Book Review - Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex by Aubrey Marcus

Years ago I had read a couple of books that discussed expert achievement and the 10,000 hour rule to achieve greatness. I was really impressed with the ideas. I didn't realize the authors were misquoting and misrepresenting the research.

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex by Aubrey Marcus is a nonfiction book that discusses several simple ways one can improve one's life in several areas. It is available as an eBook, Audiobook, and those paper things your grandparents used to read.

The Good

Presentation. This book is really well written in a very conversational style that sounds like your buddy sharing information with you over dinner.

Simple. The ideas the author presents are simple enough that most people will be able to implement most of them.

Comprehensive. The author presents ideas that cover a wide range of areas that are important for most people's lives and could use improvement.

The Bad

Recommends Drugs. While I understand the author's arguments for using drugs (tobacco, marijuana, etc.), there are healthier and safer alternatives that are just as effective if not more so.

What I Would Like to Have Seen

While I agree with most of the ideas the author presents, it would have been nice if the author had backed up all his claims with research and not just anecdotal evidence.

Overall

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex by Aubrey Marcus is a nonfiction book that discusses several simple ways one can improve one's life in several areas. This book is really well written in a very conversational style that sounds like your buddy sharing information with you over dinner. The ideas the author presents are simple enough that most people will be able to implement most of them. The author presents ideas that cover a wide range of areas that are important for most people's lives and could use improvement. I did not agree with his views on using drugs. While I understand the author's arguments for using drugs (tobacco, marijuana, etc.), there are healthier and safer alternatives that are just as effective if not more so. While I agree with most of the ideas the author presents, it would have been nice if he had backed up all his claims with research and not just anecdotal evidence. I highly recommend this book and give it 4.5 out of 5 eReaders.