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As someone who has spent most of her life living a sheltered life in a rural community, it was enlightening to read about the life of an inner-city police officer, and about the lives of the people she encountered in that environment, without the filter of fictional prose to soften the edges.

TL;DR: Get out of your own way.
That said, unlike many other people who say the above phrase until they're blue in the face while the rest of us throw up our own hands or smack them in their smug faces with a heavy frying pan, Pressfield does a good job of pointing out ways you might succeed in actually following through on this age-old annoying piece of crinkly advice.

Stories are everywhere. If you work in any industry where you need to persuade others, or at least make even the most stubborn of minds see things from another point of view, then this book is the jackpot.

The prose was dry and devoid of any insight into the character's emotions other than when they spoke about them out loud. I suspect that was a choice, reflecting the dry writing of the source material. Don't come at me - I'm a bible fan (secular). That said, if I hadn't been listening to it while playing cities skylines, my ADHD ass would have given up on it midway - though that is true of many books. Overall, I am a fan of biblical retellings, and this is pretty good. I've read worse fanfiction.

A charming police procedural set in the Welsh countryside in which we get to hate the rich English holiday homeowners. As a Scot, I relate.

Remember that when you build your PKM/second brain, no one method is necessarily going to work for you. There are some good tips here, but take only what works for you and leave the rest.