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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Wrapped up my first listen. Now to go back and complete the exercises at each chapter. Definitely has some useful points.
Some good nuggets. Many old rules about health and work that perpetuate toxic standards.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book is not without flaws. But its strengths outweigh its flaws by so much that I have to give it 5 stars. It's basic format is to state a problem that many people have in business, sales, discipline, motivation, etc. Then it will give you a very simple, common sense action plan for how to attack this problem. Each of the attack plans is concise and motivating. The fact that they seem like pure common sense on the surface doesn't detract from the fact that very few people I know actually do these things on a daily basis.
My problem with the book comes from the authors tendency to state opinions as though they are facts. He very often refers to studies done by this organization or that organization that shows x% of manager said this about what they are looking for in an employee or some other such statistic. But I didn't find a single actual citation for any of these studies. For all I know they are completely made up for the purpose of illustrating the author's point.
As a skeptic by nature, you would think that this massive oversight would ruin the book for me. And somehow it didn't. This is still by far the most effective book I've read on self motivation and self discipline.
My problem with the book comes from the authors tendency to state opinions as though they are facts. He very often refers to studies done by this organization or that organization that shows x% of manager said this about what they are looking for in an employee or some other such statistic. But I didn't find a single actual citation for any of these studies. For all I know they are completely made up for the purpose of illustrating the author's point.
As a skeptic by nature, you would think that this massive oversight would ruin the book for me. And somehow it didn't. This is still by far the most effective book I've read on self motivation and self discipline.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Good content to a degree, I think there was less focus on balance in life, but overall good content
While a good chunk of this book is geared toward the sales profession, there are many concepts and techniques that can be applied to other areas of life. I could see this being a good bathroom book for motivation as Tracy has broken these concepts down into easy to read chunks and the action items at the end of each chapter help summarize the main points.
There's probably not much here that you wouldn't find in other similar motivational books, and a lot of the stuff seems to be common sense, but it's a good refresher. It's also a good book to hand to an 18 year old and tell them, "Make sure you know all of this."
There's probably not much here that you wouldn't find in other similar motivational books, and a lot of the stuff seems to be common sense, but it's a good refresher. It's also a good book to hand to an 18 year old and tell them, "Make sure you know all of this."
This book had a couple of nuggets of good advice under piles of shallow, over-generalizations. And some of the advice, especially for working, is just downright impractical (like cultivating good relationships with coworkers while not talking to them during “work hours” and working through lunch + an extra hour before and after, heck try having good relationships with anyone that way). I wouldn’t really recommend the whole book, maybe just skip to the end of the chapters and read over the “Action items” and pull stuff from there (but warning, those aren’t all winners either, just less reading)