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A review by jeffpowell
Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Tony Robbins, Peter Mallouk
3.0
Quality of the financial advice he gives: 5/5
Relevancy to a broad audience: 4/5
Writing style: 3/5
It was hard to really love this book. The advice was really good and has led me to a few actionable items I plan on addressing soon.
However, he would often say pretty much the same thing over and over again, presumably to drive the point in. It felt a little exhausting to me, though. His writing style took on the tone of a dive-without-planning podcaster. The sections and chapters felt rather disconnected. It didn't help that he frequently referenced his much more detailed book Money: Master the Game, saying something to the effect of "If you'd like to learn more detail about this subject, reference this chapter in my other book."
Part of the purpose of the book was to reach a broader audience, including less financially savvy folks, by writing a smaller, more summarized book. But I found that the advice seemed to mostly focused on investment of savings, completely hand-waving the topics of budgeting and debt management, making it harder for some to really believe his vision of becoming unshakeable.
I found the third section especially hard to stay focused in. I wouldn't say he should have taken it out--having proper motivation for building wealth and understanding what makes you happy is important--just don't tell the reader that you're going to repeat all this information in a book you're going to write later!
Relevancy to a broad audience: 4/5
Writing style: 3/5
It was hard to really love this book. The advice was really good and has led me to a few actionable items I plan on addressing soon.
However, he would often say pretty much the same thing over and over again, presumably to drive the point in. It felt a little exhausting to me, though. His writing style took on the tone of a dive-without-planning podcaster. The sections and chapters felt rather disconnected. It didn't help that he frequently referenced his much more detailed book Money: Master the Game, saying something to the effect of "If you'd like to learn more detail about this subject, reference this chapter in my other book."
Part of the purpose of the book was to reach a broader audience, including less financially savvy folks, by writing a smaller, more summarized book. But I found that the advice seemed to mostly focused on investment of savings, completely hand-waving the topics of budgeting and debt management, making it harder for some to really believe his vision of becoming unshakeable.
I found the third section especially hard to stay focused in. I wouldn't say he should have taken it out--having proper motivation for building wealth and understanding what makes you happy is important--just don't tell the reader that you're going to repeat all this information in a book you're going to write later!