Chrissy’s Review: The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

The Slight Edge
written by Jeff Olson
published by Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2013

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Did I enjoy this book? It was OK, but it isn’t one I’d write home about.

The overall message of The Slight Edge is a solid one that everyone should practice. Your attitude and actions affect your outcomes. Work hard, work steady, keep doing the work and taking the steps. It’s the small but consistent choices and actions that make all the difference in the long run.

However, I found it hard to find that message in this book. I kept asking myself, “But what is ‘the slight edge’ he keeps mentioning?” I had to go back and reread several parts to figure it out. I just didn’t find the book particularly well organized or presented. The anecdotes and stories included didn’t always fit the message of the chapter, and some of those stories were too long in my opinion. I definitely found myself skimming those parts. I also skimmed the headers in each chapter and read the relevant parts.

Would I recommend it? It wouldn’t be a must-read personal development recommendation, or even in my top 10. If you have already read quite a few personal development books, then you could probably skip this one or at least skim it, reading the “essential points” from each chapter.
 

 
About the book – from Goodreads: The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It’s not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you.

In this 8th anniversary edition you’ll read not only the life-changing concepts of the original book, but also learn what author Jeff Olson discovered as he continued along the slight edge path: the Secret to Happiness and the Ripple Effect.

This edition of The Slight Edge isn’t just the story, but also how the story continues to create life-altering dynamics—how a way of thinking, a way of processing information, can impact daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. The Slight Edge is “the key” that will make all the other how-to books and self-help information that you read, watch and hear actually work.

 

 

 

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