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Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
DID NOT FINISH
I have mixed feelings about this book. The author's bio says that he's a conman (what?) Also this is a book written in like the 1920s, and it doesn't really hold up well a hundred years later.
The book reads like a series of motivational posters mixed with clickbait articles.
In the book, the author basically says something like "You want to know how to succeed? I'm not going to tell you and I want you to figure it out." Which is fine by me, I'll all for experiential learning and not being spoonfed, but what follows in the book is a very basic set of principles that everyone kind of knows.
These principles are likely common sense now because of the huge influx of information we have online - so many interviews of successful people where they share what led to their success, so many articles and posts sharing the mindsets that help them succeed, and so on.
I could not bring myself to finish a book that teaches me the importance of faith, desire, persistence, and so on.
I've looked at enough motivational posters of the like when I was a little kid in primary school, so this book and its writing style is not my cup of tea.
The book reads like a series of motivational posters mixed with clickbait articles.
In the book, the author basically says something like "You want to know how to succeed? I'm not going to tell you and I want you to figure it out." Which is fine by me, I'll all for experiential learning and not being spoonfed, but what follows in the book is a very basic set of principles that everyone kind of knows.
These principles are likely common sense now because of the huge influx of information we have online - so many interviews of successful people where they share what led to their success, so many articles and posts sharing the mindsets that help them succeed, and so on.
I could not bring myself to finish a book that teaches me the importance of faith, desire, persistence, and so on.
I've looked at enough motivational posters of the like when I was a little kid in primary school, so this book and its writing style is not my cup of tea.