Elevate

Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others

De: Robert Glazer, Stewart Friedman - foreword

Narrado por: Robert Glazer, Stewart Friedman

Now a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best seller!

What are your limits? Care to break them?

To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down.

In Elevate, Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles - or capacities - that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, and find your "why". As we look to elevate ourselves, we mean so much more than beating the competition. After all, our greatest competition is ourselves! We need to find ways to consistently outperform ourselves and our own expectations.

Robert Glazer has built a career on accelerating productivity and careers. Elevate is based on his five foundational elements necessary for increasing our capacity: finding your why, overcoming self-limiting beliefs, setting goals and creating accountability, maintaining health and wellness, and establishing routine and positive habits.

The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you. It's time to break free of your limits.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains the action steps from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Robert Glazer (P)2020 Random House Audio

Listening for the 3rd time

Incredible message about our ability to impact ourselves and others. Makes me believe I am capable of more.

Simply to the point for self improvement

I enjoyed this book because it has given me the most valuable guidelines for living a focused life.
Terry L.

Short summary covering items are from other books

This book is a short summary of what you can find in many other books. I didn’t find it to be a better summary. My recommendation would be to purchase “Why People Fail” by Simon Reynolds.

very educational

I love this book alot. it taught me to be a better version of myself. thank you.

its time to elevate!

Very informative and a guide to self improvement! love it! book is a must read

Most everything is from other experts

Most everything he talks about is from other experts. Nothing original. Boring for me. Sigh

Very superficial, shallow summary of popular business books

As you can see from the length of this audiobook, this book touches only a surface of famous business books and keeps name-dropping. I couldn't get what are the unique perspectives of the authors even after I finished listening to it.

Alright "reference" book -- hard to recommend

The good, the bad, the ugly...

good: the book presents a nice enough framework for seeing ideas from personal development through these 4 axes: spiritual, physical, mental, emotional. I first came across those 4 categories in the book "The Power of Full Engagement" (PoFE) and find that general breakdown helpful...this book, Elevate, talks about "Capacity" in those 4 categories, whereas PoFE talks about "Energy" in those 4 categories. so, this lens is nice, and its nice to see the author's take on them

bad: I don't really get the greatest sense about the author. some people give off a vibe where you're like "oh he walks his talk, what he says and how he says it feels congruent." This author kinda just feels like he's repeating what he read in some book, and kinda gets it. he'll do things like say some quote, who said it, and then say "I really agree with that!" he kinda talks in a way where you get the sense he wants to sound cooler and smarter than he really is. Like, if I met him at a party, I imagine he would be the kind of person who is not particularly high status himself, but would strategize about how to be around the actually high status people there, and how to be seen with and around those high status people. like...seems like a "nice enough guy" but just not especially competent or genuine. this doesn't take away from the fact that, yes, the framework he shares (in the "good") is a nice and handy one.

the ugly: I just have to repeat, it doesn't feel like he has knowledge himself...he just feels like he repeats stuff from other people. Like, in some place he says "studies show..." and my mind immediately goes "uh, does he know what a study is? has he actually read one? does he actually know how to INTERPRET them?" when I've spoken with a competent medical professionals about drugs or surgeries, there are always "but's", "if's", "it depend's" and lots of caveats. for example, a surgeon gave me the basic insight "surgery is hard to do real rigorous research on because different surgeons learned from other different surgeons, its hard to categorize situations into exact cases, because there's lots of variation, yada yada yada." just understanding basic facts like these tell me that someone talking about research is complex. this author feels like he just reads "Studies show" out of an academic person's book (e.g. Angela Duckworth's "Grit" which he likes and cites) and repeats it in his book without knowing what he is talking about

is this book for you? well, the reason I like this book is that it provides this nice framework that helps categorize and make sense of stuff I have read in other places. he's not really going to give you any special "answers". For example, in the chapter in health, he's going to say "you should exercise" and "you should eat well" and "you should sleep and manage stress." he doesn't give any special info on these things. Whereas if you read a legitimate health book like Peter Attia's Outlive, Peter will tell you about the 4 types of exercise that he recommends to his patients, and why, and how to think about them; he will tell you about the major killers and why you need to worry about them early in life, etc. There is actual meat in a book like Peter Attia's. Its opinionated (but also informed) and he will tell you why his opinion is the way it is. Elevate is nowhere near that. Its a quick, cursory glance at the topic of personal development. The real value here is just giving you a framework when you're fully zoomed out which gives you the table of contents. If you like frameworks like this, get the book. If not...feel free to skip it.

and special reminder. I don't find the author especially likeable. I might compare him to having some of the bad parts of Tim Ferriss without as much of the good parts of Tim Ferriss. My summary on Tim is something like this: "really smart guy, seems like you could learn a LOT from him, but...I would NEVER want hang out with him (just seems too annoying)." This guy is less annoying than Tim Ferriss but also less competent/smart than him, too.