Book Review - Who Will Cry When You Die (Robin Sharma)

Who Will Cry When You Die (Robin Sharma) is a good book to read when you are traveling on public transport. Inside the book, it contains snippets that allow you to improve your lives, living a more fulfilling life.

What strikes me is the title of this book. For many book lovers of self-help books, you would realize that this title have some striking resemblance of certain content in Stephen Covey's 7th Habit of Highly Effective People. In the 7th Habit book, Stephen Covey ask us to imagine what our ideal funeral would be, what type of speech would our family members make, what is the strength of relationship we share with those making a speech in your ideal funeral. So when I saw this book, I immediately bought it off the shelves without consideration for the price. Haha! Impulse buying.

Anyway, I have no regret buying the book. Inside the book, it contains many short stories or actionable (and low costs) items where we can immediately implement it in our life and see immediate results.

I would recommend readers to buy the book and carry with it if you are taking the public transport, as all Singaporeans would know how long we have to wait for our public transport.

I give it 4 stars out of 5 for the many actionable items inside that can improve our lives. So what is your ideal funeral and Who will cry when you die?

Book Review - The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a very controversial book. It have created strong believers and skeptics among readers of this book. The reason is the content of the book cannot be proven using scientific methods. So what is the content that makes it so controversial?

The main content of this book is.... The Law of Attraction. Readers who are familiar with self-help literature would have come across this law. The gist of this law is well summarised by this sentence, "Think Positive, Get Positive." I believe I heard some ooohs and some aaaahs after you have read till here. So what is different about this book compared to other Think Positive book? Well, in this book, the author Rhonda Byrne who have gone through a rough patch in life, have gathered other believers of Law of Attraction, to show you how to apply it in life and at work.

Because of the content of this book and the fact that even skeptics have read the book, with some writing books to dispute it, it has become a great conversation starter and fodder for much thoughts. You know the book is popular when it has been translated to Chinese, Spanish and other languages.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars. Definitely a good read and for great conversation starter.



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