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2.5 stars.
I read this book in mostly one sitting, and ironically fell asleep in the process. (My sleep/wake schedule's been a lot better this semester, but going to bed early is really hard when you live in a college dorm with five suitemates, as is having a peaceful antisocial morning.)
There's some good, concrete advice, in this book, but the general attitude kind of irked me. It seemed really self-congratulatory, at the cost of others: "You've taken the first step to improve your life! That makes you better than the 'mediocre majority' of the world's population!" There was also a no-excuses mentality that I can't help but view as privileged; while to some degree it's probably true, it doesn't explore the different external factors that might genuinely hinder someone's progress, instead going through the author's personal tragedies. Actually - a lot of the book depends on anecdotes and "personal" experimentation on the author's part, rather than scientific citation/rationale, which doesn't work for me. Several points are truncated in favor of a web link or another "self-help" book to read; others are diminished to an acronym that is never referenced again (RMS: Rearview Mirror Syndrome; NYR: New Year's Resolutions; neither appears more than once or twice outside of its dedicated section). Finally, the title itself is misleading - the author himself acknowledges that depending on your biological rhythms, you can change the timeline of the Miracle Morning, even making it an afternoon/evening process.
On the other hand, it's a very brief read, which I appreciated; it can be summed up in a few concrete bullet points, so you don't have to reread the book to pick out meaning (though the book itself encourages doing so with particularly helpful books, a category which I clearly don't place it in). I don't regret having read the book and do plan to add aspects of SAVERS into my morning routine that aren't already there. (Though, to be quite honest, none of them are inherently revolutionary, nor is the idea of combining them all into a "Miracle Morning," and I can probably identify them all in some form in my existing routine.)
I read this book in mostly one sitting, and ironically fell asleep in the process. (My sleep/wake schedule's been a lot better this semester, but going to bed early is really hard when you live in a college dorm with five suitemates, as is having a peaceful antisocial morning.)
There's some good, concrete advice, in this book, but the general attitude kind of irked me. It seemed really self-congratulatory, at the cost of others: "You've taken the first step to improve your life! That makes you better than the 'mediocre majority' of the world's population!" There was also a no-excuses mentality that I can't help but view as privileged; while to some degree it's probably true, it doesn't explore the different external factors that might genuinely hinder someone's progress, instead going through the author's personal tragedies. Actually - a lot of the book depends on anecdotes and "personal" experimentation on the author's part, rather than scientific citation/rationale, which doesn't work for me. Several points are truncated in favor of a web link or another "self-help" book to read; others are diminished to an acronym that is never referenced again (RMS: Rearview Mirror Syndrome; NYR: New Year's Resolutions; neither appears more than once or twice outside of its dedicated section). Finally, the title itself is misleading - the author himself acknowledges that depending on your biological rhythms, you can change the timeline of the Miracle Morning, even making it an afternoon/evening process.
On the other hand, it's a very brief read, which I appreciated; it can be summed up in a few concrete bullet points, so you don't have to reread the book to pick out meaning (though the book itself encourages doing so with particularly helpful books, a category which I clearly don't place it in). I don't regret having read the book and do plan to add aspects of SAVERS into my morning routine that aren't already there. (Though, to be quite honest, none of them are inherently revolutionary, nor is the idea of combining them all into a "Miracle Morning," and I can probably identify them all in some form in my existing routine.)