The 5AM Club- Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. by Robin Sharma
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Web ID: 16836150generic business book
This book follows the cookie cutter layout of most business books. It will be easier to accomplish you goals if you wake up early and do them before going to work. You do not need to read 200 pages of fluff for that single kernel of truth
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Great Read
Reading this book was a game changer for me. After each chapter I’d find myself telling my wife what I just learned and started implementing what I learned from the book.
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Written as a novel, but it falls flat
I have heard Robin Sharma's 5 am club messaging through other platforms for years prior to this publication. The messaging is consistent with his other avenues. Although instead of it being a straightforward read about the practice of getting up at 5 am and how to structure an outstanding day the author takes a different approach and makes the book into a novel. Robin's teachings may be excellent, but I would not consider this as a good fiction book. The book identifies various characters which will grow and develop over time, but the way the book is written it across as dropping too many consecutive wisdom bites or mouthfuls while trying to convey to the reader the characters are "learning and enthused" in the wisdom nuggets. I find it problematic while so many lessons are simply stated outright, it is a mental distraction to have to read what the characters feel and are thinking in a type of very forced and narrow conversation to illustrate the point the author is making. This continues throughout the book. After reading the book I realize that if I the story telling the author used worked the story and the intending message/learning would be easy to come to mind. This is not true for me. It isn't as easy to go back to a chapter and read up on what the key lessons are, you have to go back through the story otherwise you can miss your points, you can't just go back and reference the information as easily. Sure, there are tables and diagrams, but the explanations are written in the novel character format. Robin isn't really that flexible on his daily protocols which I have no doubt work for him, but one of them is recommending everyone eat within an 8 hour time frame (which yes there is data on why this is good) isn't necessarily practical for those of us who work 8 hours and prefer to eat breakfast and dinner at home. I think Robin just slaps down his protocols like he normally does on his other learning mediums, but creating a story as to how to make other things possible or being flexible and at least appear to be understanding of what an average person's life is and adapting that would be far more valuable as a story than the novel that he tried to write.
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