Letting Go of Your Bananas - Dr Daniel T. Drubin

An interesting self-help book introduced by a colleague.

The author uses bananas as a metaphor to all the bad habits and bad characteristics that everyone has. He calls it rotten bananas. The author thinks that to strive for a better life, or a better Quality of Life as he puts it, everyone should be get rid of all the rotten bananas.

However it is not as easily done as it is said. All these rotten bananas are normally things that we are very comfortable in / with. In fact, we are too comfortable with all these rotten bananas that we don't feel the motivation or the drive to change. Hence, we stick to our rotten bananas, and our Quality of Life never improves.

So it is extremely important to always put ourselves in the limelight of scrutiny and judgement, and constantly rid ourselves of the rotten bananas that have been with us prior to this day.

This book actually has some rather substantial content. It is not a bad book. But, I rather dislike the method with which the author penned this book. The author was beating around the bush too much whenever he wanted to get to a point. He could just get straight to it, yet he used various verbs (of the same meaning) and adjectives (of the same meaning) to express what he wanted to. That annoyed me a lot and disrupted my flow of reading. Hence I found it slightly difficult to finish the book. In the end, I sort of skimmed through the last few pages.

If you come across this book, you could give it a try. Like I said, the content is good. But the penmanship is not my favourite.