Hustle: The Power to Charge your Life with Money, Meaning and Momentum

Hustle by Neil Patel
Genres: Nonfiction

Published: September, 2016 by Rodale Books

Think for a moment. When you read the word, ‘Hustle’, what does it mean to you? How does your brain process it? Have you ever thought that a word such as Hustle posses power over your heart, mind and habits? These are the questions I’d want you to think about before going in-depth into this book. To answer the questions, this book describes

Hustling is about shaking things up, letting go of old patterns that suck the life out of us and beginning anew.

To break out monotony of 9 to 5 lifestyle step by step and focusing on reality at the same time, you’d need tools for that. Hustle: The Power to Charge your Life with Money, Meaning and Momentum by Neil Pater, Patick Vlaskovitz and Jonas Koffler provide just that in this latest title. These tools will make you realise the work you enjoy and gain the confidence and motivate yourself. The book is divided in three main sections:

• The Heart
• The Head
• The Habits

Each section demonstrate how to work on your dreams, to get started and prepare for mistakes and risks that comes in the journey and how to spot opportunities to create your own luck. When I came across these section I could relate them to Logos, Ethos and Pathos (knowledge, values and passion) from some ancient text. It’s not a new concept and has been around a long time but it’s a concept we often forget to remind ourselves as we dwell into the monolithic labyrinth of 9 to 5.

This book is a great reminder of that. It combines all three sections aforementioned and help the reader understand how they work together.

Heart

Focus in this section is on readers valuing their own dreams. It’s how the book starts by pointing out some concepts like talent perception, Lake Wobegon effect and altering your own ego. I love the references it provide based on scientific methods to describe their (co-authors) point of view of the world and how it works, more, how you gain momentum in your life without damaging it.

Head

The purpose of this section is to give purpose to the whole book and the point of view of hustling. Authors clearly states that the value of work outweigh the reason you do it. The reward only comes by doing the work.

Habit

The real benefit from reading the last two sections, comes after reading this one. This section is designed for you to take action and implement your own hustle. There is a lot of depth in this section since it is divided further into smaller sections but that won’t consume your time much.

Overall I think the book has a great value to offer. The narrative voice has a medium pace which provides it a great start and the reader will be engaged in matter of no time. There is a lot to think and reflect along with it. This book won’t define your life but if you decide to read it you will definitely reflect back in a better standard. The book is more about the concept of Logos, Ethos and Pathos I discussed earlier and should be regarded in that way rather than what the cover of the book might signify on earlier impression as it certainly does not do justice to this book.

4 out of 5

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