Books/Slipstream Time Hacking

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Subtitle: How to cheat time, live more, and enhance happiness
Author: Benjamin P. Hardy

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About the author

Benjamin Hardy is a writer whom I've been following since he was a blogger. In my opinion, his secret of success is honesty. He only writes about things that worked for him. His writing isn't instructional like most self-help books. It's more of a documentation of his own discoveries in life. The author also does a lot of disciplined reading and uses quotes wherever possible.


Concepts

Time is more about distance traveled.

Some people live more in a day than others do in years.

Time slows down when you are doing meaningful things you love. Time speeds up when you are doing things you don't like.

Slipstreaming is like taking a wormhole and reaching your destination using much less time than usually required.

Review

Slipstreams are a way of hacking your way to your desired results faster instead of taking the long route. This book is about traveling forward in time to your goals. It's about bringing your goals from the far future into the near future.

Most of the book is about convincing you that time is relative to the observer and that slipstreams exist. The only actionable things for me are how to find wormholes and use them to travel faster towards your goals.

Slipstreams

The author had a slipstream experience when he got married to a relatively wealthier person. She was able to pay off his college loans immediately. This got him out of 20 years of debt. If paying off college loans is a goal, the author found a slipstream to reach it almost instantly instead of 20 years. This kind of slipstream is pure luck. But there are other slipstreams that you can find with targeted efforts.

Some useful slipstreams:

  • Mentorship
  • Joining a group like a mastermind
  • Slipstreaming collectively as a tribe

This area of self-help seems to be under-developed at present. Maybe more research will be done in the future into this.

Critique

In the beginning parts of the book, the author mixes up science and self-help giving the impression of pseudo-science to the more scientifically astute readers.

I cringed every time I saw the word "Quantum Change".

It's really hard to write a summary for this book since the author doesn't really stay on topic and jumps around to general self-help concepts. He could've written a more focused single blog post instead.

This book promises too much, delivers too little and is a huge disappointment.