Name: The 5 Second Rule
ISBN: 9781682612385

Mel Robbins

"Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself? Using the science of habits, ... stories, and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art, and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a 'push moment.' Then, she'll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self"--Amazon.com.

Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

The 5 Second Rule

Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself? Using the science habits, riveting stories and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a "push moment." Then, she'll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self. It take just five seconds to use this tool, and every time you do, you'll be in great company. More than 8 million people have watched Mel's TEDx Talk, and executives inside of the world's largest brands are using the tool to increase productivity, collaboration, and engagement. In The 5 Second Rule, you'll discover it takes just five seconds to: Become confident Break the habit of procrastination and self-doubt Beat fear and uncertainty Stop worrying and feel happier Share your ideas with courage The 5 Second Rule is a simple, one-size-fits-all solution for the one problem we all face—we hold ourselves back. The secret isn't knowing what to do—it's knowing how to make yourself do it. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

Terry Benzie

I wanted to like this...5, 4, 3, 2, 1...but didn't. 

The idea is solid. If you want to succeed, get your ass out of bed and get started. The author added a hack of counting down from 5 to 1 before you take said action.

That's it.

That's the entire technique.

That's the entire book. 

To be fair, she tells you this four times inside the first hour of the book (I purchase the audio version) and informs you that you could stop listening and get what it has to offer.

Believe her. Please. I didn't and kept listening, largely because of the number of positive reviews from people who apparently found the book impactful in their lives. Granted, the last quarter of the book does get better though that's when she got away from the 'rule' and reduced the number of testimonials from people who found it successful. However, these few ideas, none of which are original, don't just

Again, it's a good idea. If it were a blog post, I would bookmark it to re-read. If it were a TED talk, I would suggest that others listen to it (and her TED talk is quite good). However, this feels like she went to a publisher with an idea and was told she needed to flush out 267 pages (or 7.5 hours of audio). When she wasn't able to do this, they decided to flush out what seemed like half the book with tweets and Facebook comments from people saying they had 5, 4, 3, 2, 1'd themselves to greatness.

She mentions that there is a plethora of research that proves and supports her hack but never discusses or links to it. She runs through the a few ideas from psychology such as metacognition and sleep inertia but only in passing; if you know what they are, you don't need this book but if you are unfamiliar with such terms, you wouldn't have any idea when you finish. 

The author had excellent energy reading the book. She is an excellent speaker and this book feels like a two-hour keynote or perhaps half day similar. She spends the first third of the book telling her audience what they are going to learn before going into her story and realization that if you counted down from five it "activated your prefrontal cortex" and you could then do miracle. 

I suppose if you were really stuck in a rut and needed some place to start, this book could do it for you but I would advise anybody reading this to search YouTube for an interview or speech with the author and leave it at that.

Timeo Williams

I found the book insightful. Ive tried the 5 sec rule a couple of times so far, and they have been successful.

Fadi

هذا كتاب سيء 
لأسباب كثيرة
أولاً لأنّه مضلل، ولأنّه قائم على فكرة بسيطة جداً لا تحتاج إلى تأليف كتاب من 300 صفحة
ثانياً لأنّه يبني من فكرة بسطية قصر من هواء دون أي خطوات عملية 
ثالثاً لأنّ المؤلفة تقول إنّ هذا مثبت علمياً ولم تأتِ بأي دليل علمي محترم لكلامها
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المؤلفة رأت مشهداً على التلفاز في يوم ما لصاروخ يستعد للانطلاق بعد العد لـ 5-4-3-2-1-0 
فلمعت في رأسها فكرة أنّ هذا ما تحتاجه لحل كل مشكلاتها
فإذا أرادت الالتزام بأمر ما فعليها أن تعد عكسياً قبل البدء به
وإذا أردات الانصراف عن أمر فعلت الأمر نفسه
وهو ما يسمى في علم النفس ترك مسافة قصيرة بين الفعل وردة الفعل
هذا لبّ الكتاب والذي يمكن أن يُختصر بسطر واحد
باقي الكتاب كله حشو وقصص ورسائل خاصة من أشخاص تغيّرت حياتهم بسبب هذه القاعدة السحرية
هل يكذبون؟ لا أعتقد 
هل هم حمقى؟ ربما
يكفيك أن تحضر لها هذه المحاضرة على منصة تيد ولا تتعنى شراء+قراءة الكتاب 

https://www.ted.com/talks/mel_robbins...

Myla Larsen

‘The power of you’ 
It takes five seconds to change your life.

Ciara Perrin 

This book’s idea is so simple, and yet, so incredibly aspirational. I have begun getting out of bed on time, getting work completed in a timely manner and making tough decisions without giving up on myself. Thanks, Mel.

Grace O'Callaghan

This was absolutely incredible. Such an inspirational read (listen).

This was a great way to start off the year and I hope to implement this rule into my own life.
It would have been five stars if it was much shorter. Some bits were incredibly long and repetitive. I think it could have been far shorter and packed a real punch instead of a long winded explanation of how to count backwards from 5.

But overall this has given me hope. Hope that I can build my own confidence and push myself more. Thank you Mel Robbins, I hope the 5 second rule works for me.

Ceyda karacan

I know this is going to help me so much with my anxiety and just help with life to be honest.

I hope I don't give away too much if say that the rule is to always countdown from 5 and go do the hard thing you would otherwise make excuses about and avoid... Oh wait I did just give away the whole book. :(

cygnoir

It says in 240 pages what could have been said in 1.

Kernisha H.

I did not finish this book. My 1 star rating is based on the first 7 chapters. 

My thoughts on what I read so far is that: 
1. Quite a bit was very repetitive
2. The author spoke too much about themselves
3. Author took too long getting to the point
4. The formatting was not for me.

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