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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Read as part of a professional book club and absolutely loved it!!!!
These principles have been covered by many success books. Good use of story to convey what is usually a pretty dry list. Very quick read, worth the time. Take notes to look back on.
Realistically 3.5 stars. This was a nice intro to positive thinking / self-help / motivation books with a creative fiction slant. The fiction parts of the story often bothered me because they took liberties with history, but that won't bother everyone. The motivation stuff at the end of each chapter was solid, but nothing really new or life-changing. A decent read for those who want a self-help book disguised as something else.
this book gave me hella motivational quotes and for that I’m thankful. The plot was really neat in getting to meet alot of historical figures. Helps motivate you in thinking about the one and only life we get.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Amazingly compelling, captivating and inspiring!
I received this book as a gift from Robert D. Smith, who is the man the book is dedicated to as well as a very close friend of the author. I was going to skim it real quick and then give it to a friend who I knew would enjoy it more but wait, I couldn't. I was in the middle of 4 other books - I LOVE to read! _ and I had to put them down and even stop doing some of my projects to devour this book. Well-done Andy Andrews!!
The story of David is so compelling. Andrews has a pretty nice writing style too, and I love the creativity here, meeting the figures from history and learning from their wisdom, but in a way that was truly inspiring. I blog in the self-development and motivational space and I get a lot of readers that just think this "inspiration" and "positive thinking" 'stuff' is not for them.... and they are simply wrong. They CHOOSE to believe they have no power, no will, no choice, and I love the no-nonsense way that Andrews clears that up!
I took out a highlighter and marked several several passages, and my favorite was probably the episode with little Anne Frank. I know I just don't have the heart to read her diary but I so badly want to. How very touching!
I received this book as a gift from Robert D. Smith, who is the man the book is dedicated to as well as a very close friend of the author. I was going to skim it real quick and then give it to a friend who I knew would enjoy it more but wait, I couldn't. I was in the middle of 4 other books - I LOVE to read! _ and I had to put them down and even stop doing some of my projects to devour this book. Well-done Andy Andrews!!
The story of David is so compelling. Andrews has a pretty nice writing style too, and I love the creativity here, meeting the figures from history and learning from their wisdom, but in a way that was truly inspiring. I blog in the self-development and motivational space and I get a lot of readers that just think this "inspiration" and "positive thinking" 'stuff' is not for them.... and they are simply wrong. They CHOOSE to believe they have no power, no will, no choice, and I love the no-nonsense way that Andrews clears that up!
I took out a highlighter and marked several several passages, and my favorite was probably the episode with little Anne Frank. I know I just don't have the heart to read her diary but I so badly want to. How very touching!
I get that this book was meant to be one of those inspirational self-help books. And it actually did have some very valid concepts and insights for personal success. I also found some nice quotables in there that I ended up writing down for myself. But I just couldn’t get past the inauthentic narrative that was poorly constructed around these “seven decisions”. The encounters that the protagonist, David Ponder, had with these different historical icons felt shallow and highly idealistic. I think I would’ve preferred it better if David’s whole part of the book was simply left out.
This was really good. It's a very quick read and rather inspiring, but some historical inaccuracies bugged me (Columbus was from Genoa, not Portugal, though he was no doubt fluent in Portuguese) but overall it was a good book. I want to read it again. Kind of surprised I didn't read it when it came out 10 years ago, but I don't think I was ready for it at that point in my life.