13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin. 

4/5 rating. 251 pages.

Book #7 of 2024. Finished February 7, 2024.

Book #7 of 2024. “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do” by Amy Morin. 3/5 rating. 251 pages.

This book focuses on the aspects of life that are keeping you from your optimal life of happiness and success.

Amy talks about the ideas of focusing on pitfalls on the way to success. A lot of focus today is on the things we need to do right. This makes sense! It’s important to know what we need to do in our life to make it successful in our eyes, but that’s not the only thing that matters. It’s easy to say that you should go exercise, but if you missed how important diet is and eat a dozen donuts every weekend, it is going to be nearly impossible to meet any goal of health.

Amy focuses on these 13 things that mentally strong people don’t do:

1) Feel sorry for themselves

2) Give away their power

3) Shy away from change

4) Focus on things they can’t control

5) Worry about pleasing everyone

6) Fear taking calculated risks

7) Dwell on the past

8) Make the same mistakes over and over

9) Resent other people’s success

10) Give up after their first failure

11) Fear time alone

12) Feel the world owes them anything

13) Expect immediate results

It can be easy to recognize these faults in others, but Amy does a good job of giving examples so you can more easily notice them in yourself. I thought there were some very useful tips in here. The book just didn’t wow me overall.

Quotes:

“From my training as a therapist, I knew that time doesn’t heal anything; it’s how we deal with that time that determines the speed at which we heal.”

“Anytime you don’t set healthy emotional and physical boundaries for yourself, you risk giving away your power to other people.”

“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t…It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” – James Gordon

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Increasing your mental strength isn’t about simply reading this book or declaring that you’re tough. Instead, it’s about incorporating strategies into your life that will help you reach your full potential.”

“Instead, developing mental strength means knowing that you’ll be okay no matter what happens.”

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