Richard David Carson

Your "gremlin" represents your inner critic, self-doubt, bad habits, or ego.

Personally, I didn't care for the format.

The author suggests that as you're reading, your "gremlin" will try to convince you that the book doesn't make sense or isn't achievable. He advises you to open your mind and then provides prompts and exercises to work through it.
I understand his point, but it didn't resonate with me at all. Additionally, envisioning this "gremlin" as a tangible being felt odd and off-putting. I just couldn't connect.

So yeah, it was an interesting short read but not my cup of tea.… (meer)

Your Gremlin is your unique inner critique that belittles you, fills you with fear and prevents you from being your best. It fills your head with self limiting generalizations about what life holds for you, wastes time by reliving the past and fearing the future and tricks you into believing it is there to protect you. Its sole purpose is to make you miserable.

The author provides a number of examples of how our gremlins manifest themselves and also gives some pointers on how to identify your own. He provides three steps for ignoring your gremlin:
Simply noticing
Choosing and playing with options
Being in process

Fighting your gremlin gives it more attention than it deserves and only gets you stuck in its muck. Instead of battling it, simply notice it and recognize it for what it is.

Choose not to listen to your critic. "To be at choice from situation to situation and from moment to moment is vitally important in taming your gremlin." The author provides detailed descriptions of the options for banishing your gremlin which include:
Breathe and experience
Change for a change
Accenting the obvious
Imagine
Revisit and re-decide

You never get rid of your inner critic so watching for its attempts to undermine your growth is a lifelong process. It will morph over time as it tries to reclaim what it once had control over; you.… (meer)

This little book is packing with perpetual learning. That is, taming your gremlin will be a life-long task but not necessarily an unpleasant one.

Here's what I think: If you read this thin book quickly without absorbing it fully, you may not get much out of it, or you'll forget what you learned. I read it slowly because I grasped from the outset that I'd miss something if I didn't. I soaked up the theories and ideas, suggestions and information and pondered it. More than that, I will read it again and again, slowly, with more understanding and insights than the first time. It takes a little practice to "just notice". I find it calming and interesting.

This book could change your life for the better. It could if you allow it, understand it, and practice the concepts. Those concepts don't primarily involve other people, although your interactions with others may change due to your own small changes and your happier self. This book is for the essential you. It's a nebulous and fluid blueprint for making choices and living.

I suggest if you acquire this book you keep it and read bits of it often.… (meer)