This book has some great nuggets of wisdom for beginning meditators, padded with a significant amount of not-super-interesting memoir. As someone who meditates regularly, I read this book for the purpose of gleaning some tips I could use to coach my partner, who struggles with meditating. It served that purpose, but the content I walked away with could have easily fit into a magazine-length piece: It did not need to be a book. Still, I think I’d recommend it as a great, down-to-earth resource for people struggling with how to establish a meditation practice. It also strikes the right tone for people who may be skeptical of the benefits meditation can bring to their lives.