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    Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
    Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
    Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
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    Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World

    Written by Lisa Bloom

    Narrated by Lisa Bloom

    3.5/5

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    According to Lisa Bloom, the women and girls of today represent a stark paradox. While American women excel in education at every level, they likewise obsessively focus on celebrity media. While women outperform their male counterparts in employment in urban areas for the first time in history, they simultaneously spend countless hours staring in the mirror contemplating plastic surgery. Lisa Bloom fears that women are in danger of spiraling into a nation of dumbed-down, tabloid-media-obsessed, reality TV addicts. Too often, they outsource matters to "experts" and in doing so neglect to truly think for themselves.

    Lisa Bloom has the solution and it involves one simple word: Think. In this provocative, entertaining, educational, and thoroughly researched book, Lisa outlines the ways that we as a society, and particularly women, have fallen off the intellectual path, and, very specifically, points to how damaging this has been to us on many levels. Lisa shows us the fallout-but she also provides the solutions for "Reclaiming the Brain God Gave You" and seizing back control of your mind and your life. Think is delivered in a no-nonsense manner that will make you laugh, make you question yourself, make you squirm, but, most important, make you start thinking again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781452673875
    Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
    Author

    Lisa Bloom

    Lisa Bloom is the legal analyst for The Today Show, NBC News, and Avvo.com. A daily fixture on American television for the last decade, Lisa regularly appears on CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Swagger and Think, and she has written numerous articles for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, The National Law Journal, CNN.com, The Daily Beast, and others. She lives in Los Angeles where she runs her law firm, The Bloom Firm.

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    • 2/5
      It can be summarized as “sit down and read”. Still recommend it.
    • 4/5
      Thought-provoking argument that women spend too much time worrying about make-up, celebrity gossip, and how we look, rather than changing the world.
    • 4/5
      I am pretty sure that I am not the intended audience for this book. I read (voraciously), I have no interest in celebrity gossip, I don't have cable, I have no desire for cosmetic surgery, and I don't spend hours applying makeup or on household chores. So I read about 75% of the book thinking, "wow, people actually LIVE like that?" I did get some good book recommendations, but that's about it.However, for women who don't read, or are focused solely on their outward appearance, or spend countless hours fixating on celebrities, this would likely be a good wake up call. There is more to life than who is sleeping with whom.I did find the author to be a little, hmm, out of touch with middle class America, though. She casually mentions spending $100 for shoes (the most I've ever spent for shoes was $45 for a pair of quality tennis shoes), or hiring someone to do your housework for you so you can spend more time reading (seriously?), or jetting off to India for a yoga retreat. She also assumes that the readers live near a big city, apparently; I would LOVE to visit an independent bookstore, but the nearest one is something like two hundred and fifty miles away. And my local library doesn't have much of a selection of anything. It's Amazon or nothing for me out here in the boonies. Still, the book gets three and a half stars from me because I do agree with quite a bit of it. It bothers me how much our American culture is obsessed with consumerism and celebrities. I may get teased a bit at work for not knowing anything about the latest "celeb scandal" (I was rather proud the other day for having no idea who the Kardashiens are or why they are famous), but don't we have better things to think about and do? And reading. Yes. So much love for anyone who promotes promiscuous reading. ;)
    • 3/5
      I really wanted to like this book. In fact, I'd say I loved the first part of the book, which details the problem, and found it very informative.The solution section, however, just got more disappointing the further I read. Depending on who you are, there are some very practical ideas in this book for carving out more free time, improving your mind, and making yourself happier and more involved in the world around you. However, the further you get from her apparent assumption that you're able-bodied, only working one job, live near a library, and have internet access in your own home, the less useful her solutions will seem.Oh, and there's a nice healthy does of fat shaming lurking in the pages too. Newsflash Ms. Bloom, while ideally everyone should eat healthy and get plenty of exercise, it doesn't actually magically cause you to lose weight, and also isn't possible for everyone for a wide variety of reasons. Nor does being "overweight" magically mean you're unhealthy. There are even fat active vegans in the world.
    • 5/5
      In Think, Lisa Bloom asserts that our society (and women in particular) has succumbed to our narcissistic, self-indulgent, consumer driven culture. Women in our culture are smart and have more options available to them than ever before--and what are most of them doing? Applying for The Bachelor, wondering what the hell is going on with Kim Kardashian's marriage or divorce or whatever it is at this point, considering a plethora of cosmetic procedures, and reading online gossip blogs (if they're reading at all). What are they not doing? Using their intellect and first world education to address serious problems, like poverty, hunger, and the repression of women in countries far less fortunate than ours. In other words, they're not thinking. Amen, amen, amen! Obviously, Lisa Bloom is preaching to the choir here and I'm probably not her target audience, but it is certainly nice to feel some affirmation for the intellectual and educational choices I make on a daily basis since they do go against the norm. For example, most women would rather lose their ability to read than their figure (oh, hell no!) or win America's Next Top Model than win the Nobel Peace Prize (my heart weeps).I'm not necessarily giving Think a 5 star based upon it's writing style (although it is accessible and often funny) and there are some points that ever-so-slightly rubbed me the wrong way. For example, Bloom asserts that cleaning is not a woman's job (no complaint from me here) and we should simply outsource it to someone else so we have time to read and think. We should also have our children pitch in and do their part. These are not concepts with which I disagree, but they are easier said than done. Many women can't afford to hire a maid (even on a bimonthly basis) and even the most cooperative of teenagers will pitch a hissy fit upon occasion when asked do their part, yet Bloom makes it sound so effortless. However, I am giving it a 5 star because anyone who advocates the need to read, that it's valuable and worthy of our time, is someone with a message that today's culture needs to hear. Don't believe me? Check out the NEA statistics from the 2007 To Read or Not to Read report (also quoted in Bloom's book):--80% of American families did not read or buy a book last year--70% of adults have not been to a bookstore in the last 5 years--1/3 of high school graduates never read another book after graduationI've read several reviews that scoff at Bloom taking the time to talk about how to make time for reading books, how to choose books, and how to savor books, as though this is "duh" information and unnecessary. Based upon these statistics, I would argue that such information is definitely needed. I teach in a high school classroom and, when my students come to me, most of them are not readers. They don't know how to make time for reading or even how to pick out a book. Reading is not valued in their households. They don't ask for books for birthdays or Christmas. Their parents don't read. There are too many electronic diversions in their lives. I'm proud to say that, by the time they leave my classroom, most of them are readers. Why? Because I've taught them the simple things: how to create and value quiet time for reading, how to choose good books, and how to reflect upon their responses to literature. That's right--I'm bragging, and I should. Because there's nothing more valuable to leading a productive, happy life than reading. And it's a skill that has to be consistently taught and modeled--and that's what Bloom is doing in those chapters. Sure, if you're reading this review, you may not need it as you've obviously bought into a love of reading if you're on a social media site dedicated to it, but I'm willing to bet you know people who probably do. And Think is for them. I, for one, plan on pushing this book like crack-cocaine to the people in my life who need it--especially teenage girls in my classroom. Whether you agree or disagree with Bloom's liberal views, just the advocacy for thinking is worthy of the time it takes to read the book.