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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of value in this book but I personally found it difficult to get through because of how cliché it was. I realized that I love reading success stories and this is not it, Bishop just tells you how it is that you need to get out of your comfort zone and into your life. He didn’t provide a story of how he did it.
It tries not to be another self-help book full of platitudes but it ends up being exactly that.
I'm not the right target for this book, but I can see how a lot of people could benefit from this message.
Not as bad as most self help. I wish he focused less on weight loss and body size. A lot of expanding on ideas from old philosophers and psychologists.
Fun listen, I enjoyed the narrators accent, but nothing really new that I hadn't heard before.
The advice in this book is very basic. It's all advice we know deep down but if you're in a rut in your life, reading it and having it said back to you is inspirational in a way that it isn't when you try to say it to yourself.
This book did not change my life or provide me with a new mindset that I didn't have before but I just finished it and I feel inspired to make changes in my life, so I guess it did its job.
This book did not change my life or provide me with a new mindset that I didn't have before but I just finished it and I feel inspired to make changes in my life, so I guess it did its job.
I don't usually rate nonfiction but this was so well written I have to give this 5/5. This is snappy and entertaining while being educational.
As far as any sort of personal development books go, this is a poor effort. I give it two stars because I went ahead and finished it. This is just a series of strung-together invectives sprinkled with quotes. This author claims to have coached thousands of people, yet he doesn't tell a single story to illustrate his points or show how they have been implemented by others. It's like he slapped together his notes and sent them to a publisher without bothering to make the effort to humanize anything. MANY books include the same themes and bring them to life much better. Read Brene Brown. Read Mel Robbins. Leave this one on the shelf.
Positive thinking/positive thoughts may be a touchy-feely subject, but not the way Bishop writes about it. Basically, he takes all the self-help books out there and sums it up in seven statements. This isn't "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough ..." -- but recognizing that we are what we think, so start being nicer to yourself and watch your life improve.