Pete Hall

There are thirteen key learnings compiled from interviews, discussions, travels, and interactions with people, broken down into four parts: knowing oneself, working for love, letting one’s light shine, and ruling the day. Throughout the book, readers have the time to pause, reflect, and understand who they are as a person and develop goals to improve themselves in a personal and professional capacity.

The book provides anecdotes from seven people whose journeys are deliberately unrelatable to the readers in order to demonstrate the different ways to become better individuals. This is extremely refreshing because it means readers can see how unique everyone is; if the book only included celebrities, readers would focus on the popularity and success aspects of their lives instead of an ordinary person’s idea of being a better person. For example, one anecdote features a woman whose persistence and joyous perspective on life stem from her love for Tigger’s catchphrase and this helped land her a successful professional life.

In addition, there are activities for readers to reflect on and act upon. These activities include thought-provoking questions, such as considering what the reader would like to offer the world, and practical activities to apply to their lives, such as reframing negative sentences into positive phrases. Such examples include refraining from using the term ‘Don’t’ and instead considering saying ‘Be careful with’ and ‘Remember to’. Ultimately, there are small changes readers can make to their lives that can make them a better person.

The book delves heavily into the seven subjects and is extremely long for a guide. Therefore, it might be difficult to refer back to certain parts of the book such as the discussion with the seven subjects on how to improve their routine, such as making bad habits uncomfortable. Nonetheless, this is a comprehensive guide to becoming a better person, but the content is lengthy. This is a great read and the book requires digging deep to become personally and professionally successful. This can be generating a different routine, justifying their quirky behaviour, fitting in, or merely being a better person than they are today.


I received a free review copy. Thank you to OnlineBookClub and author.… (més)

There are thirteen key learnings compiled from interviews, discussions, travels, and interactions with people, broken down into four parts: knowing oneself, working for love, letting one’s light shine, and ruling the day. Throughout the book, readers have the time to pause, reflect, and understand who they are as a person and develop goals to improve themselves in a personal and professional capacity.

The book provides anecdotes from seven people whose journeys are deliberately unrelatable to the readers in order to demonstrate the different ways to become better individuals. This is extremely refreshing because it means readers can see how unique everyone is; if the book only included celebrities, readers would focus on the popularity and success aspects of their lives instead of an ordinary person’s idea of being a better person. For example, one anecdote features a woman whose persistence and joyous perspective on life stem from her love for Tigger’s catchphrase and this helped land her a successful professional life.

In addition, there are activities for readers to reflect on and act upon. These activities include thought-provoking questions, such as considering what the reader would like to offer the world, and practical activities to apply to their lives, such as reframing negative sentences into positive phrases. Such examples include refraining from using the term ‘Don’t’ and instead considering saying ‘Be careful with’ and ‘Remember to’. Ultimately, there are small changes readers can make to their lives that can make them a better person.

The book delves heavily into the seven subjects and is extremely long for a guide. Therefore, it might be difficult to refer back to certain parts of the book such as the discussion with the seven subjects on how to improve their routine, such as making bad habits uncomfortable. Nonetheless, this is a comprehensive guide to becoming a better person, but the content is lengthy. This is a great read and the book requires digging deep to become personally and professionally successful. This can be generating a different routine, justifying their quirky behaviour, fitting in, or merely being a better person than they are today.


I received a free review copy. Thank you to OnlineBookClub and author.… (més)

This book is like many others in the education world in that it assumes that the entire burden of teaching is upon the isolated teacher in the isolated classroom. The author provides a method of self-assessment for that teacher hoping that asking ones self some serious reflective questions will stimulate improvements alongside the pressure of testing and any supervisory evaluations of classroom practices. We wish that someone would come out with some good strategies for coteaching pairs. In our own writing, we suggest that after the unit or lesson is over and the grading is in, a reflection be held by the adults with the learners with such simple questions as: What did we learn as a group? What did I learn as an individual? How did I learn what I learned? How did we learn? How could we do better next time? So what? What’s next? Perhaps simple and honest reflection on the part of learners and teachers would stimulate at least as much as singular self-assessment; hopefully more. This book might offer some ideas about adult reflection, but we recommend looking elsewhere for advice.… (més)