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grant cardone obsessed or be average highly recommend great book must read game changer easy to read changed my life audio version feed the beast next level thank you grant eye opener anyone who wants recommend this book great read gives you permission sell or be sold real deal amazing book
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Leif Arnesen
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS THE WAKE UP CALL YOU'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2016
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I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks. Grant is BY FAR the BEST narrator I have ever listened to. Period. And this is his best book yet...which is QUITE a statement.

Here are the things I love about Be Obsessed or Be Average:
1) I really loved learning more about his personal story of his battle with drug addition.
2) I love his attitude and the way he tells everything it like it is. He wants everyone to know him, but he’s not out to win a popularity contest. I seriously respect him for his no-BS attitude.

Here are the main takeaways I got from Be Obsessed or Be Average:

1) There is no one thing in life that you should be obsessed about. Be obsessed with EVERYTHING! Be OBSESSED with being an incredible son/daughter/mother/father/brother/sister/friend/etc. Be OBSESSED with being a rockstar entrepreneur, salesman, or whatever your career path might be. Be OBSESSED with achieving your ideal physique. Be OBSESSED with amassing a monstrous net worth for your family and to pursue opportunities to help others. Be OBSESSED with giving back to your family, your community, and the world! Be OBSESSED with learning to cook, play guitar, sing, dance, and improve yourself every day!
2) Don't simply love yourself the way you are. Be grateful for life and the limitless opportunities around you, but don't settle. Be grateful, but don’t be content. As I like to say, I’m “PROUD BUT NEVER SATISFIED."
3) Keep it simple stupid. The people who do nothing often get complex first. For example, Grant says that he was at first skeptical about social media, but then learned a bit about it, realized its potential, and then dove in head first with MASSIVE ACTION while his competition was asking "How do you calculate the ROI of social media?” Stupid question…keep it simple and favor action. Planning is great, but “preparation” too often becomes procrastination.
4) Comfort is your biggest threat in today's economy. Being out at sea is safer than hiding in the harbor.
5) You can re-create yourself anywhere. Moving to a new city or town is an opportunity for monster personal growth.
6) OVER-promise and OVER-deliver. Grant says this all the time and the phrase is a game changer. Go ALL IN…EVERY TIME. “Under-promise and over-deliver” is a phrase for under achievers. As Grant says in The 10X Rule, “Imagine that the products and services we’re so often temped to buy used ‘average’ in their advertising: ’This fairly average product can be found at an average price and delivers mediocre results.’ Who would buy such a product? People certainly don’t go out of their way to find and pay for run-of-the-mill merchandise.” Promise BIG results and deliver at an even HIGHER level.
7) YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO BE OBSESSED! There is nothing wrong with being obsessed. Anyone who pushes beyond average will face ridicule from society. If you’ve got 10 haters, let’s make it 20.

I simple have no negative comments about this book. It is quite possibly the best book I have ever read.

Thank you so much Grant. I love you man. I can’t wait to take you out for lunch some day soon. Maybe when I hit my first million :)

Thanks for reading this review. If you thought it was helpful, I’d appreciate a thumbs up! Thanks and have a great day!!

I AM OBSESSED AND REFUSE TO HAVE AN AVERAGE LIFE. #BEOBSESSED
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Tiger10
5.0 out of 5 stars Much Needed Realization
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2017
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I read this book in 2 days. While flying through the chapters I felt an immediate connection and it was as if I had been talking to myself. This book helped me realized the mistake in slowing down and taking it slow and most would tell any ambitious millennial who dared to dream big and make those dreams public. As soon as I finished reading the last chapter in this book I sat down and wrote all the things in my life that were not helping me reach my fullest potential. This included having a conversation with my husband about being on the same page, about telling my friends that I am no longer a drinking buddy, booking monthly sales conferences 3 months out and taking my butt back to the gym tomorrow. As a child I grew up being told that I couldn't have everything, to get a government job because it was secure. All this advice came from people who never took their own advice and were from the lower class with no sign of moving up. All in all, I give this book 5 thumbs up and have decided to go all in because of it. Anyone who is in need of an eye opener. Read this book!
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Jeff Eskow
3.0 out of 5 stars Be a Book and Be Average
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017
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First, I'll preface this by saying I am not a Cardone hater. I like him, I like his message and I like his drive. I've read almost all of hiis books and I regularly scan thru his videos on YouTube for tip and motivation.

Overall this book wasn't "bad"...but GC has saturated YouTube so deeply that I didnt find much in here that I didnt already hear from him in an interview of webinar.

As far as the book itself, here are the reasons why I only marked it as 3 stars/average:
1) The first 90-plus pages read as a motivational speech. It kept telling you "you can DO this! You can be great!" Which is nice...but 90+ pages of rooting me on was way, way too much. I want content. I want actionable advice.

2) on roughly every 3rd page, Grant takes a sentence you just read and re-prints it in a box that takes up 1/2 the page. It';s designed to look like a Twitter post (tweet). But I just read that sentence 2 sentences ago...and this is a book, NOT Twitter. So if you take those mock tweets out, your book is about 1/3 smaller. #RepeatedContent #NotValuable #WatedPaged

3) Book is 25% repeat of content he's shared in previous books. I'm a very big fan of the 10X Rule (and even THAT has repeated content throughout it) and this book just didnt compare in way of motivating me OR enlightening me.

If you are on a tight budget, look up "Be obsessed" on YouTube and you should be able to get most of the info in this book via his interviews. Personally, I got this book at a deep discount and just wanted it in my Personal Improvement collection.

Not a "bad" book, but not stellar.
a Solid 3 stars.
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the_guitar_man
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2017
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I own all of cardone's books and this is most definitely up there as being the best one he's written. I myself have only been a salesman for a month and after taking everything on that he writes about my managers are wondering how I'm selling and closing deals at a better rate than people that have been there for years.
This book covers everything from the idea of becoming obsessed to the struggles associated with working with average people. The main lesson this teaches you is to give yourself permission to become obsessed with success instead of viewing it as destructive. It's a book I will constantly come back to and re-read on a regular basis, as I do with all of his books.
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dreamkev888
5.0 out of 5 stars ... this book and I had to say it was great, The information was priceless but it was slightly ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2017
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Just finished reading this book and I had to say it was great, The information was priceless but it was slightly all over the place without much structure to it but hey! I just jotted down the key notes needed and thats all you need! But why the full 5 stars? Grant has changed the way I view life and money and we should all be so grateful to have someone out there who is telling the truth which may hurt many people but it surly healed my innocent self! They call him uncle G but I call him my "White Uncle G! as I am a pure Chinaman! But I had to say I wish I did have such an uncle to guide me through the true reality of life and shine the light on me which this book did just that. Finally I now have the permission to be obsessed thanks to uncle G.

Your Chinese nephew!
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tex
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Motivator
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2017
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I read other reviews that initially put me off buying this book.

Things like its the same as his other books and he hasn't fully thought the book through before releasing it, but I'm glad I bought it anyway.

I've listened to 10x (a really good book in my opinion) and feel this is sufficiently different.

Grant has achieved some massive goals and I, personally, like his attitude to goals, life and achievements- basically don't let anything get in your way. Absolutely nothing!

His style won't be for everyone. If he offends you, I don't think he cares. It's not that he's a prat, just that if you don't agree with him, he's fine with that.

Overall, I enjoyed it. Asked myself some really good questions as a result of reading it and plan to read it again in the future.
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Jon Surman
3.0 out of 5 stars I love Grant Cardones work
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2016
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I love Grant Cardones work, books, courses and he has highly influenced my ongoing learning and business direction more than any, other trainer, author, mentor, this book is a good book and has some great information in to help anyone, my only reservation about this book i, this book can echo a lot of what you may have already read if you have read his other top notch books the 10x rule, if your not fist your last, sell or be sold, .

Still worth a read, and to be honest if you read 10x then you should already be firing on all cylinders, reading this can just help add some fuel to the fire.
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Bruno
5.0 out of 5 stars The inner game of entrepreneurship.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2017
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It was the missing puzzle piece of my entrepreneurial capabilities.

An entrepreneur without this is like
a high tech PC running on Windows 98 — not going too far without a great and updated operating system.

I reccomend this book to everybody who wants to become successful. This book shows you the mentallity to make it real.

And it made me discover Grant Cardone which is a great entrepreneur who deserves much more attention. He is the entrepreneurial soul as I've never seen.
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