Review by GiftAbbie -- How To Be Successful

[Gift Olubankole]

[Following is a volunteer review of "How To Be Successful" by M. Curtis McCoy.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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As individuals who are goal-driven and has an achiever mindset, we tend to want to be successful in life. The term success on its own is interpreted differently by each individual based on what they see fit or what best relates to them. Some people want to be rich, wealthy, famous, well to do, and many other terms we might call what we hope to achieve.

How to be Successful by M. Curtis McCoy as the name implies, takes one through a part of knowing how to be successful. It entails useful tips and advisable measures to take up in your plan or road to success. It also contains interviews with various great personnel who are now big-time entrepreneurs and have found themselves successful. Most of them lay relatable experiences in which you would able to relate with and understand what they went through and how they push their selves to become the better them.

The author of this book, M. Curtis McCoy was diagnosed with Type- 1 diabetic at 27 months old, in which during this period he had a stunted growth for two years, he considered himself not a natural at everything. He, therefore, had to push himself to become better and to do better than those who were natural at things like sports.

McCoy is also a brain cancer survivor, he was diagnosed with malignant glioblastoma, where he had to struggle with this significant health hurdle in addition to diabetics. At the time of the brain cancer diagnosis, he was given 90 days to live by the doctors. This diagnosis sent him to Tijuana Mexico, where he went to be treated. During this challenging period in McCoy’s life, he started his company Best Cellular instead of giving up to cancer, with help from his mother he started his own company.

This book gives a practical example of being successful, stories from persons are what someone might need to push themself to do great things. How to be Successful is a self-motivational help book, it is a practical reality guide filled with conversations with great persons to help you learn from them to better actualize your dream. As individuals, we are different, so we learn from others and in turn, use our own uniqueness to form something beautiful.

I admire a lot about How to be Successful it opened my eyes to things I probably would not have taken note of, it enables me to ensure to calculate risks before making decisions. Also, it gives great tips on meeting new people, how to approach them, suggestions on what and what not to do. One crucial point is you learn to teach others how to treat you civilly with no cause for fights or arguments. There is nothing I would say I dislike about the book.

I believe this book would be suitable for individuals who aspire to be leaders in their various fields and persons who are entrepreneurs and those who aspire to be one. However, individuals who do not want to hear about Christianity might not want to read this book due to references to God in the life of Curtis and other speakers.

There are no apparent errors in the book as it is well-edited, my expectations of the book were met, and I absolutely had fun reading this book. I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. I rate it as such because it is adequately edited and gives excellent knowledge about life as a successful person.

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[Shahina C A]

I read this book and loved it. I like your review too.

[Gift Olubankole]

I read this book and loved it. I like your review too.

Thank you so much! Yes it is definitely a lovely book. It thought me a lot and I hope you learnt from the book as I did.