The Compound Effect; A Book Review

THE BOOK REVIEW.

Book Title: The Compound Effect; Jump-start your income, your life, your success.

Author: Darren Hardy.

Year of Publication: 2010.

Reviewed by: Manzi Mugisha Prince.

Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect cannot be termed as just a self-help book. It is more than that. The book starts off with the author not only challenging how you have been living your life but also what is stopping you from achieving or pushing to the maximum limit. He talks about how all of us often have information on the right things to do but fail to act upon it. And even when we act upon it, we lack the consistency to help us maintain that positive path we have decided to take. In the second chapter, he informs us that our life is a matter of choices. We are where we are because of the choices we made and the choices we make will determine where we will be in the future. He highlights that it is our habits that make us. ‘We are what we repeatedly do.’ It is your habits that will either make you or break you.

In his third chapter, Hardy strongly urges us to set goals. It is goals that will push us to stay consistent. It is goals that will make us work anticipating for positive end results. Another aspect that the author feels stops us from working to our maximum are our influences or, simply put, those around us or what we feed our minds with. The environment might also contribute greatly to how we perform. ‘Garbage in; garbage out.’ The final chapter is about acceleration. Once you hit a wall, how do you react? Do you give up, or do you accelerate? He urges us all to accelerate because that wall or challenge you have encountered isn’t an obstacle; it’s an opportunity.

In my opinion, it is a pretty relatable book because the author gives live examples of certain instances and how all these principles affected individuals either positively or negatively. Once I started reading, most of the information was quite relatable because as I progressed through the book, I was forced to reflect more and more on my daily actions and all the barriers he mentioned were really evident in my life. It is quite positive however because he also shares how to overcome such challenges or act upon them. It is said that an individual who possesses information and doesn’t act upon it is not quite different from one who has none at all.

To whom do I recommend this book to therefore? I recommend it to all of you who made it this far? Whether young, old because such information, if acquired, no matter the time or age, if acted upon can reap the best of results. Never think that there will be a right time or, it is too late. We all strive for greatness but the real question is, are you really working towards that greatness, or it is just word-of-mouth or just some distant thought.