealing.

She has basically gone through a public midlife crisis and figured out some basic stuff that plenty of us need time and midlife crises to figure out. Stuff like being true to yourself and not locking yourself down to the life you committed to in your 20s just out of obligation, etc. Valuable lessons, yes, but also free ones to anyone who just... lives life and tries. The stuff she talks about is both profound and prosaic -- it's just very typical midlife stuff.

Which is why I find her annoying. To me, she is like that one friend who got divorced and reinvented herself and now thinks everyone needs to listen to what she learned. Except it's like she's forgotten that while she was doing those things, the rest of us were also have experiences (different ones, often!) and also learning things, and maybe don't need to be lectured on life. I just can't stand how she positions herself as an authority when her "expertise" is basically just living life and making a few choices to make her specific life better than it was before. I also think she drafts off Abby's fame a lot in very annoying ways.

Totally different vibe from Brenee Brown. She can be annoying sometimes (I tried to listen to her podcast, but it just grates) but she only became famous because her area of research just randomly resonated with a ton of people. She did one TED talk on shame and people went crazy over it because it was like "Oh, yes, this is precisely what is happening in my life." I agree that as she's expanded beyond that, the quality of the work is thinner -- I am a lot less interested in her more recent books and think the stuff on leadership and the more corporate-focused stuff is very meh. But I read the book she wrote on women and shame before she was a household name and it resonated with me so much. I still think about it. I think she's genuinely helped liberate a lot of people from living in shame and that's really worthwhile.

I don't think Glennon has actually changed anyone's life in that way, except her own.[/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

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