Author Name: Shivam
Genre: Self-help.
We often complicate our lives by forgetting or overlooking the simple principles to live by. Shivam’s ‘How to unleash your true potential’ serves as the helpful road signs that guide us towards our destination. In other words, the book acts as a helpful Mentor or Coach you want by your side to give those little pointers, gentle reminders and boost your confidence to ensure that you stay on the track
to achieve what you wanted.
Excerpt:
Start listening to yourself
This is one thing that needs to be done at the earliest. Start listening to yourself. Why? Because you don’t. You listen to your friends, your parents or even that random guy who said you are not worthy. Stop that. They are not in charge of your life and they for sure cannot how to dictate your life. And there is no way you can stop them from saying. You can stop listening to them though and start listening to yourself more often. Because only you can tell what you want from your life. Develop a clear image of what you want and your job is already half done. Once you know where to go, all you have to do is steer your life.
Why we love How To Unleash Your True Potential
This is a self-help book that perfectly suits the Buzzfeed-reading social media-loving reader. Author Shivam understands the millennial readers well as he moves away from the business-like tone of self-help books and maintains a friendly relatable tone through all the thirty-five short chapters. The book therefore not just becomes easy to read but also makes it a lot more approachable.
Have we ever wondered how we can turn our fortunes around if we started thinking like kids? Or if we paid attention to the things that we do 20% of the time that made us successful at work or happy in life, we can achieve a lot more? How a simple act of complimenting someone can boost our own confidence? These are simple things that we tend to overlook most of the times in our lives. Author Shivam does a great job in reminding us that all we need to do is look inward to realize our true potential.
The tips offered over thirty-five simple and short chapters that make the readers draw inspiration from their own lives to achieve their goals. It is not necessary for the readers to start the book from page one and go about sequentially, as the book is written in such a way that you can pick any chapter to read.
You will love it if:
You love books like Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, Jack Canfield’s How to get from where you are to what you want to be, Jen Sincero’s You are a Badass, Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture, Sean Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Movies like Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting, Gabriele Muccino’s The Pursuit of Happyness, Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump, John Avildsen’s Rocky
If you would like to read the book, you can find it on Amazon or the Notion Press bookstore.