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This hidden gem is the only self-help book you actually need
Eight years before Atomic Habits, there was a book you’ve likely never heard of that tread a lot of the same ground in a deeply effective way.
It’s one of my favourite self improvement books of all time, and the information contained within is probably all you actually need to make massive gains in every aspect of your life.
The self-help industy is saturated with ideas that I think really over-complicate the chase for success.
No, “The Secret” isn’t to wish for cheques to show up in the mail and then just sit on your butt every day (the author wrote his book in the aftermath of Rhonda Byrne’s wishful tome).
Getting up at 5 a.m. every day and taking cold showers won’t make you a millionaire.
You’re actually going to have to work.
The book I’m referring to, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy, cuts through all the crap and gets down to the real “secret” to massive success: small actions taken daily over a long period of time.
As he aptly puts it: success is not doing 5,000 things. It’s doing half a dozen things really well, 5,000 times.
He explains how success is slow, arduous and sometimes boring. It takes discipline and commitment.
I regret to inform you there is no shortcut.
