Welcome back to my silly little YouTube channel

with another silly little video.

Today, we have another installment of my celebrity book club

because, apparently, celebrities are no longer allowed

to enjoy books without me psychoanalyzing them.

And the thing is,

in the words of Bruno Mars and Travie McCoy,

I want to be a billionaire so (beep) bad.

And when I think billionaire, who springs to mind?

Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Kylie fricking Jenner.

Kylie is a very impressive person.

Not only did she become the youngest self-made billionaire,

she also redefined the term self-made

so it now includes generational wealth and fame.

That was mean, sorry.

But since I can't have Kylie Jenner's bank balance,

I thought I would have her bookshelf instead.

And so this week I'm going to be reading every book

that Kylie Jenner has recommended.

And hopefully it gives me that billionaire state of mind,

you know, that would all be quite lovely.

Kylie, you can keep the kids.

Write me out of that narrative, thank you.

But these are the books that Katie Jenner has recommended.

Two of them are actually by the same author,

which is interesting,

unless I hate the first one,

and they are all kind of self-help vibes.

Which as you know,

is not the worst thing in the world for me

because myself needs some help.

Maybe Kylie Jenner is coming to my rescue

and let's go and read them.

Okay, so the first book that I read

on Kylie Jenner's recommendation is The Four Agreements.

And I rated this a solid two stars.

So, just like Kylie's first born,

we're off to a stormy start.

This was just dumb.

Firstly, because of the four rules are explained

on the inside cover.

Talk about a spoiler alert, gees.

And then the rest of the book just over explains them

with really flimsy evidence.

And if you are going to read this,

make sure you've got some syrup

because this is mostly just waffle.

Because anyone with a shred,

a shred of critical thinking skills

could see through this like a glass screen.

I'm gonna need you guys to make one agreement with me.

Not four, just one.

Don't waste your hard earned cash on this book, please.

And I'll tell you why.

So basically this has been to be a roadmap

to enlightenment and freedom

but it's really just a car crash.

And the four rules are basically

be impeccable with your words.

So basically everything you say

should be said with integrity.

You shouldn't put other people down or even yourself down.

My self-deprecating humor could never.

And then the next rule is don't take anything personally.

So you should be immune to what other people think of you.

Probably quite a useful tip

if you're a Kardashian Jenner.

Don't make assumptions, wow,

YouTube assumptions videos are canceled.

And the final rule is always do your best,

whatever circumstance you're in.

You should always just do your best and that's enough.

Right, so those things, those four things, make sense.

But then the author, Don Miguel Ruiz, just fumbles the bag

because he explains them so badly.

His explanation for bad things happening life

is mostly down to, like, black magic

and evil spells that people cast on you.

And so, for example, if someone tells you that you're ugly,

then you might start to believe it in your own head.

But then,

but then he suggests that if someone tells you

that your skin that looks cancerous,

you'll start to believe your skin is cancerous

to the extent that you will develop cancer.

Huh?

Let's just cha cha slide and take it back now, y'all.

Because what are you talking about?

What are you saying?

Do you genuinely believe the (beep)

that is coming out of your mouth right now?

Surely not.

I am baffled and I can't believe this is real.

He basically says take the example of Hitler.

He sat out all those seeds of fear and they grew very strong

and beautifully achieved massive destruction.

Firstly, beautifully?

Beautifully?

Is that a word we would use to describe the Holocaust?

Get yourself a thesaurus,

get yourself on Google and find a synonym.

Find a different word.

Why would you use beautifully?

Anyway, that's not even the main point here.

Hitler didn't just send out seeds of fear,

like some evil Alan Titchmarsh.

You cannot just oversimplify mass genocide

to suit your argument.

And it's kind of ironic that it tells you

to be impeccable with your words

when the author is so terrible with his.

He also argues that the perfect human is a toddler

because they haven't, basically,

been corrupted by the world yet.

But toddlers (beep) themselves constantly.

That's not a perfect person.

When toddlers can cook their own dinner, then we'll talk.

Then we'll chat.

Most of this book is mostly just depressing

because he says that Hell is all around us.

Bad news, we're already in Hell

and sort of argues

that you should just do whatever you want to do

because this has already Hell.

The world is already Hell.

But, like, actions do have consequences.

I don't think we should be saying to people,

just do whatever.

As if no one but yourself actually matters because they do.

And so, my conclusion here is

that if you follow everything this book tells you to do,

you will be insufferable.

You will be a dickhead.

And I don't want that for you.

So I would not recommend this book.

And I can't believe the Kylie Jenner did.

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Okay, this is Many Lives, Many Masters,

the first of two books by Dr. Brian Weiss?

Vise?

I tell you what, his surname is Weiss?

It's ironic 'cause there's no wisdom in this damn book.

I think I lost brain cells reading this

because it's just ridiculous.

It was all a lie.

Guys, it was all alive because Dr. Brian

is a psychiatrist who claims

that he can put his clients it's way hypnotic state

that makes them be able to travel back to that past lives.

And he basically has this one client called Catherine who,

under his supervision,

goes back to her many lives and many masters,

but she's very lucid and she tells him what she's seeing

and experiencing in those many different lives.

And this ultimately unlocks truth about her life and listen,

this would have been great as a fictional book,

which is what it is.

But instead, this is branded as nonfiction,

as absolute fact with no evidence to back it up.

Dr. Brian genuinely thinks you're a freaking idiot

and you will believe anything he says

because he has doctor in front of his name.

Firstly, when his client goes back to her previous lives,

she more often than not, knows her exact location,

her name and her family members.

So if this was true,

there would literally be historical records

of these people actually existing.

And some of these lives are recent enough to be on record,

like in the 18th century.

We could fact check that.

You could easily include scientific, empirical evidence

to back up these claims, but he doesn't.

And you know why?

'Cause it's all a lie.

Do you see what he did there?

It's a scam.

If proving that these people really existed

is relatively easy to do, why would you not do it?

That's suspicious.

That's weird.

Secondly, sometimes his client goes back to previous lives

and knows the exact year that she is in.

He says to her, what year is it?

And she's like, hmm, 746 BC.

How would you know?

How would you know?

They weren't measuring dates in BC back then.

BC, before Christ.

Christ hadn't happened yet.

Thirdly, no, I'm not done.

It just becomes a farce at this point

because Catherine then gains psychic powers.

Her dad is a bit of a non-believer

'cause he's the only sane person in this whole book.

And he's like, okay, Catherine,

if you can predict the future,

let's go to a race

and you should predict who's going to win.

And she does.

And again, I'd like to bring to your attention

how easy that would be to prove.

Get it on camera.

Get it on video.

Why not predict the lottery numbers

or tell us when David Attenborough's gonna die

so we can all stop worrying

and use your skills for good use.

I wouldn't be as annoyed as I am

if this hadn't sold 1.5 million copies

because the audacity to charge money for this

as nonfiction upsets me so much.

And Dr. Brian claims he didn't need physical evidence

because he could feel it in his bones

that she was telling the truth.

Imagine, imagine going for a checkup at the doctors

and they say, we're not gonna use the stethoscope this time

because I can feel it in my bones that you're fine.

And it's also annoying because he just suggests