Chris D.

Generic common stories disconnected

Revisado: 01-31-25

I wrote a longer review but in hindsight I felt the wording verged on too harsh due to my level of disappointment in this book. The title is a very appealing message. I appreciate the author has had a very successful business career. I found the contents did not live up to the promise of either in terms of either an original perspective, stories or information I hadn't already heard elsewhere, and to my surprise even many quotes misattributed just copied off internet sites that don't verify things. Even by the standard of business books, which I read a lot of and appreciate the function they serve, I would recommend giving a different book a chance with your time. I regret this purchase and only listened to the remainder to be able to leave a review reflective of what I found to be true throughout the book, and that it did not get better in later parts.

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Good performance, has some good info, but...

Revisado: 09-14-24

...may not be for you unless you are willing to wade through hearing constantly, again and again for a very long time, about every single award or honor the author has been recognized for since high school.

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Several upsell promotions per chapter

Revisado: 06-13-24

There's some good content in here, don't get me wrong, but for the amount of nonstop advertising to join the newsletter, sign up at the website, attend his live group events etc it winds up feeling like I paid for this material twice.

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Mix of good thoughts and parts to wade through

Revisado: 08-07-23

There is, definitely, some genuinely helpful thoughts in here, well presented. I say that first because I don't want to give the wrong idea with what I'm about to say next. There are also a few sections where it's misusing physics ideas in ways that if you know about actual physics will make you want to give up immediately and listening before you get to the rest. This happens in multiple places, spread out. That stuff is common in some business community talks, so apparently it helps some people visualize or remember something, but typically it's kept in its own separate places or material away from the more grounded audience. Anyway, I encourage toughing through or skipping those bits to get back to the rest of it, because there's more after it which is better again.

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Great book and solid narration

Revisado: 06-19-23

I appreciate the writing style isn't everyone's thing but I found it very fitting for what this book is about. It explores the central idea well and leaves plenty as an exercise for the reader to keep thinking about. The reading is never a distraction from the material, so if you're interested in the book I have no trouble suggesting this audiobook version as a fine way to enjoy it.

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Airbnb landlord teaching Airbnb landlords

Revisado: 10-31-22

There's some decent generic advice repeated in here you'll hear lots of other places, but the central story is buying up properties to Airbnb and then making a living charging others to learn how to do that, making the world worse through the work done. Before that he was a normal landlord having renters paying his own overhead for the same building he lived in. If you're familiar with Russell Brunson he points out that his book and events around clickfunnels were big parts of his own path turning from unsuccessful to successful, so consider going straight to the source, though keep in mind that clickfunnels actually makes its money by locking in operators to significant indefinite annual costs to continue giving access to buyers who got "lifetime access" or else turns your site into a funnel entry point to their own offerings. Then the rest is trying to convince you to pay thousands of dollars for courses because that's what this author wrote this book to sell. Comically he suggests at one point that if you're paying attention you'll notice you're even being sold to here in the book - and yeah, we notice that, thanks. *Update: listened to the rest to not be a partial reviewer, and becomes more patronizing by don't be a housekeeper run the housekeepers, don't be a renter be an owner (gee why doesn't everyone do that), and being baffled his Uber driver ignored his gold advice to instead make a million dollars doing what took this guy 10+ years before he had any traction or his first dollar. P.S. The Socrates story is not something there's any record of Socrates ever did and is deeply inconsistent with the philosopher, which does not bode well for author and editor's standard for bothering to check before repeating incorrect junk passed around online.

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Excellent and helpful

Revisado: 08-11-22

I've written three books/audiobooks, two of the transformational nonfiction type this focuses on, and it'd have helped in various ways to have read this first. I found AJ through Mike M (I've read all the books they've co-authored) via a video the two did together. I'll be recommending this to others. Thanks A. J. for writing this!

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Great book. Strong intro narrator. Rest isn't him

Revisado: 02-19-22

Great book, no question there, this is about the deception related to narration. The sample is from the introduction, which has a high energy, entertaining narrator that seems this audiobook apart from the many other versions available. Then the introduction ends, and the rest is read by a much more normal, lower energy narrator, which is fine, but not what the sample sells you on, and in so doing, misrepresents what you're getting so many hours of.

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Good balance of philosophy basis and accessibility

Revisado: 02-11-22

For 20 years I've been one of those annoying people like Chidi who actively go out of my way to live, work, and volunteer based on ideas directly drawn from philosophy. Because of that, I'm familiar with both the source material referenced and the extreme difficulty of getting most people to accept the time and discomfort to get through more than a few pages of it before giving up and going back to navigating life based on whatever we saw parents or friends do. The author is upfront that to present these ideas in a widely accessible way will inevitably bother both some professors (true) and people who dislike philosophy and really just want a fun work of pure comedy (also true). Overall this book walks the practical balance about as well as could realistically be done. It achieves this better than any other attempts I've found. Adding to the comedy here is a meta layer you can find and enjoy in the negative reviews from people telling on themselves who, upon being confronted by the book's correctly explained basis for why their behavior is selfish and makes the world a worse place, insists it must be the author being political, because clearly it's out of the question that they might actually be selfish people living in a way that does make the world a worse place. That disagreement is not an argument against the book or author, it's an argument against being awful from solely living by what some person asserts confidently enough on a podcast, entertaining tv program, or viral facebook posts. The footnotes and jokes work fine, it's not pure stand up comedy it's still fundamentally a philosophy book, and the people harping about that mostly seem annoyed because part of the book prompted them to reflect and they did not appreciate what they saw. 10/10 would recommend to anyone. If they hate it then the world can only improve by them being given recommendations they disagree with.

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Useful. I also disagree with his politics but--

Revisado: 11-18-21

What you're reading in other reviews about his love of a past president I personally strongly disagree with is true, *however* I think people are overlooking that if you can't sit through hearing bizarrely, uncomfortably worshipful opinions of That Guy, then you're maybe gonna have a tough time trying to attract or retain affluent clients. The very unfortunate and complex reality is that with precious few exceptions many of the people who have a lot of money want what they see as best for their family or company, and that means lower taxes and fewer regulations to them at whatever external cost or harm to anybody else. He makes an excellent point that to reach any customer you have to speak to them as they see themselves - not lucky or privileged or won the inheritance/networking lottery, but instead as hard working people who earned it and took tough risks. If you can't listen to his occasionally objectionable narrow worldview about things you're going to encounter the same issue trying to message or reach customers who, to the central purpose of the book, think and talk similarly to how he does. I see those segments with practicing my patience, and factor it into my thought process about my comfort level really reaching out to prospects who are far beyond my own economic class.

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