Don’t Believe Everything You Think
A review of

Don’t Believe Everything You Think

Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering

Joseph Nguyen • Joseph Nguyen • 2024

Don’t take your thoughts too seriously. 

by Patricia Sanders

Author Joseph Nguyen, with no formal training in psychology or philosophy, introduces the core ideas of Zen Buddhism, mindfulness, and New Age spirituality to the TikTok generation. If you’ve wished for a quieter mind, yearned for a way out of suffering, or wondered about the possibility of connecting with the universal, Nguyen’s brief, simply stated book offers timeless answers.

In 2022, videos of author Joseph Nguyen reading passages from his short, self-published book went viral on TikTok. He never expected that his self-help guide would become a global bestseller. The book has now been translated into more than 40 languages.

Nguyen’s message can be reduced to one sentence: Taking your thoughts too seriously leads to suffering. In 17 brief chapters, he expands on this idea, explaining how to change your relationship with your own thinking mind, become more present, connect to a state of flow, trust your intuition, and move beyond the fear of relying on non-thinking.

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