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Unbelievable reality to grasp for somebody coming from outside of JD Vance's world

Revisado: 02-06-17

It was heartbreaking to follow along with this account of what the Hillbilly folks the author describes know as their lives.

JD Vance illuminates how far apart the world of America's middle class city kids are from the working class whites.

The author credits his breaking free from the almost certain gloomy future he was living into, to the statistic anomaly of a whole barrage of support factors that happened to be present in his life but that weren't available to most of the kids he grew up with.

This book renders a valuable service to readers from all social classes. A valuable eye opener for the judgmental amongst us white middle class people who extrapolate that our privilege was equally available to all white people, dismissing the finer distinctions of the realms of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

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I wish Mark were less abstract in this book

Revisado: 01-10-17

Great overall message and several stories and concepts resonated strongly with me.

Mark defines what makes good criteria for personal values, contemplates humanity's freedom to choose what we give f*$&s about and shares stories from his personal experience.

Whenever Mark shares from his life, I've found his writing to be extremely relatable.

Unfortunately his talent to distill the foundations behind the breakthroughs he's experiences does not translate into developing abstract philosophical concepts convincingly.

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Loved the insight into the mind of a corporate baller

Revisado: 10-03-16

Here's a guy with common sense, a strong moral compass and great work ethic who managed to turn these assets into a tremendous fortune.

Not to steal Greg's thunder, you should read the book yourself if you want to know what Greg's five steps are, but here are some of my favorite concepts, paraphrased from memory in my own words:

We all make thousands of decisions every day, yet most of us have no process to figure out how any of them affect our lives. Looking at how the 5 Fs are affected is a good start:
Faith
Family
Friends
Fitness
Finances

There are two kinds of companies or people that need a turnaround. Those who are at the very bottom, about to fail and those that are satisfactorily underperforming. What matters is how you're doing in relation to your potential and not in absolute terms.

You shouldn't ever blame your fourth wife for what the first one did.

You're better off making twenty decisions today, getting two of them wrong and spending a month to fix your mistakes than you would be spending one month making one perfect decision.

If life were a poker table with chips of differing value up for grabs, it pays to pay attention to how much each chip is worth before starting to grab the ones close by. Most people tackle their to-do lists not considering which action will have the biggest impact but rather starting with the easiest items first.

Work life balance is a bit of a myth, we should be aiming for work life integration instead.

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Extraordinary insight into an intriguing mind

Revisado: 09-20-16

There clearly cannot be an easy way to express your thoughts on the complexities of experiencing life and in particular youth as a black man in the U.S. and still Barack Obama has mastered the carpentry of words to the extent that the events he recounts are even relatable to somebody like myself who grew up with all the privileges of being a white male growing up in the Western world. Exceptional read.

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10x your life baby

Revisado: 02-02-15

At some point in the not so distant future I'll personally fly out to visit Grant to thank him for writing this book, but first I got some phone calls to make. to make.

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Great content, you might want to buy the book too

Revisado: 01-23-15

I could feel myself getting smarter as I was listening to this book.

If you ever wondered why nobody cared about what you had to say even if your idea was brilliant, Chip and Dan will answer your question if you let them so you can get your message across in the future.

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