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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
2,7 ⭐
Interesting and functional. Nevertheless still falls into old self-help books clichés, time to time, that everyone is so tired of reading.
Interesting and functional. Nevertheless still falls into old self-help books clichés, time to time, that everyone is so tired of reading.
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Some good key principles and lessons to be taken away from the first half! Kept having to mark some of the sentences because they are so nicely formulated however second half very business focused and doesn’t teach anything new
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Very good advice, but not much of it's new. The writing feels a little old-school, full of chestnuts you've heard before like "winners never quit and quitters never win." Not so sure about that one. Plenty of bad ideas need to be dropped because the opportunity cost of staying with a bad plan is, like, your life. Anyway, there's not any objectionable content here. The chapter on how to be great at sales didn't speak to me, but the chapter on parenting really did.
No Excuses consists mainly of common-sense advice, exhortations to try harder, and a few plausible-sounding strategies that could actually be helpful. (Though the author will claim that these strategies are the only way to succeed, where success consists primarily in making a lot of money.) He backs up the advice with unrepresentative-sounding personal anecdotes, dubious factual claims, and folk psychology.
I was compelled to write this review when I read his claim that the average American's salt consumption exceeds the necessary amount by twenty pounds a year. In fact, the number is about two pounds. (The RDA is 2,300 mg of sodium per day, Americans consume 3,400 mg, and salt is about 40% sodium by weight.)
To lose weight, he recommends finding a picture of someone with your ideal image of how your body should look.
One more peeve: on the cover, "No Excuses!" is crossed out.
I was compelled to write this review when I read his claim that the average American's salt consumption exceeds the necessary amount by twenty pounds a year. In fact, the number is about two pounds. (The RDA is 2,300 mg of sodium per day, Americans consume 3,400 mg, and salt is about 40% sodium by weight.)
To lose weight, he recommends finding a picture of someone with your ideal image of how your body should look.
One more peeve: on the cover, "No Excuses!" is crossed out.
Some material feels outdated, but the chapter on marriage and children is gold!