Some really good information buried amongst an awful lot of obvious things and unnecessary personal stories

I rarely leave a negative review because I’m quite sure that it’s painful for the author. So I feel a bit bad about this but I feel is necessary to say that this book is very overblown.

I was really taken with the title. And the audiobook sample focussed on hammering that nail home. So far, so good.

Sadly, I found the actual book pretty much unlistenable.

I’ve listened as far as chapter 6 pretty much only because I paid £9 and was thinking that it surely must get better.

But I can’t deal with any more of this book or this author.

I’m sure the author is a nice, decent and genuinely wealthy guy. The trouble is that I somehow find his personal style unbearable.

Maybe I’m an English snob. Well I definitely am an English snob. But there is something about the focus of a certain type of American self-help book that Simultaneously attracts and repels me.

Confidence is good. I know mindset matters. I even know that mine needs to be shifted. But that job won’t be accomplished by somebody going on about their own personal story and their generalised beliefs about the universe. I even skipped the chapter on “Spirituality” but I still couldn’t avoid the references to “The Secret” in the following chapter, which always makes me wince and start backing away slowly from the speaker.

There are some really useful Nuggets based on the author’s expertise in Real Estate investing which it’s very clear he knows very large amounts from experience about. And those are new to me and interesting and I find enjoyable. Hence the 3 stars.

Sadly I had the feeling that he could have told me a ton of useful and engaging stuff that would have held my attention. But I guess he was trying to grossly simplify everything nag for a mass and -frankly - obviously pretty low-level audience.

I just don’t think I’m the target audience for this.

There is masses of a cliché personal story. So the author also was bad at school and dyslexic. You have my sympathy but I know so many dyslexic entrepreneurs at this point that it’s not anything new to me. It’s almost a pre-requisite for success. I’ve heard or read plenty such stories by now. This is joy new and beyond a certain point, it’s really not helpful.

Somehow every entrepreneur who has committed their life story to any form of book bangs on about this kind of story these days if it isn’t learning difficulties it’s poverty. It must be an American obsession with the rags to riches cliche. Or they’ve read about the “hero’s journey” narrative and are ham fisted in their narrative strategy.

Either way I just can’t deal with it in this amount.

I am not poor or educationally challenged, I’m just not rich yet and I’m wanting to learn how to get there.

Sadly the information he did give outside of real estate specifics was a like a rehashed, rewarmed and watered down version of Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

I guess if you haven’t read Rich Dad, Poor Dad-or anything like it, - then this might still be news to you.

But as somebody who has consumed many business books for decades, many written by far better thinkers and authors, I found this stuff was just old hat.

There is also something about being British - I just can’t deal with this much American-style navel gazing either.

I do think there is one general point for any self-help authors to note here: I bought that book to help me. I don’t really want to hear about you any more than is relevant to helping me. By going on about yourself to this huge extent, you are just alienating me. I don’t think I’m the only person who is going to have this reaction to this book.

But hey all the people giving five stars clearly love it. I guess I’m the end this is just not intended for people like me. If you have also read plenty of decent business books, I would save your money and time.

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