This book came to me as an audiobook through my local library and I completed listening to it in three sittings. A quick review.
The things I liked were: it is inspirational, it does give some very real techniques to improve the 'unfocused mind', techniques I've used in the past, and the overall framework for productivity is pretty decent. I don't know if this book is the final word on the 'unfocused mind', but it's a pretty good high-level summary of how one can shape one's less-productive and creative tendencies towards tendencies that encourage creativity more.
The things I didn't like: on several occasions Dr. Pillay brings straight-out pseudoscience, lies, and woo-woo into the book and treats them as real concepts and theories. It's hard to understand who they're targeted at, coming from a respected renowned practitioner, but those decrease the reliability of the books somewhat. Because I'm a student of cog sci and pop psych, I can distinguish between what's likely real and what's likely bs, but it'd be unfair for those people with no such background, to throw a barrage of true facts and a bunch of lies at, at the same go. I can ignore, they won't be able to.
Would I read this book again? Most definitely yes, many times over, I'm even considering buying a hard-cover version for myself. Is it a great book: not with that sketchy stuff still around.
7 out of ten, deducting 2 points because of obvious reasons.
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