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Review of How To Be Successful
[Following is a volunteer review of "How To Be Successful" by M. Curtis McCoy.]
While at the ripe age of 27, this indefatigable entrepreneur already owned a string of lucrative businesses that could make the average Joe’s face green with envy. But not until he lost everything he had, did he realized there was no turning back from the clutches of a dreaded disease.
In How To Be Successful by M. Curtis McCoy, the author regaled to the readers his raucous journey on how he defiantly staged a remarkable comeback to life as he gradually rebuilt his career from utter ruin. The book opens with how the author’s health, financial wealth, and self-esteem all went down the sinkhole of degradation. His stupefying nightmare began when he started to suffer from daily bouts of grand mal seizures in 2010, as a result of progressive brain cancer. To make matters worse, the doctors who made the untactful diagnosis of his condition, advised him that he only got three months to live.
Desperate for a cure, the author was then taken on a family sabbatical in Tijuana, Mexico, where his loved ones duly searched for alternative cures for his disease. But as luck would have it, it was in that desolate region where he finally forged a renewed sense of spirit that had miraculously ended his horrendous ordeal with cancer. McCoy then focuses the rest of his book on a motivational blog he created in 2015 wherein he fervently contacted business gurus, exceptional people, and seasoned entrepreneurs to gain valuable insight. That ultimately led to the creation of this book.
The author then illuminated practical ways on how to achieve success in whatever life endeavors. Ticking off with the concept of delaying/postponing self-gratification that builds self-control and patience in oneself. The persistent practice of this procedural refocuses one’s efforts in targeting long-term goals that reward higher dividends, in contrast to short-term goals that only offer minor compensation/benefits.
The book then goes on to explain McCoy’s idea about how to become an overnight sensation. According to the author, successful ventures are solidly built from the ground up, back up by years of painstaking hard work and discipline. That building a lucrative business entails tremendous personal sacrifices that fall under the following categories: damaged relationships, low remuneration, punishing work hours/routines, and a huge amount of collateral. The author then concludes with an engaging feature about the illustrious “father” of the MP3 Player, Nathan Schulhof, whose vision of success, requires not having to deal with too many earthly possessions as being detrimental from his peace of mind; in which the latter puts a high premium over trivial matters.
I love the author’s interview about Schulhof’s supposedly ingenious approach to cerebration whom he fondly coined as, “The Spock Technique.” The process wherein the famous inventor blots out, like the Vulcan Spock, (a reference to a fictional character in the television show, Star Trek) all conflicting sources of emotions streaming from his mind to formulate viable solutions to existing problems at hand. However, there was another segment of an interview that made no considerable sense to me. That was the part when the author ask to describe a character flaw unique to this particular person whom he was interviewing at the time. And to whom the latter confidently replied that “most of the time”, he was always right when making important decisions in his life. As far as I’m concerned, I will let the readers decide for themselves the incongruous veracity of that particular remark.
For the aforementioned reason above, I would rate this book three out of four stars, but also, partly due to two moribund coupling of profanities, and a few flecks of punctuation errors I had glimpsed meaning, this book is not professionally edited. However, I do recommend this book to everyone especially to those people who are virtually trapped in making difficult career choices. As this book also implies; every wishy-washy indecision made in one’s life eventually creates a potent/major roadblock to success.
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How To Be Successful
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While at the ripe age of 27, this indefatigable entrepreneur already owned a string of lucrative businesses that could make the average Joe’s face green with envy. But not until he lost everything he had, did he realized there was no turning back from the clutches of a dreaded disease.
In How To Be Successful by M. Curtis McCoy, the author regaled to the readers his raucous journey on how he defiantly staged a remarkable comeback to life as he gradually rebuilt his career from utter ruin. The book opens with how the author’s health, financial wealth, and self-esteem all went down the sinkhole of degradation. His stupefying nightmare began when he started to suffer from daily bouts of grand mal seizures in 2010, as a result of progressive brain cancer. To make matters worse, the doctors who made the untactful diagnosis of his condition, advised him that he only got three months to live.
Desperate for a cure, the author was then taken on a family sabbatical in Tijuana, Mexico, where his loved ones duly searched for alternative cures for his disease. But as luck would have it, it was in that desolate region where he finally forged a renewed sense of spirit that had miraculously ended his horrendous ordeal with cancer. McCoy then focuses the rest of his book on a motivational blog he created in 2015 wherein he fervently contacted business gurus, exceptional people, and seasoned entrepreneurs to gain valuable insight. That ultimately led to the creation of this book.
The author then illuminated practical ways on how to achieve success in whatever life endeavors. Ticking off with the concept of delaying/postponing self-gratification that builds self-control and patience in oneself. The persistent practice of this procedural refocuses one’s efforts in targeting long-term goals that reward higher dividends, in contrast to short-term goals that only offer minor compensation/benefits.
The book then goes on to explain McCoy’s idea about how to become an overnight sensation. According to the author, successful ventures are solidly built from the ground up, back up by years of painstaking hard work and discipline. That building a lucrative business entails tremendous personal sacrifices that fall under the following categories: damaged relationships, low remuneration, punishing work hours/routines, and a huge amount of collateral. The author then concludes with an engaging feature about the illustrious “father” of the MP3 Player, Nathan Schulhof, whose vision of success, requires not having to deal with too many earthly possessions as being detrimental from his peace of mind; in which the latter puts a high premium over trivial matters.
I love the author’s interview about Schulhof’s supposedly ingenious approach to cerebration whom he fondly coined as, “The Spock Technique.” The process wherein the famous inventor blots out, like the Vulcan Spock, (a reference to a fictional character in the television show, Star Trek) all conflicting sources of emotions streaming from his mind to formulate viable solutions to existing problems at hand. However, there was another segment of an interview that made no considerable sense to me. That was the part when the author ask to describe a character flaw unique to this particular person whom he was interviewing at the time. And to whom the latter confidently replied that “most of the time”, he was always right when making important decisions in his life. As far as I’m concerned, I will let the readers decide for themselves the incongruous veracity of that particular remark.
For the aforementioned reason above, I would rate this book three out of four stars, but also, partly due to two moribund coupling of profanities, and a few flecks of punctuation errors I had glimpsed meaning, this book is not professionally edited. However, I do recommend this book to everyone especially to those people who are virtually trapped in making difficult career choices. As this book also implies; every wishy-washy indecision made in one’s life eventually creates a potent/major roadblock to success.
******
How To Be Successful
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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