Wayward Reviews

The first book I have finished this side of 2023 and to my own surprise it is a self-help book, I have lightly been watching this author through other mediums – so when I saw his book in the bookstore, I thought, why not?

Book Synopsis

Book Details

Pages: 251

Genre: Self Help

Publisher: Yellow Kite

Format: Hardback

We are losing ourselves. We’re chasing the wrong things, asking the wrong questions, and polluting our minds. It’s time to stop, it’s time to resist and it’s time to rethink the fundamental social blueprint that our lives are built upon.

‘As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a ‘Happy Sexy Millionaire’ by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything I set out to, I learnt that I was wrong about almost everything… The world had lied to me. It lied to me about how you attain fulfilment, love and success, why those things matter, and what those words actually mean.

In this book, I’ll dismantle the most popular, unaddressed lies about happiness that we’ve been led to believe. I’ll expose the source of these lies, examine the incentives that fuel them and replace them with a practical set of scientifically proven and unconventional ideas that will help you to live a truly fulfilled life, a life full of the love you seek and the success you deserve.

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Review

* Non-Spoiler Review*

I am still a little shocked that this is my first book to finish in 2023, Steven Bartlett is a young entrepreneur who was one of the founders of Social Chain. I didn’t know much about the company itself but rather that he is on Dragon’s Den UK and posts Youtube and podcast content.

This memoir/self-help book gives you a glimpse into how Bartlett got to where he is today, the good, the bad and the concerning situations he found himself in. In the world of self-help books, it provided me with food for thought on the attitude I have towards things – while showing that what we consider success might not be an actual success in the end.

It’s probably one of the best self-help books I have read in years, direct, clear, reflective and practical for me as a reader. I would recommend this for readers who want a nonsense read about finding what works for you.

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Book Rating: 5/5