Success easily explained

Was hat Ihnen am allerbesten an The Success Principles(TM) - 10th Anniversary Edition gefallen?

I'm halfway through and cannot stop listen to this audiobook. Inspirational, very cool ideas and it makes me think about life and where I really want to be.

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The ideas, inspirations, very good questions, a lot of tips, very good questions, the process which during and after listening starts in myself. So this has an impact on how you think about your life and how you see it.

Hat Ihnen Danny Campbell an der Geschichte etwas vermittelt, was Sie vielleicht beim Selberlesen gar nicht bemerkt hätten?

The speaker is ok. I personally like his voice and how he intones important passages and important parts of the book.

Hat dieses Hörbuch Sie emotional stark bewegt? Mussten Sie laut z.B. lachen, weinen, zweifeln, etc.?

Yes, this book starts activating a process of thinking in your mindWhere do you want to be?What do you really want to do?Why are you here?....Very cool

Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?

I already bought the Kindle book and I have an old unread copy of the Success Principles paperback which I reactivated to also read about the content, better understand and deepen what I have heard.

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Principles for success

The book offers many helpful tips and its a good eye opener for starting up business or already established ones because it offers good advice that help improving many areas. I find the narrator'a voice pleasant to listen to and easy to follow. I feel the author promoted his other books and program too much and at times felt like a sales program for his previous work, but other than than , i think it was full of great information.

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Part 1 of a great book.

Part 1: very inspirational! Great concepts, helpful techniques, interesting stories that make it easy to remember.

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Auf jeden Fall anhören/lesen

Sehr spannend und inspirierend, habe sehr viel mitgenommen und gelernt. Kann es nur jedem empfehlen. Ein kleiner Abzug, gerade gegen Ende war es nur noch Werbung für weitere Seminare und Workshops, fand ich in der Menge zu viel. Nichts desto trotz ein sehr hilfreiches Buch. Wenn man nur die Hälfte umsetzt kommt man schon besser voran.

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Powerful Audiobook

Very powerful and helpful Audiobook, with step-by-step instructions to change your life. Interesting stories and easy to follow. Highly recommended.

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I´m surprised

He is famous, many people say he is great... but basically, this book is to sell himself, his business, his friends´ businesses, and to inflate his ego in "look how good I am".
From the almost 22 hours, I would say only 2 hours are kind of good and one can do something with it. All the rest, are just stories of other people and publicity.

And why only "kind of good"? because for him "success" means material wealth. I don´t remember if he said at the beginning that success means also other kind of wealth (it´s such a long listening, and so boring with so many "small stories", that I lost interest and track, and I can´t remember what he said many hours before), but if he said that, it was a small sentence at the beginning and having nothing to do with the rest of the book. He focussed in gaining material wealth.
Which, for most people that is what they want. But not for me. For me it was a terribly boring book and I couldn´t take anything positive out of it, other than the feeling of making the people to become more greedy.

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Good ideas, but too much rambling and advertising

Positive: The basic principles in the book offer good ideas on how to start organising your path towards a new business/career/dream aim. I listened to it twice, noted down the somewhat 15 ideas I found useful and left the rest out of my memory. Keep the core, delete the unnecessary "noise". I would say, try it.

Negative/Did not work for me:
I found the stories, used as examples, simply too many. And there was lots of unnecessary repetition, which after a certain point became tiring.
My opinion (not necessarily anybody else's): The book is very "U.S.American", follows the USA business "philosophy", too much enthusiasm, too much money-oriented and investing-oriented/how to make money without working, supposed to inspire you with others' inspirational stories; does not work for me. I kept what works for me and damped the rest.

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Interesting, but a little too much whoo-ing

Generally, I like this audiobook and it offers a lot of insight to improve yourself. Alone the advice to take full responsibility for your actions and their outcomes is a powerful one and can change your life when you truly follow that advice, rather than just saying "yeah alright, I take responsiblity - so what now?"

However, one major thing I really don't like about this book is the - in my opinion - completely eggerated use of examples and so-called inspirational stories. The book is full of these to the point where I just keep thinking "I GOT IT!!!! Can we please move on to the next success principle, please?!" (because after all, it is about these principles). If the principles were mentioned right at the start and then Canfield would talk about them in-depth, ok. But you always have to listen to just one more example, and not just for the success principles. "Many people think they're too old to learn something or pick up a hobby" - and then you get to hear 30 minutes about all sorts of people who ran marathons in their late sixties, earned college degrees in their late nineties, etc. Yes, this can be inspirational, some of these stories are really interesting - but I listen to this audiobook for the success principles. I don't want to listen to one of the success principles for three minutes and then listen to closely related examples for the next 40 minutes. For me, this is kind of ruining the book.

Also, some of the examples are just not completely true or profound enough. Canfield talks about the law of attraction. As proof that your thoughts can alter your physical reality, he mentions the example where you think about a friend only to receive a call from that friend shortly after. Going at it from the other perspective - that happens probably once every few months to once every two years. What about the numerous times where I think of a friend without receiving a call or text from them? Or when I receive a text from someone without having thought of them? Following Canfields logic, that should be proof that my thoughts cannot alter my physical reality.

Another one is Tim Ferriss' national Chinese martial arts championship: Certainly it takes a lot of work to pull something like that off in only a few months and I admire Tim Ferriss for his books, his podcast and his achievements. But Canfield made it sound like Ferriss became some sort of master within a short amount of time. In reality, he used some loopholes that state that you lose in case your opponent pushes you out of the fighting area a few times in a row. Also, he used some special dehydration-weightloss-strategy so that he weighed quite a few pounds less when his opponents were chosen for him. Then he re-gained that weight within a day or two so that by the time the fight started, he was technically in a different weight class (and he could use his weight to push his opponent out of the ring). Despite the discipline and training he certainly invested, he did not win the title due to his enormous fighting skills (as the book suggests), but because he fought ugly and used a few strategies and techniques that some might consider cheating. Now I'm thinking: If that story is exaggerated to make it sound a lot more inspirational than it actually is - what other stories are blown up like this?

Resume: The success principles are powerful principles that can definitely improve your life (even though I don't think that you read the book, follow the principles and then have seven companies and a net-worth of twenty million dollars one year later, though most of the examples sound like that [I know, if you think you can do it your brain will help you achieve that - still, it's certainly not the average success story of someone following these principles]). Generally, the book is interesting and worth listening to. However, I think that the examples and success stories are way too much and kind of take away the fun - at least for someone who wants to learn the principles and is out for "information in a nutshell" rather than a book full of inspiring stories that contain some information here and there.

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