The title of the book is misleading. I expected self help format if not a scientific bend study on how people 'do' things. Instead is a loose set of interviews with 36 diverse individuals who are considered successful. The varied people did expand my thinking though each person is given 10 pages or so, amounting to only a surface level treatment of their story. Not bad too bad in the end but lacks depth. Lots of interesting careers and lives, chronicled in the form of top ten advice - everyone from a Russian opera singer to best-selling authors, with lots of cool people in between. I think my favorite chapter was George Clinton talking about funk. His advice on enjoying the pursuit of happiness rocked my world view a little bit. The chapter with Erin Gruwell teaching a class of kids where some of them had actually been shot was heartbreaking and inspiring; I actually had tears in my eyes by the time I was done reading it. Overall, I'm probably not going to use a lot of the advice in this book but it was cool to hear how this group of undoubtedly successful people do what they do.
fun book. i took notes on about 7 chapters and would recommend it for a quick read.
—ram
Great quotes from: Martina Navratilova, Phillippe Petit, Richard Restak.
—kat90
Just wish it was so easy to do something and be success at it!
—lau
There are some really weird careers out there :p
—jess
10 or 12 chapters, quick read.
—pusakal
