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A review by justin92
The 5am Club by Robin S. Sharma
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.