This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This book was certainly not for me. Its just another one of those "fluff" books where the author tries to fool you into thinking that they have the simple answer to all the complicated problems in your professional and personal life. What this book repeats over and over again is that all you need to succeed is to be positive and never give up. How do you get there according to the book? -By deluding yourself with repeated monologues of course.
Although confidence is an important part of the mindset of a successful person, its far from the whole package. And in some cases its pure madness to just be positive and keep on pushing when you are clearly on the wrong track.
Has Think and Grow Rich turned you off from other books in this genre?
Absolutely. I got this book from the "business" section. This is not business, this is cheap pop psychology and in my opinion does more harm than good. In the future I'll be sure to screen the books I choose a bit more carefully.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Erik Synnestvedt?
The narrator was fine.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Think and Grow Rich?
I would have made it into one chapter perhaps of a motivational book for people with very low self esteem.
Any additional comments?
Although feeling empowered for a short period of time, most people reading this book will not benefit at all from it. Eventually that initial empowerment will fade and they move on to the next "scam", probably from Tony Robbins or some equally naked emperor. In my personal experience, the people I know that listen to and believe this rubbish are "self help" junkies and they are without exception failures in life in every single way.
They are often the same kind of people who get caught in Amway style pyramid scams or new age healing courses.
