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Hugh

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Fascinating content but in bizarre order

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-10-25

The content was absolutely fascinating, from his early life as a morse code operator, through his excitement during the invention of the light bulb and the phonograph and many others, and all the way through in great detail to the huge honours that USA heaped upon him at the end of his life.

The order of the material was completely bizarre (hence my 1 star for Story), starting at the end of his life and working backwards. It was even worse than that, as each 10 year chunk was in a forward direction and then you jumped back 20 years, to then go forward another 10 years. What on earth was the author and the publishers thinking? It makes no sense whatsoever reading a biography from the end of a person's life backwards. I hated it so much that I ended up listening to the book in reverse order. This was super annoying to have to control (especially if listening in the car), and I never had any idea how much was left to listen to in the book. It would be a trivial thing to fix too, by just putting the chapters in true chronological order.

The content is well worth the effort, but the frustrating listening experience is a real shame.

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Cringeworthy disappointment

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1 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-05-24

I was really expecting something challenging and useful from this book, as I thought this was a bestseller. Instead, it scaffolds the idea of getting up at 5 a.m. around a cringeworthy story of a so-called spellbinder and an embarrassingly cliché and unbelievable billionaire who apparently does 1000 press-ups every day. Into the mouths of these characters are put poetically nice-sounding, but mostly worthless cringeworthy babble. They say ridiculous things like "We must live our luminous nature, and magnify our sovereign selves." or "You must start your pilgrimage to a territory called legacy." or "Today, and this very moment", the Spellbinder declares "deserves your commitment to become sublimely creative, pristinely productive, decadently decent, and of service to many. Please stop postponing your mastery, no longer resist your primal power, …the light of your most luminous self…".

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Useful insights for entrepreneurs

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-14-24

Firstly, let's make the title clear. The title E-Myth Revisited is rather confusing, because I think of E standing for Electronic (e.g. and e-cigarette is an electronic cigarette), whereas here the E stands for Entrepreneur, so E-Myth is Entrepreneur Myth.

The book is firstly to help entrepreneurs to clearly understand the differences between being a technician (e.g. baker, accountant, widget maker) and an entrepreneur when going into business. This it does extremely well, making very clear why many small businesses get into trouble. It then guides the entrepreneur through the steps needed to make whatever business as turn-key as possible.

The book switches back and forth between theoretical ideas and a dialogue with an imaginary baker in business. This format I think works well, helping root the theoretical concepts in a concrete example.

If you are a small business owner, or planning to become one, I would definitely recommend this book.

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The older you are, the more you should read this

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-31-24

This book is about how to live longer (lifespan) and, in particular, with a much better quality of life (healthspan) in the last decade(s) of life. The normally accepted path is for life to get worse and worse as we get older; this book is about trying to keep much healthier for longer, so we can enjoy the last decade(s) rather than simply enduring them. This book gives plenty of incentive (the why), and also plenty of actions to take (the how). The main negative I have with the book is that, for my liking, it sometimes goes into way too much medical detail, detail that I just don't really want or need. Overall though, even though this can be a heavy read at some points, I would strongly recommend it. In particular, the older you are, the more you should read it.

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Interesting, but quite heavy-going

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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-17-24

This was interesting, but rather heavy going. It was like attending university lectures about emotions. This book could equally be titled "Dictionary of Emotions", as it is basically a detailed walk-through of 80+ different emotions we experience. So, if you are expecting something like the Brené Brown funny/moving Ted Talk, you're probably better choosing something else, but if you don't mind a bit of hard work to learn about all the different emotions we experience, then this could be for you.

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Interesting and valuable, but not riveting

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-18-23

The subject matter makes this an extremely important book. The presentation is quite interesting, but not riveting.

A major annoyance is the repeated description of graphs which are being shown to the lecture audience, but we, as just listeners cannot of course see. Even in the accompanying 87-page PDF the graphs are not shown in-line with the chapters, are only in black-and-white, and are often aligned vertically for a horizontal image making them very hard to read. The whole point of an audio book though is that I want to listen to a book, not read it, so the numerous graphs being described is super-annoying when just listening.

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extremely thought-provoking

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-06-23

This book is like attending a serious of University theology lectures with one of the most gifted communicators possible. It's extremely though-provoking, but very comprehensible.

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Born to Win: The Ultimate Seminar Audiolibro Por Zig Ziglar arte de portada

Great, but short, and a bit disjointed

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-31-23

I love Zig Ziglar, but this title is very short (only just over 2 hours), so I would definitely choose for his longer works. It's also a mash up of different presentations, so overall it's a bit disjointed. What he says is great, but there are better titles of his available: full length and more properly structured.

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Just a bit dull

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-12-21

There's nothing strongly wrong about this, but I found it just a bit dull. It's a bit like a course at University which you have to take, but isn't really very interesting. There are some interesting nuggets, such as the details of the history of the telephone, but overall not really enough to make it worth a strong recommendation.

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A lot of important-sounding phrases

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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-22-21

I listened to it completely twice and didn't really get anything much from it. It seemed to have a lot of important-sounding phrases, but not much that I thought, "Hey, that's great". Here's a sample: "It [liminal thinking] opens the door to a world of contingency, where events and meanings, indeed, reality itself can be molded and carried in different directions." I didn't find the stories or the proposed behaviour resonated with me. "Liminal thinking owes a great debt to Jainism and Buddhism...". Maybe your experience with the book will be more positive.

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