Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2020, softcover, 314 pages, condition: as new.
For more than four decades, Robin Sharma has crossed the globe helping people lead lives that inspire the world. Now, in The 5 AM Club, he shares his original insights and the battle-tested tools he has developed by working with the most successful people on the planet. Based on the key insight that winning starts at the beginning of the day, Sharma shows how you can reduce stress, improve focus, unleash uncommon creativity, achieve exponential productivity and restore balance.
"The 5 AM Club is the place where leaders and victors are made. It is the special hour that exists before the sun rises and when most of the population is still asleep. This time is for a dedication to and preservation of ourselves and what we do during these sixty precious minutes can impact not only the hours to come, but the rest of our lives beyond it.
I like to consume self-improvement books at semi-regular intervals. Whilst many similarities might lie inside their pages and the format remains similar between each, I find the repetition of the knowledge they all impart to fuel my creativity and focus until my next mental lag, when I will begin the process of reading one all over again.
The 5 AM Club is a title I had been meaning to read for some time, given its renown and how frequently the title pops up on lists of best non-fiction books, which are written in a similar vein. I did not, however, find it like any other I had read before.
The book is structured as a series of fictional interactions between a mentor and the two strangers he begins to instruct. Their meeting is strange and his mannerisms even more so, but they, against all logic, decide to trust him, and embark on a journey of challenges and change.
The reader also becomes privy to the methods, the madness, and the miracles this mentor provides, which are slowly revealed as the book progresses. In between his snippets of personal wisdom are facets of the three individual's daily lives and quotes from a multitude of admirable historical individuals.
Yes, this book's knowledge could be condensed into twenty short pages of instruction and yes, the contents are probably available elsewhere, but it is the journey taken to gain this understanding that impacted me so strongly. As the individuals come to realise facets of their lives and their characters, I too began to understand something of myself. There was nothing that made the pair similar to myself in any way other than our shared journey to understanding, but this was enough."
