nicogaldamez's review
3.0
Tiene algunos consejos interesantes, aunque algunas partes parecía más un libro de autoayuda. De todas formas vale la pena leerlo.
nithou's review
5.0
Great insights about lots of things, making you realize a lot of things that are blocking you in life and how to overcome them.
moejawich's review
4.0
“the best stories don’t play off, and market to, our sense of inadequacy, but inspire us into a bigger, truer version of ourselves – a greater sense of the possible.”
agarbarino's review
5.0
Read this in one night. Granted it's a short book, but to pull that off it has to be a good one. It was. I'll probably come back to re-read parts of this book at times.
kathleenverhetsel's review
3.0
3.5/5
Op zich best een interessant boek en een motiverend boek, maar waarschijnlijk interessanter voor mensen die net met ondernemen willen beginnen (of aan het begin staan van een project). Maar het was fijn om te lezen dat hij keihard staat achter jezelf zijn, werk verrichten en hoe hij omgaat met alle onzekerheden die bij een creatief beroep (en leven op zich) komen kijken.
“What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how to play guitar?”
Op zich best een interessant boek en een motiverend boek, maar waarschijnlijk interessanter voor mensen die net met ondernemen willen beginnen (of aan het begin staan van een project). Maar het was fijn om te lezen dat hij keihard staat achter jezelf zijn, werk verrichten en hoe hij omgaat met alle onzekerheden die bij een creatief beroep (en leven op zich) komen kijken.
“What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how to play guitar?”
awolgs's review
2.0
I realized soon after beginning this book that it's not really the sort that I enjoy - it's a lot of short, blog-ish, encouragement to create, stay after it, don't give up, take risks, be true to yourself as you create, etc. Godin-esque in the vein of [b:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles|1319|The War of Art Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles|Steven Pressfield|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1388176109s/1319.jpg|722104]. Fine, but not for me.
Towards the end of reading this book, I started listening to [b:Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success|25813921|Grit Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success|Angela Duckworth|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1458533580s/25813921.jpg|45670634], and then the purpose of this sort of book clicked for me: it's a grit-encouragement book. Learning about grit (via Duckworth's book) is the sort of grit encouragement that I need and feel motivated by. Jarvis's approach is more rah-rah, do what I'm doing that (apparently) helps many others.
Towards the end of reading this book, I started listening to [b:Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success|25813921|Grit Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success|Angela Duckworth|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1458533580s/25813921.jpg|45670634], and then the purpose of this sort of book clicked for me: it's a grit-encouragement book. Learning about grit (via Duckworth's book) is the sort of grit encouragement that I need and feel motivated by. Jarvis's approach is more rah-rah, do what I'm doing that (apparently) helps many others.
strickvl's review
3.0
Quick, feel-good and sometimes feel-deep-style writing. Nothing particularly new here, but no problem with that either. Just generally inoffensive and a bit bland. But not a waste of time either.
More...