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Be Useful

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Summary

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The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.

The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.

Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart.

Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, BE USEFUL takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold's toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike--some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever.

Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you - you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.

©2023 Arnold Schwarzenegger (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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My new bible

Absolutely incredible. I can’t put into words how inspiring I found this book. Simultaneously pragmatic and motivational in a way that so many of books in this genre fail to be. Can’t recommend it enough. Amazing.

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Be Useful

Useful advice from Arnold on the key drivers of life and how to apply them. Motivating and aplicable. Given in his own words and charismatic style.

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An inspiring book

I really enjoyed Arnold's first book and took note of many of the mechanisms he uses to improve himself quoting him often and using his techniques to improve myself in my line of work in the Royal Navy -"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise" really works. I really enjoyed that he narrated the full book this time and his latest book adds a new dimension to his previous. I found the sections on self motivation and on giving back particularly inspiring.l and interesting

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Inspired

Anything is possible if you put the hard work into it . Love this man. I will be back !

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Total-ly INSPIRATIONAL

A truly inspirational book, spoken with complete honesty by a modern great. Full of Useful stories and guides for all adults. You cannot fail to learn from this book. A must-read.

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Arnie has a great enthusiastic voice with lots of life wisdom to share. it is a good read

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Excellent

Well worth your time. This is an excellent book indeed and I can recommend it.


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Walk you talk.

Lead by example. Developed yourself and help grow others, it will change lives for good and bring more happiness in your life too.
Be curious and be useful.

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Incredible life journey filled with resilience.

A great inspirational book that would have been less enjoyable without him reading it...

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His determination and hunger for success and achieve mew goals

I loves the book. I would strongly recommend to watch his Netflix documentary first, this will give you a better understanding of his story and his why's and how's.

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