Somehow manages to be both overly expansive in scientific citations and thoroughly unconvincing. Maybe it's because the book is a rotting word-salad easily summarized by "look at how great of a person I am, here are a few basically disconnected things I happen to do, be like me. Here are unrelated research efforts explained in tedious detail."

The only other thing of note are the nauseating platitudes. At one point he actually spells out meaning of the "glass half-full" proverb. It's like a ninth-grader trying to reach a two-page word count in his remedial English class.

I've come away from this book less likely to be compassionate than I was going in.