89. Book Review | Be obsessed or be Average by Grant Cardone

I picked this book randomly. I love the name of the book. The story of the author Grant Cardone is very interesting. He was a drug addict till he was 25 and then came his defining moment when he decided to change his life for good and what a comeback he has made. The best book about becoming a rich can come from a person who has done it all by himself. Grant Cardone is one such dude. I follow him on twitter now and I have read all the books written by him by. I wanted to review this book for a long time and finally, i have decided to review and post my opinions about it.

The book has opened my minds to the powers of social media. I don't do much of twitter, facebook or Instagram and I never found the need for it. He showed me that one has to move with the speed of the world to become rich in the contemporary world. I have read a lot of books on becoming rich as my prime aim has changed recently to becoming rich from filmmaking. I can do filmmaking only when I can become rich and have money to create what I want to create. The books that I have read previously were extremely great books but most good books on the science of getting rich were written way long back and times have changed from then to now. The medium of becoming rich has changed too. The software industry is on all time high and people who have invested their time in the software industry are churning money in millions and billions. I am a software engineer myself but I never studied anything in college that could help me today. To start again I have to learn some coding language and I don't have all the patience in the world to learn that. Though I am trying that now. Reading his book made me realize that it is very important to be smart and work all the time because you must love your work to the level of being obsessed and that can only happen if you have deep and extreme desires of becoming a rich man, for that you must have ambitions and again tremendous desires to change your life. Reading his book has made me more interested in things that I wanted to do but was only planning int he past. It opened my eyes to all the possibilities of what I can do with my life and from where I can earn money.

There is money all around us, we are just unable to see it because we don' see things in terms of product. To become rich you must have your product. Now that product can be you or a material thing, something that you have created but until and unless you have a product in which you have complete trust in, you will never be able to get rich. Think about it, where are you going to get all the money. It is from other people. but why would other people pay you money? They will pay you only when you will give them something that is of value to them and that thing of value is your product.

He writes about social networking too which is a very important aspect of getting rich. He crazily did social networking for himself and his company and there were experts around him who asked and advised him to not flood twitter with posts every 5 seconds but he said he refused to listen to them and soon his followers started to grow. I immediately opened my twitter account after reading about his thinking wondering what has stopped me for so long. Since then I have tweeted some 5000 tweets and-and I am not stopping. My followers have increased and are continuously increasing.

In the book, he tells you exact methods that you can use to become successful and they are just old methods wrapped in new good content but the language he uses is very effective. There is a 10 X rule too which I liked very much. It will help you expand your thinking and force you out of middle class or lower class mentality which I think is the biggest enemy in your journey towards wealth. To become rich one has to think ten times in terms of what one is thinking right now. Imagine how much will it blow your mind when you multiply your goal of 30 Lakh Rupees to 3 Crore Rupees. If you stick to this method it will only bring better results and nothign else.