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1.0 out of 5 starsDont waste your money and time on this book, will add no value whatsoever!
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014
Well, normally I don't write reviews. But this book is so idiotic, theoretical and hypothetical that I have to stop the potential readers from wasting their valuable time. At the end of this review, I have provided 3 self help books which are MUST to have.
Alright....So, I have read too many 'self help' books so to speak while most of them were very hypothetical and unrealistic, only a few were well written with practical advice and packed with some real good examples.
'No Excuses' by Brian Tracy is really hopeless. It is crazily hypothetical and it doesn't speak of anything which you might not probably be aware of. Like say Write the Goals, Read them everyday, Do this...Do that....etc. Alright, alright, we all know that goal writing is important but how the goals should be articulated is left open to public and most of which will do it wrong and eventually frustration kicks in. The missing point is what only a few books address (Well, I'm not saying that books which teach you how to set goals is better, my point is broader: A good book is the one which has some good nuggets that we can inculcate and become a better person). And this book is definitely not the one!
Let me give you an example: Our great Brian Tracy says that if you improve some 0.0001% every week then by 1 year you will be 1000 or so % better than what you are today....What non sense!!!! Don't we have smartphone to compound all this for ourselves?
As I said, this is one of the hypothetical stuff that he has mentioned.
Whenever we buy any self help book, it is basically to 1. enable us live a better life and 2. provide some concrete easy to follow guidance on being a better person on all fronts.
Agreed that all self help books eventually would speak something which we are typically aware of but still the quality of a book can be judged only by the real life examples provided in the book related to the exact advise being shared.
Take my words - The best self help books that I have come across till date (By the way, I have tons of books on my Kindle!) is:
1. Mastery - Robert Greene (Bit long but very practical and great examples to which he related all his advise)
2. The Practicing Mind - Lovely book - Excellent - This doesn't talk about "Set goals", "Write Goals","Read Goals" but it insists the reader to focus on the process rather than the product in an excellent way. You would love this book for sure!
3. The Compound Effect - Still reading this....
Once you have these three books then you need not look any further.
