My sister rarely interested in any book. When we were a child, I am the only one who obsessed with Harry Potter, also the only one who excited when Eragon series come out.
Few weeks ago, she recommend this book. Excitedly, even she bought it herself from online because she could not find it anywhere in book stores. The title is Lagom: Not too little, not too much. Its a typical motivational translation book with some theory and stories. A guide to living peacefully from the Swedish culture.
I've read several motivational books, most of it about scholarship, career, and start up. Honestly I never finish them all because the content sometimes too predictable. All of the good words to motivate, but my rebel self cannot gulp all of them once. I prefer to dive into the short novels with some fantasy and tragedy.
From the book itself, I see that it will never become my life guidance but I still give it a try. Interesting but I have a hard time understand the words because it translated from english to bahasa Indonesia. Some awkward words displayed there. Maybe I should read the english version another time
The book taught us to keep everything simple, another way to feel enough. Maybe the term itself close to 'Zen' in Japan where people keep the simplicity in every aspect of their life.
Lagom describe why IKEA famous worldwide and why H&M always created basic simple shirt but become large in a market.
The idea is to keep everything effective, efficient yet functional and visually pleasing.
The definition of lagom itself complicated and flexible enough to describe every situation. From choosing your furniture and clothes, choose your way of work.
What I like about this book is to distance ourselves from every thing we do not need. To keep our house small, to refrain from buying thing every week. Less things we buy, less responsibility, and less problem. Owning a lot of things makes us miserable. We get the stress from keeping our things.
I agree with several things written in that book. Especially when the book said about knowing our capacity and not to burden ourself with things we do not need. Bravely saying no but striving to work hard on our passion.
However, what I feels lacking is about interpersonal communication. I am still wondering if swedish people cold to stranger or never had any trash talk because they like it straight and direct. I cannot judge either since I do not know any further about their culture.
Afterall, this book is interesting to read but I need to find english version to fully understand the content.
NB : I push myself to read book everyday. You can suggest me any book to review.
In my studio where I work, we open new segmen: BukaBuku, means OpenBook. We will review one or more book and invite people to discuss about an interesting book
