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The great encouragement!

Reviewed: 10-01-24

The possibilities for a life of joy and fulfillment now and in the future. Yes!

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Simple and clear to understand.

Reviewed: 01-16-24

I sincerely appreciated this book. The simplicity clarity and firsthand knowledge is so helpful. I am grateful the author decided to share it with the world.

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A must listen!

Reviewed: 09-21-23

The world will be better because of this book! Thank you Seth Goodin for voicing what I believe abd giving me a tool to give my venture partner’s, friends and family!

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Just what I needed to hear!

Reviewed: 12-11-22

Thank you to Phil Knight for sharing his journey, adventure, experiences, and insight! Fantastic book! Epic journey. Wonderful inspiration and countless warnings. Every entrepreneur should read or listen to this book! Grateful I did!

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Somewhat frustrating, but worth reading

Reviewed: 06-25-19

I loved the concept of this book and appreciate all of the research that went into it. There appeared to to be no effort to understand how women get into flow vs. men. Nearly all of the studies were entirely groups of men. From my experience we women get into flow very, very differently and there seems to be no thought about this. Otherwise was a great book about men getting into flow and the power and importance of flow in general.

The open denial to the absolute necessity for flow in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics lost some of the credibility for me in this book right out of the gate. Yes, I understand that adding another 360 or 720 to a snowboarding trick is super dramatic and amazing. But, compare the run in and the height that trick has to run vs. a gymnast on a hard 4" wide balance beam. I would say another 1/2 twist on a balance beam in 20 years is every bit as hard and requires just as much flow as the additional 720 on a snowboard off a jump.

I was a gymnast and rhythmic gymnast for 17 years and we were constantly in flow. I have also jumped on snowboards and skis. In artistic gymnastics we would have died if we were not in flow. The one day I was out of flow doing a simple front flip on the beam. I missed the landing, slipped down the side of the beam, got a bone chip and a concussion from the beam next to me.

That was the last nudge I needed to switch over to rhythmic gymnastics, which turned out to be even harder and require constant flow. Watch rhythmic gymnastics some time. Those gymnasts are in flow the entire 1.5 minutes or everything goes wrong. Watch a group rhythmic gymnastics (6 competing together in sync) event and tell me they are not in flow.

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Mostly great

Reviewed: 06-25-19

It was mostly great.

However, the repeated idea that Burning Man is a Silicon Valley event took away a great deal from the book for me. While, many in Silicon Valley have taken to Burning Man and it has now become very commercialized by the fact that it has become a SV perceived requirement for corporate resumes (further promoted it this book), Burning Man was not started that way. Most of the people I know, who have been going from the beginning or went for a very long time (including me), have gradually stopped going since the SV take over of the event.

So, this representation of the event was disappointing for me. I loved Kolter/Diamandis' books Abundance and BOLD.

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