Be Useful

Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Narrated by: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.

The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.

Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold’s father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father’s adage close to his heart.

Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold’s tool kit for a meaningful life. He shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous; some told here for the first time ever.

Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he shares that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you—you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.

©2023 Arnold Schwarzenegger (P)2023 Penguin Audio

A Clear Concise picture of vision and purpose

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If you saw Mr. Schwarzenegger's Netflix special then you are ready for this book if you enjoyed it. I listen to Arnold's pump club podcast for five minutes every day. Like the title, it does pump you up. mr. Schwarzenegger uses clear and concise vocabulary in this book that paints A vivid picture of why and how to get a vision and purpose that will change your life. After listening to this book, you know that Mr. Schwarzenegger has desire, focus, and consistency beyond most of us humans. But you will get inspired to do at least one thing in your life that changes who you want to be.
Were are my comments of help?

Great book!

Arnold has great insights and advice! He uses his own experiences as proofs. I love his selfess-service personality and his comedic side. Amazing book!

A private chat with Arnold a Love every minute of o

Loved every minute of it. I wish it never ended, there was so much to learn from him. The audio book reading by him is a priceless private chat, a sit down for a coffee. I can listen to him forever. It was sad when it finished and read the last words. Arnold will be and is an influencer and a great human being for future generations.

Loved it

Arnold is the true definition of what you can achieve when you put your mind to it. I enjoyed his insights into his work ethic and thought process.

I highly recommend this book.

Inspired & Timely

Great listen! I often go back to Arnold’s YouTube speeches. This is even better! Thanks

inspirational for sure

cool to hear it from the man himself, though I don't agree with one thing he said. "the calves are the biceps of the legs" ummm NO ARNOLD! That would be the hamstrings. The calves are the forearms of the legs, bodybuilder man... :p Other than that, great book!

6hrs and 19mins of motivation

Outstanding loved it, loved it 6 hours 19 minutes, I needed to shut the world down for a day. To hear motivation in real time.Read by the author. Great job, Arnold.

Great motivation and story

You know most of his story but this book provides you the why and how to stay motivated. Arnold’s performance was genuine in how he read what he really wrote. At times it was like he really was speaking to you. Our team at our veteran service organization enjoyed this book and the motivation provided. -Veterans Activists

good book but...

is a good book with a story and a lessons the only down side is that I have personally follow his career because there is good blueprints for life there is nothing new if you know and follow for a while if you new to him or his way of see life is a great book with great lessons

he reaches my soul

just WOW! he gets it! Arnold is a long passion of mine and he never disappoints. His life and values are something to long for, appreciate, learn from and keep hearing/reading for centuries to come. Arnold has put some much of my own thoughts and morals in my head a voice. it's hard for me to explain most the time but he just gets it! Highly recommend!