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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Excellent Read
This is an excellent book for anyone looking to improve their personal and business self image. A must read for sure!!
This is an excellent book for anyone looking to improve their personal and business self image. A must read for sure!!
I found this in Spotify's new audiobook selection, and it looked interesting. The book definitely contains some good, albeit somewhat generic, advice, but overall, it feels pretty dated and not as relevant as it probably was when it was published 50+ years ago.
informative
slow-paced
There were parts of this book that were definitely useful, but I won't lie, it was not the easiest read. It took me 9 months to get through it which is wild. The ending was very valuable though!
Just ok. A lot of clichés and very trite remarks. Some of the advice was still sound, but some was very dated.
Useful book but utterly, utterly boring to read. I had to use the read aloud feature in my phone to be able to finish it.
Tiene ciertas ideas interesantes, y no sé si ha sido la traducción, pero lo cierto es que no es el libro que más me ha gustado de este género.
Decent book, would be more effective reading closely and implementing. Especially helpful for sales and upper management. Heard how Trump was heavily influenced by this, and I can see it.
Gave up only 30-40 pages in, because it was too painful to carry on.
One of those books where author states hundreds of "real life examples" - e.g. "one friend of mine" or "a baker from South Florida" - without ever stating their names or any other checkable facts. The whole book is repetitive, feels totally artificial (or better said *made up*) and I almost found the tone it was written in borderline insulting.
Wanna read a great book of this kind? Go for The science of getting rich or anything written by legendary Napoleon Hill.
One of those books where author states hundreds of "real life examples" - e.g. "one friend of mine" or "a baker from South Florida" - without ever stating their names or any other checkable facts. The whole book is repetitive, feels totally artificial (or better said *made up*) and I almost found the tone it was written in borderline insulting.
Wanna read a great book of this kind? Go for The science of getting rich or anything written by legendary Napoleon Hill.
This one has some good ideas in it, but I guess I expected more from a classic. First published in 1959, the book appears on many "must read" lists, and is sometimes quoted by modern authors. I enjoyed it, but maybe not as much as I expected to.
There is something very appealing about the simple idea that we can all direct the course of our lives by choosing thoughts that lead us toward achievement and happiness. Napoleon Hill wrote about it in the 1930s and Wayne Dyer has churned out a couple dozen books around this theme. It is compelling. In 2007, Rhonda Byrne's book The Secret did the literary equivalent of going viral. At least it did in my social circle.
One of the most helpful of Schwartz's chapters is called "Think Right Toward People" in which he links success with likeability... and likeability with authenticity. If there is someone you don't like, or who you disagree with, they know it. So when we smile and fake a pleasant demeanor, we can be immediately spotted as insincere, which damages our trustworthiness. Since we really cannot fool people, the solution has to be in adjusting our attitude: we have to go in to every encounter with an intention to genuinely like the other person. Easier said than done, of course, but clearly worth the effort.
All in all, I am glad I read this one, and glad I have good notes to refer back to. (Posted to www.WhatIsCathyReading.com of course.) I like to think that I have substantially improved the quality of my own life by adopting many of Schwartz's principles, though there is still much internal work to be done. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a way out of a rut of their own making
There is something very appealing about the simple idea that we can all direct the course of our lives by choosing thoughts that lead us toward achievement and happiness. Napoleon Hill wrote about it in the 1930s and Wayne Dyer has churned out a couple dozen books around this theme. It is compelling. In 2007, Rhonda Byrne's book The Secret did the literary equivalent of going viral. At least it did in my social circle.
One of the most helpful of Schwartz's chapters is called "Think Right Toward People" in which he links success with likeability... and likeability with authenticity. If there is someone you don't like, or who you disagree with, they know it. So when we smile and fake a pleasant demeanor, we can be immediately spotted as insincere, which damages our trustworthiness. Since we really cannot fool people, the solution has to be in adjusting our attitude: we have to go in to every encounter with an intention to genuinely like the other person. Easier said than done, of course, but clearly worth the effort.
All in all, I am glad I read this one, and glad I have good notes to refer back to. (Posted to www.WhatIsCathyReading.com of course.) I like to think that I have substantially improved the quality of my own life by adopting many of Schwartz's principles, though there is still much internal work to be done. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a way out of a rut of their own making
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced