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Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit Audiobook, by Julio Vincent Gambuto Play Audiobook Sample

Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit Audiobook

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Read By: Julio Vincent Gambuto Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781797163536

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

25

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50:09 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

09 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

24:36 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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Publisher Description

Atomic Habits meets The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k in this life-changing guide to freeing yourself from the automated behaviors, values, and relationships that keep you from being happy.

When the pandemic essentially brought the world to a standstill, author Julio Gambuto came to understand a powerful truth: in the pre-pandemic world, Americans were exhausted, lonely, unhappy, wildly overworked and overbooked, drowning in sea of constantly being on the go and needing to buy more, more, more. But when that pressure disappeared, people rediscovered what was important to them. They quit jobs that made them unhappy and moved their families to suburbs. Simple things like outdoor walks replaced gym memberships; home cooking and backyard gardens replaced takeout; less commuting meant more time for family and creative projects; and for perhaps the first time in a long time, people were being honest. Honest about what they wanted, what they believed in. Honest about the problems they were facing within their families, friend groups, workplaces, towns, and society overall.

That honesty, he noticed, had the potential to make the ground shift. It created a capacity for change. But he also knew that it likely wouldn’t last, because the most powerful forces running our world would not allow it to. They wanted control over our clicks, our conversations, our dollars, our work, our votes—our lives. The only way that we could beat those systems, would be to resist the calls to keep moving, and to “go back to normal.” In order to change, we had to unsubscribe.

Now, in Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!, Gambuto gives us a radical blueprint for the ways we can take a deep breath, renew and commit to a life that we really want, individually and collectively, from unsubscribing to emails and automated subscriptions to reevaluating the presence of people and ideas and habits that no longer serve us or make us happy. Infused with the practical advice in James Clear’s Atomic Habits and the humor of Sarah Knight’s The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! helps us focus on where we find joy in our lives and encourages us to toss out what doesn’t bring us joy in this modern world.

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“Vince Gambuto’s storytelling and branding skills are part of what makes this audio so much fun to hear…He’s also a good narrator, clear and consistent from start to finish…His vocal palette is colorful, engaging, and likable—a good vehicle for his stories about life in New York City and his hipster leanings.”

— AudioFile

Quotes

  • “Gambuto’s enthusiastic delivery and practical self-help tactics will remind readers that significant internal work is necessary to clear out the clutter, making room for beneficial relationships in real life and online. ”

    — Kirkus Reviews
  • “I need this book in my life and so do you.”

    — Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Simultaneously hilarious and deadly serious…Offers brilliant practical advice for seizing this unusual moment in history to build the saner, more joyful and meaningful lives that too often feel just out of reach.”

    — Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

Awards

  • Finalist for the Audie Award for Best Business/Personal Development Narration

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    " In response to the book's title; "How to take back our time, attention, and purpose in a world designed to bury us in bullshit," I would like to question the purpose of this book, take back my money spent, and the attention I gave it and loudly call BULLSHIT! on most of what was offered up by the writer. The entire book was filled with "let me tell you about me" anecdotes that seem like the writer was laying on one of his many therapist's couches. By his own admission in the last chapter, he states that he had fun using his own anger in writing the book – it showed. If you're not a Democratic Socialist or Cultural Marxist, you may be put off by the author's not-so-subtle weaving of his America-is-bad political perspectives throughout the book. He talks about the things that America needs but cannot define them. Exactly what IS positive change? What is the proof that Keynesian economics delivers better results than a more free-market approach? Define LOVE. By chapter four, I was listening at 1.5 or double speed to give my "money's worth" by finishing the book. Ultimately, I unsubscribed from all the fluff that filled the pages of this book. The book's title promises a guide on reclaiming time, attention, and purpose in a world filled with distractions, but instead, it delivers a self-indulgent monologue that borders on therapeutic self-exploration. The excessive use of personal anecdotes turns what could have been a helpful guide into a narcissistic journey through the author's psyche. Readers seeking practical advice are left wading through a sea of irrelevant personal stories that offer little value. The author's admission of deriving pleasure from his own anger in writing the book raises concerns about the book's credibility. It becomes evident that the author's emotional catharsis takes precedence over providing readers with meaningful insights and strategies for reclaiming their time and purpose. The overt injection of the author's political views is jarring and alienates readers who do not align with the specific ideological lens presented. The book claims to address universal challenges but consistently veers into a narrow political discourse, leaving readers to question the relevance of these perspectives to the broader theme. The author's attempt to discuss the needs of America and propose solutions is vague and lacking in substance. The failure to define crucial concepts like "positive change" or provide evidence supporting the superiority of Keynesian economics over other economic approaches undermines the book's credibility. It leaves readers grappling with unfulfilled promises and seeking substance in a sea of empty rhetoric. By chapter four, the reader is compelled to increase the playback speed, not out of eagerness to absorb the material more quickly, but as a desperate attempt to salvage some semblance of value from a book that fails to engage and falls short of delivering on its promises. Ultimately, the decision to unsubscribe reflects a dissatisfaction with the abundance of fluff that permeates the book. What begins as a promising exploration of reclaiming time and purpose devolves into a self-serving narrative filled with political bias, undefined concepts, and a lack of practical guidance. The reader is left questioning the author's motives and regretting the investment of time and money in a work that fails to deliver on its titular commitment. "

    — Peppone, 11/27/2023

About Julio Vincent Gambuto

Julio Vincent Gambuto grew up in a large Italian family on New York’s Staten Island, where aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered often around mom’s seafoam-green formica kitchen table for Entenmann’s crumb cake to tell stories, argue about the Mets, and play cards with the neighbors. After seven years on merit scholarship at Staten Island Academy, he left for Harvard, where he graduated with honors earing a BA degree in English and American literature and language. He completed his training as a film director at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was honored as an Annenberg Fellow. He is the author of “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting”—a super-viral essay series on Medium, where he is a weekly contributor. He is also a filmmaker and has written and produced film and television content for Nickelodeon, PBS, E! Entertainment, Stone & Company Entertainment, Kerner Entertainment, and James Franco’s Rabbit Bandini. He lives in New York City and is the author of Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!.