I was super excited about Brendon putting out a new book as I am a fan of his intelligent, practical, strategic and entertaining delivery of highly valuable information. I have read his other books and attended his seminars. So I guess I had high expectations for this book.
As an author myself in this 'self-help' arena; I think an author needs to focus on two main things. Engaging and entertaining the reader is the first part (it needs to be fun) and the second part is to impart useful and relevant information, insight, tips and tools. This way the reader is emotionally inspired plus has the tools to better their life. This is what I was hoping for with this book. But I was not really motivated by the end (more frustrated) and I found myself 'skimming' rather than reading the book to find the gems. There were definitely some great bits, but infrequently scattered throughout.
A huge portion of the book was focused on those 'idiots', 'fools', 'losers', 'naysayers', or 'bastards' that hold you back. This could have been mentioned a lot less, and the positives we needed to incorporate or focus on could have been the majority of the content. The writing also came across for me as a bit of a rant or bland (I am having some trouble clearly articulating why the delivery of the prose did not resonate with me - as I was surprised when it didn't).
This book is touted as a New York Times best seller, but I don't think it is a result of the masterful content or delivery of engaging prose or the awesome tips to crank up your motivation; but because of the expert and very strategic online marketing by Brendan and his large band of affiliates.
So my recommendation is if you have high expectations of this book you might be disappointed. If you wanted to feel motivated and inspired after this book, it might miss the mark, unless you are very new to this content. I actually feel a little bad because I recommended this book to a lot of people based on Brendan's past work, rather than reading it first. I definitely took that personal lesson away myself.
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Hay House Inc.; First Edition edition (October 28, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9781401948078
- ISBN-13: 978-1401948078
- ASIN: 1401948073
- Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 1,313 customer reviews
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #33 in Christian Self Help
- #167 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)
- #182 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
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