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Training Camp: What The Best Do Better Than Everyone Else (2009)

by Jon Gordon(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0470462086 (ISBN13: 9780470462089)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

John Wiley & Sons

review 1: I didn't really get anything new from this book. What it does have going for it is that it's a relatively quick read and if you have not read a lot on the topic then there are some good takeaways to be had. Although I am not a football fan, the football setting did work well to convey the message.The reason I gave it such a low rating is that towards the end of the book it turned into a hard sell on religion and how God is the answer. I'm open to any point of view, but this was very much unexpected and it was over the top.
review 2: If you have ever read anything written by Jon Gordon, you know that he often writes in fables. Training Camp is no exception and the first book that I am recommending to my children. Both of my boys are football players and this ... morebook is a great playbook for life.A personal development book disguised as a fiction tale of Martin Jones, a young football player attempting to be drafted by an NFL team in training camp. When what could be disaster strikes and an injury sidelines him, he’s stressed, scared and unsure of what to do next. When the team trainer and a coach taken him under their wing and begin to train his mind first, he learns that to be the “Best”, he has a lot more to learn off the field. What he learns from Coach Ken are the eleven lessons that he passes on to players so that they can be successful on and off the field, forever.I have read several personal development books over the years and there is always something new to take in. This one is no different. Most of the “lessons” that Martin learns are things I have heard and learned from other book, some of it quotes from the very books I’ve read (like one from Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life) but because it’s in a fable, it’s a lesson that you see applied and is, as a result, easy to apply to your own life and remember.Lessons like “The Best know what they truly want” or “The Best make everyone around them better.” The one thing that Training Camp had that most personal development books don’t was a very poignant, was it’s attention to a “greater power than themselves.” There is a very obvious and appreciated spiritual aspect to Training Camp that is often ignored or blatantly avoided in best-selling personal development books. It was nice to see one embrace religion in an open, unobtrusive way.The one thing worth noting is that the language and style of the book is very basic (and not always grammatically correct). It’s written at a middle school grade level (in my opinion) which makes it a very quick and easy read. I easy breezed through most of it while waiting to be called for jury duty in only a couple of hours. But, because of this, I feel its something that pre-teens and teens, boys specifically, would be willing to read. Too many personal development books are dry and boring so the lessons our children need to learn early are tossed aside. This book makes it easy for kids to learn the lessons and be entertained. I would definitely recommend this book for pre-teens, teens (boys especially since they are the least likely to read) and adults. For the price, you can’t beat it. less

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