The Mindset

My Journey from Janitor to Silicon Valley Millionaire in Five Years

By: Ace Bowers

Narrated by: Joe Passaro

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

At the age of 22, Bowers was thrown the biggest curveball of his life. He was forced to choose which path he was going to take: continue the cycle of family poverty or break it. The Mindset is an inspirational memoir of Ace Bowers’ personal transformation from janitor to millionaire. Bowers began his journey uneducated, overweight, addicted to cigarettes, in debt, and depressed.

Revealing the skeletons in his closet for the first time set the scene for how he got to the point of cleaning a motel for $6 an hour. Bowers’ detailed accounts of his turbulent and traumatizing childhood illustrate what it is like growing up in a poor, alcoholic, and abusive family.

The metamorphosis began as soon as he changed his mindset. Within five years, Bowers was able to completely turn his life around, going from trash to technology. This memoir illuminates step by step his unconventional path to wealth, health, and happiness.

©2019 Asa Bowers (P)2019 Asa Bowers

Interesting account of becoming a millionaire

I began to read The Mindset by Ace Bowers expecting it to be somewhat of an instruction guide as to how to have the proper mindset to become a millionaire. I was surprised to find that it was a brief memoir of Ace Bowers . He did a good job explaining his life and how he got his millionaire mindset in such a short book.

When Ace got his girlfriend pregnant when he was 21, he realized that he did not want his child to go through the same childhood as he did. He quit his minimum wage job and moved in with his parents for 1 year so he could save and get a place for him, his wife and baby. Ace changed his mindset. He focused on out-working everyone else. He was willing to start at the bottom and work his way up. It worked and he went from minimum wage to a $125,000 a year job.

The book was well written and well edited. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars simply because I am kind of reluctant to give 5 stars to any book. I recommend reading The Mindset by Ace Bowers. The book is short so it would be a quick read.

Wow! Beautiful, touching, profound.

I really don’t want to ruin it for you. Please just read/listen to this book. It’s beautiful, touching, and profound. I hope this gets made into a movie.

Priceless gift

A priceless gift for anyone who is or has ever been down on their luck or feels life has dealt them a bad hand.

Poignant story of overcoming a difficult childhood

Not a rahrah motivational book. A real story of bad childhood followed by resilience, responsibility and hard work, and not concocted set of cases studies.

Could be titled "Look at me and my stuff"

I had the impression this would be a story about someone who had learned something profound, it was this guy's perspective on his childhood and the influence on his choices.
Big Lesson: Have premarital sex and get pregnant and you will find motivation. While his bounce back was commendable, he is conceited and self oriented. Not materialistic? The cover photo screams materialistic. I kept expecting stories of how he helped other's, but it was more a condescending narrative about how he was doing better and so disappointed that others were not like him. And his values at the end are all just him and how he appreciates only family, but it seems doubtful he would have the same happiness without his "multimillionaire" status. Completely disappointed with this "memoir"of narcissistic self promotion. $8000 is massive debt?? Try $150000 student loan as debt. I wanted to hear how he used his success to help others, but nothing except how his friend made him feel bad because he was addicted and overdosed. Or how his mom's childhood sex abuse made her behave bad. This guy lacks empathy.

Narrator was excellent, spoke clearly and had a decent tone of voice.

Overall I would not recommend. Yes a forward thinking mindset can make change happen...but this is not a helpful tale as it is more just bragging about how good he has it now.