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A review by gloame
The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins
4.0
Like any self help book, this one suffers from the same “repetitive encouragement” as all the rest. Folks complaining about that just need to accept it’s the current genre standard.
I quite liked the layout and found it easy to read and easy to digest. I liked the formatting of the text and I liked the screenshots of people telling their stories.
There were some typos that could’ve benefitted from another once over by an editor. Or instead of Our. Repeated words. I caught about 6-10. I usually only catch 1 or 2 in pubbed books, so the 6-10 stood out. Nothing too egregious.
The 5 Second Rule itself is explained right away. It takes about three paragraphs to fully cover it. You might ask yourself why a whole book needed to be devoted to it then. I think the book was deserved. For one thing, reading something in a book sticks with your brain longer than something in an article (I’ve absolutely seen MR’s Ted Talk several times and read her website). The repetition helps too.
But really, she covers a lot of different applications for the 5SR, complementary neuro tricks, and explains why they work. I love knowing why things work.
So yes. You could learn the 5SR in a blog post and save yourself the time. But I thought the whole book was worth reading and it really helped to cement the concept in my mind. Absolutely recommend.
I quite liked the layout and found it easy to read and easy to digest. I liked the formatting of the text and I liked the screenshots of people telling their stories.
There were some typos that could’ve benefitted from another once over by an editor. Or instead of Our. Repeated words. I caught about 6-10. I usually only catch 1 or 2 in pubbed books, so the 6-10 stood out. Nothing too egregious.
The 5 Second Rule itself is explained right away. It takes about three paragraphs to fully cover it. You might ask yourself why a whole book needed to be devoted to it then. I think the book was deserved. For one thing, reading something in a book sticks with your brain longer than something in an article (I’ve absolutely seen MR’s Ted Talk several times and read her website). The repetition helps too.
But really, she covers a lot of different applications for the 5SR, complementary neuro tricks, and explains why they work. I love knowing why things work.
So yes. You could learn the 5SR in a blog post and save yourself the time. But I thought the whole book was worth reading and it really helped to cement the concept in my mind. Absolutely recommend.