A good book. Easy to read and quite well structured. Good arguments, including lots of examples and studies. I never doubted good work weights more than talent, and those who work hard and wisely archieve good results. This book shows it scientifically. Even so there are a couple of things that brought me disappointment.
It is more an inspirational book rather than a practical one. In my opinion this material could have been more concise or maybe separating the theory, examples and study cases and the practical part with concrete suggestions, so the reader could choose the order or what to read.
I have to say I had another expectation before reading. As I searched for practical methods and advice and not for inspiration, maybe wouldnt, lost much by just listening to an audio compilation and some explanations and just apply the steps instead of reading it. I would like to see some application of the findings in the authors daily life, how the findings influenced it; as well as some exercises to be practiced with interest for a better feeling of the deliberate practice regarding a set of abilities, useful or interesting for the majority of people; a guideline regarding some specific subject or common beliefs that are not true to be discovered with the method. This would have given to the book a more interactive approache, one closer to the promoted deliberate exercise, and ideally would have created some new cognitive skills, representations.
Otherwise, the steps, principles and rules are well described and the book quite interesting to read.
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