A review by livlight
Agent You: Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms by Nicole Lynn

3.0

Nicole definitely gives great advice here, but there are some aspects I simply can’t agree with, the largest being “sacrificing” your health for work. I understand that this was her own “sacrifice” and that we each would have our own, but I felt like she was almost promoting this sacrifice and glorifying it. In a world where work/life balance is becoming more and more important, I felt like this was a bit out of touch with reality. Similarly, promoting working for free in order to gain experience didn’t sit well with me. I come from the world of architecture and this is one of the biggest crack downs in our field, as unpaid internships have been notorious in architecture over the years. Specifically in this profession, you could easily work 60 hours a week without noticing the time fly by. If you are working this much and this hard, you deserve compensation. I understand Nicole’s point, but I don’t agree with promoting this idea into the minds of young adults who have bills to pay and only a limited amount of time on this planet.