Book: You Don't Know What You're Missing by Kit Yates

I saw this recommended online and it immediately appealed. I expected to learn how I miss things so that I could do something about it. The blurb suggested that was a reasonable expectation. It is not quite what this book is.

A lot of plane crash talk early on made it sadder and more distressing than I anticipated. I certainly didn't expect the story of a US POW in Vietnam who, after a year of being tortured, had the opportunity to go on TV and valiantly smuggled a Morse code message home, only to languish in those same conditions for seven more years. Remarkable, but not what I came for.

Pearl Jam being described as one of the world's best-selling bands was a massive distraction. I sat and mentally listed at least twenty that are more so.

Some sections took real effort to read, which I imagine academics would have sailed through. But I had no issue finishing it.

I'm sure it did exactly what it intended to do for its core audience. And if it nudged me to question what I might be missing in my own thinking, perhaps subconsciously it did its job after all.