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199 reviews for:
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
4.07 AVERAGE
199 reviews for:
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
4.07 AVERAGE
Nothing like a good self-improvement book! This book was short enough to read in a couple days but long enough to drive home the message that we are what we do on a day to day basis. This really does have a profound effect on your mindset if you incorporate it - each little decision becomes something that you really think about. each morning decision to meditate is a win, every time you remember to take that protein shake or do your rehab after gym classes is a win etc etc. not because of that particular time, but because of what it means when they add up and compound over years.
If you’re new to self-help books, this book might be a good beginner’s read, otherwise those well-versed in productivity would only benefit from a quick skim.
In a nutshell:
1) Have a positive philosophy in life.
2) Figure out your most productive habits according to your philosophy.
3) Don’t break the chain with those habits.
4) Your course will always be slightly off, so adjust accordingly.
In a nutshell:
1) Have a positive philosophy in life.
2) Figure out your most productive habits according to your philosophy.
3) Don’t break the chain with those habits.
4) Your course will always be slightly off, so adjust accordingly.
I enjoyed this. I read a lot of self help books and I feel this is the tool I was missing to make them work for me.
Time will tell as time will pass anyway.
Time will tell as time will pass anyway.
An amazing book and very apparent and necessary for everyone. I have met the author and his philosophies have truly changed my life. A MUST read for everyone!
This self-help/happiness/get-your-life-together-type book put into words what I had recently been thinking about: the concept of applied compound exponential growth to an effort. It expresses the concept that even those smallest steps taken to achieve greatly add up over time. As a math teacher, I likened it to the concept of compound interest. Think about the difference in a mortgage rate of 5.5% vs 6.5%. That one percent difference results in an $38,000 difference over the course of 30 years. The same result can happen with our lives. An extra 5 or 10 minutes applied towards a goal with make it arrive that much faster, or take you that much farther in life. Highly recommended.
This book was blowing my mind in the beginning and then by about 3/4 through, I felt it started to become incredibly repetitive & could barely get myself through to the end of it. There’s some great knowledge to be gathered from these pages but I’m not sure it had to be as drawn out as it was.
Easy read that tied together all of the productivity/self help books I’ve read. I wish I read this years ago, as now I know how to implement all the great ideas I’ve read in the past, little by little. Consistency is key!!
Makes so much sense. I'm a successful person. And i live by these rules
The author argues that doing small actions every day compound over time to have rewards larger than the sum of their parts. There were a lot of great moments in the book that really challenged and inspired me. The idea that what I'm currently doing really matters. That I need to have a goal and a plan. That if something is easy to do it is also easy not to do.
But holy crap was the book long for what it was saying. There was a story about how the compound effect works near the beginning of the book about how it is better to have a penny double every day for 30 days than to have a million dollars. But it went about telling that story in the longest and most convoluted way.
I just felt burnt out by the end of the book.
But holy crap was the book long for what it was saying. There was a story about how the compound effect works near the beginning of the book about how it is better to have a penny double every day for 30 days than to have a million dollars. But it went about telling that story in the longest and most convoluted way.
I just felt burnt out by the end of the book.