Review: Let Them, by Mel Robbins

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I do follow Mel Robbins, have done for about a year or so. She's all over instagram with shorts, and has a podcasts and does some interesting interviews. I prefer her when she interviews, because on her own she rambles - much like this book.

I'm seeing in other reviews people saying she stole this theory or concept from a poem - a poem titled Let Them by Cassie Phillips - and hasn't had the decency to credit it, probably because she'd have to pay for it out of the amazing amount of money she has made off this book.

And this is the thing I see time and time again from those in the 'Personal Development' and 'Self Help' industry - and it is an industry, many of them saying the same thing again and again just repackaging it - when someone who already has a huge platform decides to write a book. Though this is not Mel Robbins' first book, this one has landed her in a way she wasn't before. Probably because she now has a HUGE PR team who can push this book. It's a Hay House published book too, and thus why she then gets an endorsement from Oprah, a show host who has managed to become a guru to these people, though all she ever did was interview people, people who were vulnerable and needed help.

It's a money-making scheme and a successful one, thanks to the internet and social media.

As for the book. It is a lot of ramble, and I skimmed a lot of it as it is regurgating much of what she says on her own platform and using endless examples from her life and her families lives. It goes over some interesting approaches to dealing with friendships and comparison to others, but it's a big book for such a small concept really: Let people do what they are going to do, and allow yourself to not feel you have to keep up.

I didn't hate the book, but there are others I would recommend instead of it, that are more constructive and less rambly for people who genuinely struggle.

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