Save time, read a few articles instead.

This book hits the mark occasionally and has some good points. Despite this the book seems a little weak, I get that most self help books need pathos to gain the trust of its intended audience, but the examples it gives of past presonal situations and 'clients' comes across a little flat.

The philosophy it references to address self worth is relativism, that if nothing is true then you can choose how you interpret yourself anyway you want, which seems to be the current trend for experiencing the world socially and politically, at least from the left, so nothing new there. It also seems a little hypocritical that the author states in the book she no longer suffers from problems with overachievement and then in her next breath lists all of her achievements.

The book is definitely geared towards a middle class female perspective, although some of the book could still help some men. It is also difficult to listen to a narrator that sounds like a teenager constantly using upward inflections making every couple of sentences sound like a question when it isn't.

Because the book is so short, most if not all of the important information in here could be put into a single article with a few cognitive behavioural therapy exercises listed at the bottom.

After all that there aren't many books specifically on overachievement as a problem, most of them are books on HOW to achieve more. I think if this book was updated in a new edition that was geared to both sex's and went into better detail (with exercises that are more involved) it could become a very useful book.

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