OK, I'm weird. This is an anthology of short (condensed, excerpted) essays on...self-help, basically - being the best you you can be. The language strikes me as rather antique (1946) - not just the assumption that the person reading is male, but the word choices and sentence structures are more formal than you'd find nowadays (especially in the self-help genre). And yet. One of the early essays talks about building habits and how to start and to keep them going - the subject of a good many essays, complete books, and apps that I've read and used. And that essay actually made the ideas make sense to me; now I understand _why_ you want to keep the streak going, beyond the challenge of doing so (the metaphor of dropping a ball of string you're winding up really works for me). Some of the essays annoyed me in their presumptions, but most of them were at least interesting and some I want to use (including the habits one) as patterns for what I want to achieve. Another probably useful one is a set of exercises aimed at "abs and diaphragm" - nowadays we'd say "core", but under any name it's something I want to target. The exercises are simple (aside from the one that I can't quite figure out how you're supposed to move), quick to do, and interesting. I've tried one, and will expand to others. I expected to read and dispose of the book, but it'll be around for a while yet... ( )