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Captivating, interesting, and inspirational!

Revisado: 05-11-22

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing…

Too often when you read adventure biographies the books can either get overly dry with nauseating levels of irrelevant details; or the author inserts exaggerated bull-shit to embellish his/her accomplishments.

Thankfully the tone and approach of the author was one of humility and grace.

This is a fantastic book!

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Captivating and Excellent

Revisado: 02-08-21

Great book! I would highly recommend this book. It’s interesting and inspirational. The story of a man who truly lived life to fullest.

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Self-Promotion of website not much else

Revisado: 05-12-20

I regret buying and listening to the book.

The following is the only value that you will learn from this book: effective lobbyists need a Message (objective & well analyzed); need a Mass (of aligned constituents); need to show
Money (either through indirect or direct contribution).

I was sorely disappointed with this author and this book. This book it was clearly written with the sole purpose of helping the author promote his website/business. The name of his website/business seems to have been un-naturally inserted dozens of times.

If only, the author could have been a bit more objective and approached the book as a stand-alone educational tool the content and depth of the book could have been much better.

There are large sections of the book where the author goes off onto tangential non-relevant, narcissistic auto-biographical incidents.

Finally the author’s website/ business also is not worth the time or money... it’s good for a copy and past of the layout and general approach and framework to lobbying but nothing more.

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fascinating, captivating, and enthralling

Revisado: 04-10-18

If you could sum up Educated in three words, what would they be?

fascinating, captivating, and enthralling

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The book is fascinating, captivating, and enthralling. At times you will have a hard time stopping, while other times you will want to stop to ponder, process, and contemplate the complexity of the story.

I genuinely worry about the impact this deeply personal and revelatory book will have on the family…the litany of disclosers practically begs DOL, IRS, EPA, ATF, OSHA, HHS, DCFS investigations. It is almost as if the hidden purpose of the book was to fulfill the prophecies of the author’s father.

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Relevant, Fascinating, and Captivating

Revisado: 03-22-18

Previous to reading this book my wife had introduced me to the British television series entitled "Downton Abbey" which triggered a deep interest into the topic of families with inherited wealth, or families with mulit-generation sources of income.

I went on to read several books about the habits, values, and traditions of these families. Trying to decipher what allowed these families to perpetuate their wealth, from one generation to the next...

I found this book to be very insightful into how the so-called values and traditions of the "old guard" are slowly becoming less and less relevant...and how the social norms and boundaries between classes continues to shift.

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a huge compilation of success principles

Revisado: 07-14-17

This is an excellent book and shpuld be required reading. The only issues I had with this book was some of the stories were out of date, and a couple of the principles were a little long winded...The narrator could not correctly pronounce "Pinterest". He kept adding a syllable.

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Great capture of history of early California

Revisado: 03-01-17

This is a unique history of early California before the Gold Rush and the pervasive migration of people. Although, the technical terminology is a bit confusing even for a modern day sailor...I found the story captivating and inspirational.

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Great Insider's Guide to navigating Silicon Valley

Revisado: 02-07-17

Helped me to learn more about the subcultures of Silicon Valley; the people, places, habits, and mindset of the most influential people in Silicon Valley.

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Fascinating insights of middle America

Revisado: 01-24-17

This book helps the reader to understand what motivates middle America to align with the values and mores of conservative Republicans.

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