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edorsettmill's review against another edition
Honestly found the fictional story so frustrating and long winded. Very difficult to take seriously.
lambchops814's review
inspiring
medium-paced
3.0
As someone who already wakes up at 4 during the week, I didn't need to be convinced to wake up early, but I did appreciate the author's tips for how to optimize your day and chunk your time better. I'm not a huge fan of books without character names, and I found the second half much more useful than the first.
justin92's review against another edition
1.0
BLUF: Couldn't finish after about halfway done. 15% of the book is about the information which is wake up an hour early and exercise, study, and pray/meditate during that hour, 35% is a horrible 2-dimensional fictional story, and 50% is reprints of humanity's most famous quotes and 2000's pop culture quotes.
This book has some good info but it could have been wrote as a few blog posts or a newsletter. The book is mainly filled with quotes by famous people which are used constantly (felt like every paragraph or two had a quote) or some of the most used statements of the 2000s, examples being that people are addicted to smart phones and exercise is good for you. The book is also wrote as a fictional novel, which includes an entrepreneur who is getting death threats from their job, a starving artist that is a caricature of an ethnic group, (they both fall madly in love) a mystical guru who has the key to perfection (think John Galt of Atlas Shrugged) and the guru's disciple who has become a billionaire, owns cars and islands, has a retinue of servants who speak multiple languages, and even a personal security force which the disciple tasks to discover who is sending death threats to the entrepreneur. And it is all made possible because the disciple follows the guru's advice of waking up at 5AM every morning and spending 20 minutes exercising, 20 minutes in professional development, and 20 minutes following a spiritual path of one's choice. It was at this point I stopped reading. Good luck to those who continue on. Couldn't spend anymore of my life energy on limited returns.
This book has some good info but it could have been wrote as a few blog posts or a newsletter. The book is mainly filled with quotes by famous people which are used constantly (felt like every paragraph or two had a quote) or some of the most used statements of the 2000s, examples being that people are addicted to smart phones and exercise is good for you. The book is also wrote as a fictional novel, which includes an entrepreneur who is getting death threats from their job, a starving artist that is a caricature of an ethnic group, (they both fall madly in love) a mystical guru who has the key to perfection (think John Galt of Atlas Shrugged) and the guru's disciple who has become a billionaire, owns cars and islands, has a retinue of servants who speak multiple languages, and even a personal security force which the disciple tasks to discover who is sending death threats to the entrepreneur. And it is all made possible because the disciple follows the guru's advice of waking up at 5AM every morning and spending 20 minutes exercising, 20 minutes in professional development, and 20 minutes following a spiritual path of one's choice. It was at this point I stopped reading. Good luck to those who continue on. Couldn't spend anymore of my life energy on limited returns.
naquare's review against another edition
The storyline is so annoying. I get that the author is trying to make the book more interesting using characters, but that was not what I was expecting and it honestly makes retaining the good content very difficult. It’s just annoying to get through.
samelia's review against another edition
3.0
Has some great points that can instil motivation but is delivered in a rather cheesy manner that can almost be cringe worthy at times.
deliajh's review
5.0
I loved this book! The story line was a little weird with the love story of the characters but the points were taught excellently!