Book Review: The 6 Habits Of Growth
- Structure of the audiobook
- 5-hour long motivation speech
- Would I recommend this book?
- Is this book a keeper?
| Title: | The 6 Habits Of Growth |
|---|---|
| Author: | Brendon Burchard |
| Published: | 2022 |
| My rating: |   |
In this Audible exclusive audiobook, high-performance coach Brendon Burchard talks about 6 habits for growth. But these habits are not actual habits, they are areas in life you should improve to have a better life.
Concepts you should work on. He then lists hundreds of things you can do, inserting self-promotional stories, jumping from one thing to another, but not providing any deeper or specific advice.
Every 5 seconds he gives you a new thing to do, every 5 seconds you get a new tip on what activity to do, but never goes into specifics what to do, how to build each specific habit, what to avoid or how he developed it.
He gives only generic advice lacking actual steps and authenticity, the same advice you have heard and read 100 times before, and in many cases is common sense. Like “Find motivation”. Duh.
Not even his stories are interesting. He is just rambling about things vaguely related to the topics. There is no substance. These stories are not sparking any ideas of giving explanations on what to do.
Stories should be educational, inspirational or entertaining, but his main story was “My girlfriend cheated on me. I was broke and broken, now I am neither”. Good for you.
Structure of the audiobook
The audiobook is divided into six chapters following his six areas, “habits” as he calls them - motivation, focus, confidence, energy, purpose and leadership.
But that’s where the structure ends. The audiobook wasn’t scripted (nor was it an actual book). Nothing was written down or prepared, it is just a recording of somebody talking from top of their head.
He even admits it. No preparation or review of the content, he just wrote down a few notes and started talking about them.
And as you can imagine, the book is all over the place. He jumps from one thing to another, talking about his success, promoting his app etc. It feels more like a BuzzFeed article, 100 things that will help you grow.
5-hour long motivation speech
It feels like scrolling through a gallery of motivational posters. It feels like over stretched motivational speech. It feels like the kind of the book the constant procrastinating self-development enthusiasts listen to.
Something that makes you feel great about yourself, but never actually forces you to do something with your life. Something you would listen to for 15 minutes a day every morning to feel better about yourself.
Those people don’t get up and do something hard to improve their life in order to feel better about themselves; they already feel great after getting the dopamine from listening to the book and that is enough to keep them satisfied.
Not something for anybody who is serious about bettering themselves and wants to actually improve something specific in their life.
Or did our standards for quality and added value fall so low? Is anything pushing people’s dopamine, getting them excited, even if it is common sense, common knowledge? Did we dumb down so far?
Would I recommend this book?
If you never did anything to better your life, you are a blank slate, but you are planning to do a deep dive into each habit and activity, then ok. Maybe.
Because today you have so much free information online, you can find specific and well-structured information about any challenge you want to overcome or any habit you want to build.
You will be better off just picking one thing to work on, researching it and start doing something and improving step by step. You can’t build hundred habits at the same time anyway,
Is this book a keeper?
No. And if you want to keep it to get yourself motivated, pump yourself up every morning before you get to your job, you need to rethink your whole approach to personal development.
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