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Excellently Portrayed Real life application

Reviewed in Australia on 20 December 2020

I loved this book, and what it stands for. Your own improvement. This provides some wonderful tools based off solid research. I will be applying these in my life tomorrow and every day after. I really appreciated the appendix where he provides his own experience with the tools and how he used them.
Excellent book :)

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Gaspard Marsala

Anecdotal over Practical

Reviewed in Australia on 10 May 2016

I wish the author had spent more time outlining strategies and giving some practically advice - it's in there (sort of) however the books structure is confusing anecdotal stories are abruptly cut and reappear after another anecdote.

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Iftekar Shaikh

Duplicate copy

Reviewed in India on 9 March 2022

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Bad paper n print quality, dont buy!

Sonali p.

Color of book

Reviewed in India on 17 April 2021

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Which color of book did you received?
I expected orange colored book as shown by someone in comments but i received white colored😑

K. Cletheroe

Big on stories, short on substance. Fast food for your brain

Reviewed in Canada on 23 April 2016

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If you're looking for tips or ways to actually be more productive or do things smarter, faster or better you're going to be disappointed.
Too little substance and too much superfluous stories. Seriously it should be condensed down into the eight main ideas and then just go from there. Stories that drag on and on...you could just find these stories in any blog on high achievers or in biographies. Wouldn't recommend this book. Especially for the inflated kindle price. All of this and more can be found for free on the Internet.

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drmann30

Lacked practical tips to make one smarter, faster, better

Reviewed in Canada on 19 June 2016

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I found that the book had a lot of anecdotes, but not many practical tips on how to be smarter, faster, better. I liked Charles' book titled: The Power of Habit, but unfortunately this book lacks the practicality I was expecting.

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Much text - little facts and little learning.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2016

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Too much text and story compared to facts and learning. Written more like a novel than a book to learn from. Boring.

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No actionable insight.

Reviewed in India on 3 August 2016

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Too verbose - you have to wade through a ton of stories to get to anything that's useful. The author does not write in a clear and direct manner and keeps trying to impress the reader with his journalistic abilities. Unfortunately, not all of of us may have the time to appreciate this kind of writing.

The effort required to swim through all of the "bovine and equine effluents" in order to find a few valuable tidbits of actionable insight does not seem to be worth it.

The book has a subtitle - "The Secrets of Being Productive" ... maybe the real secret is to avoid reading these kinds of books.

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Kelsey K

Why all the good reviews??

Reviewed in the United States on 19 February 2022

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First few pages were good. Then….didn’t live up to expectations at all.

Overrated book

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Book is great. Physical condition was very, very poor.

Reviewed in the United States on 11 February 2020

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Loved the book but the overall physical condition was junk. I wouldn't have purchased it knowing the condition upfront.

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Whispering Smith

What a waste of time and money

Reviewed in the United States on 13 July 2016

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A well researched and written book, EXCEPT it is not a book about improving your productivity at all. The author sets the premise up by referring to the accomplishments of Atul Gawande and asking why some people accomplish so much more than others. The rest of the book then meanders through one anecdote after another without even attempting to tie the anecdotes to the main premise he begins with. What a waste of time and money!

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Learner

Unproductive book. Filled with filler, anecdotes, wasteful.

Reviewed in the United States on 26 July 2017

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I wanted to be more productive, smarter, better. BUT this book is filled with "filler", stories and wasteful anecdotes. The "productivity" principles that it is supposed to teach it is lost and hidden in lots of lots of words. I am doing my best to "extract" the hidden gems but it is really annoying that the author just hides it away and wastes our time and make us less productive in doing so.

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