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literaryhypewoman's review
3.0
I'm not sure why this was such a struggle for me to get through, but here we are. Something in his tone slightly annoyed me, while his advice/tactics were all pretty generic. The skating stuff was the most interesting but there wasn't much to it.
ethanjarrell's review
3.0
I'm not usually interested in self help books, but I've always been a fan of Apolo Ohno. His perspective on life, and life changes is interesting, but also a little bit unapproachable. Hard pivoting probably looks a lot different for an antisocial computer engineer than it does for a multi-million dollar olympic athlete. I think I would have liked it more if it was more about Apolo's personal history, and what he did, and specific examples of how those specific decisions impacted his life specifically. But the book had more of the tone of, "Here's a brief synopsis of what I did, and here are all the reasons you should do this too, and here's all the ways this will make your life better." It comes of as more 'preachy' than allowing the reader to assess Apolo's choices, and extrapolate their own conclusions and applications for their individual lives.
doubletroubledogmom's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed this book, it was short with lots of good ideas and action points. Chapter 8 in my opinion was the best. Good for graduates, people trying to vigor if they're in the right career or even want ways to re-engage with a career.