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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

Essays on Modern Life

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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

By: Pandora Sykes
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Modern life is full of choices. But how do we know what our best life looks like? And what if we get it wrong?

Incisive, wide-ranging and witty, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?, explores the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives. Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we’ve been sold and the ones we tell ourselves - from happiness to wellness, womanhood to consumerism - in ways that are both surprising and reassuring.

With insight and warmth, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? will spark a thousand conversations and encourage us to find our own path to contentment.

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I really enjoy Pandora Sykes on her now sadly finished podcast The High Low, and perhaps I listened too closely to it because this essay collection although clearly well researched and the result of much hard work didn’t offer many new ideas that hadn’t already been discussed on the podcast. I purchased it because I wanted to hear more from this sharp mind as I appreciate her insights and thoughtful analyses on so many varying issues and topics, but it felt like the same content in university thesis form.
It just wasn’t what i was expecting as I do enjoy Pandora’s long form journalism, but this didn’t feel the same. I totally appreciate all the hard work that was put in though and if you haven’t listened to the podcast I think the ideas in the book are well worth soaking up and pondering!

Well researched

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Loved it, everyone should listen to this. Articulate, informed and well read. Download this now.

loved it

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Loved this. Took ages to listen as a kept having to pause, reflect, replay, reflect more and then continue. I think I’ll purchase a physical copy I can annotate as well. Definitely recommend.

Guarantee you’ll gain insight from this book

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I couldn’t finish this. I went to just over an hour of listening and absolutely couldn’t understand why she’d written this or how on earth it got published. It genuinely read like an ok undergrad sociology dissertation which I’d grade at 2:2. It’s just gathering other people’s opinions and writing them down with very little analysis. There very little original thought, just regurgitating that of others. It’s not even entertaining. The narration is bizzare as well, again sounds like a teenager reading aloud, doesn’t flow or is in any way natural.

Reads like an ok sociology dissertation

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I'm struggling to write a review as this was a book that I listened to over 12 months. I really enjoyed the first half and enjoyed her insight and knowledge on certain subjects (keeping up with fashion trends) but the last half was painful. it just went around and around and became wishy un-insightful. to me these ideas are great podcast chats but in a book became monotonous.

this took me 12 months

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