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The Motivation Hacker (2013)

by Nick Winter(Favorite Author)

4.95 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Smashwords Edition

review 1: Good, fast read for $3. Like all motivation books, you got to be pretty motivated already to apply any of the techniques. But it is well written and the author grows on you, despite being a bit boastful sometimes - another staple of motivation books. If you are into time and task management tricks, you'll enjoy it. I wished there was an appendix with ready to apply recipes of the "motivation hacks".
review 2: The author congratulates himself on hacking his motivation to finish the book in 3 months. Well, the book turned out to be nothing but a hack!The book lacks structure. Anecdotes and autobiography are mixed in a way that makes it very difficult to get the main point.There's not much substance either. Some of the stories take up whole chapters and talk about... more the things the author set to achieve. I don't feel that adds much value. The references to existing ideas and literature are shallow (e.g. popular concepts from Daniel Kahneman's work).Finally, I feel that's author's context is alienating to many of potential readers. He's off to a great start by being fully independent from employment and having full commandment of his time. I think that's great but it makes you wonder whether the advice would work for anyone who does not presently have such luxury.The book needs more research, stories from other people, clearer structure. less

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