Name: Kyler Phillips's review of Happy Sexy Millionaire by Steven Bartlett
Item: Happy Sexy Millionaire
Rating: 3.5
Author: Kyler Phillips

Steven Bartlett

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER We are losing ourselves. We're chasing the wrong things, asking the wrong questions, and polluting our minds. It's time to stop, it's time to resist and it's time to rethink the fundamental social blueprint that our lives are built upon. 'As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything I set out to, I learnt that I was wrong about almost everything... The world had lied to me. It lied to me about how you attain fulfilment, love and success, why those things matter, and what those words actually mean. In this book, I'll dismantle the most popular, unaddressed lies about happiness that we've been led to believe. I'll expose the source of these lies, examine the incentives that fuel them and replace them with a practical set of scientifically proven and unconventional ideas that will help you to live a truly fulfilled life, a life full of the love you seek and the success you deserve.' 'This book will change your life if you let it.' - Tom Bilyeu, Co-Founder/CEO of Impact Theory & Co-Founder of Quest Nutrition

Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success

Happy Sexy Millionaire

"This book will change your life if you let it." -Tom Bilyeu, Co-Founder/CEO of Impact Theory & Co-Founder of Quest Nutrition We are losing ourselves. We're chasing the wrong things, asking the wrong questions, and polluting our minds. It's time to stop, it's time to resist and it's time to rethink the fundamental social blueprint that our lives are built upon. As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything I set out to, I learnt that I was wrong about almost everything... The world had lied to me. It lied to me about how you attain fulfillment, love and success, why those things matter, and what those words actually mean. In this book, I'll dismantle the most popular, unaddressed lies about happiness that we've been led to believe. I'll expose the source of these lies, examine the incentives that fuel them and replace them with a practical set of scientifically proven and unconventional ideas that will help you to live a truly fulfilled life, a life full of the love you seek and the success you deserve.

Unexpected Truths about Fulfillment, Love, and Success

Kyler Phillips

Be grateful, for gratitude can bring life to life, it can turn a meal to a feast, resentment to love, a grudge to forgiveness, an enemy to a friend, a disease to hope and you to enough.

Maybe you’ve always been happy, but the world, social media and external comparisons have convinced you that you can’t possibly be.

A DISRUPTIVE, FULFILMENT-FIRST APPROACH TO LIVING IN THE MODERN AGE BY 27-YEAR-OLD ENTREPRENEUR AND CEO OF SOCIAL CHAIN, STEVEN BARTLETTHappy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success is a crucial intervention for a society that is going in the wrong direction, offering actionable advice to help improve your mindset.Steven unapologetically and humorously challenges widely-accepted, often damaging cliches on topics of happiness, love and success, and replaces them with bold, science-backed and unconventional principles for surviving. In a world where we're told that we must make sacrifices to become successful, Steven teaches us how to achieve personal success without losing sight of the other things that make life fundamentally worthwhile. He shows us that money and happiness aren't mutually exclusive or hard to attain for anyone, if you understand the simple principles that both are based on.From social media to comparison culture, relationships to entrepreneurship, Steven borrows from his own inspiring success story and teaches us how we can attain long-lasting fulfilment in our modern, hyper-connected landscape.

James Bedford

Piet Terheyden

For the most part, this book was a good listen. It’s a typical zero to hero manifesto with actionable practices and mind framing techniques to become more fulfilled and successful backed by a fair amount of research and relevant studies.

The author provides an honest spoonful of medicine about how the younger generation of today are caught up in social media, comparison and competition with others and argues that ultimately the route to happiness and fulfilment is accepting you already have enough.

It’s obvious that Steven Bartlett has received a great deal of success, and after listening to his Diary of a CEO podcast I was curious to hear his own perspective about building and crafting “the best life”. One might argue some of his opinions lean slightly on the more arrogant side, and perhaps that’s warranted given his success, although I’d like to have seen a side where his wealth and fame doesn’t perpetuate that toxic urge to hustle to succeed in business whilst perhaps sacrificing other areas of life. 

Lots of timely and applicable advice though, I’d recommend giving this a read for young people that want a good life ahead.

For the most part, this book was a good listen. It’s a typical zero to hero manifesto with actionable practices and mind framing techniques to become more fulfilled and successful backed by a fair amount of research and relevant studies.

The author provides an honest spoonful of medicine about how the younger generation of today are caught up in social media, comparison and competition with others and argues that ultimately the route to happiness and fulfilment is accepting you already have enough.

It’s obvious that Steven Bartlett has received a great deal of success, and after listening to his Diary of a CEO podcast I was curious to hear his own perspective about building and crafting “the best life”. One might argue some of his opinions lean slightly on the more arrogant side, and perhaps that’s warranted given his success, although I’d like to have seen a side where his wealth and fame doesn’t perpetuate that toxic urge to hustle to succeed in business whilst perhaps sacrificing other areas of life. 

Lots of timely and applicable advice though, I’d recommend giving this a read for young people that want a good life ahead.

I really enjoyed this.

This is a candid look at 'success' from the perspective of someone who has achieved financial and business success, and how actually, in the scheme of things, it matters very little. 

If you have read many self-help books before, the topics will be fairly familiar. Purpose, motivation, habits are all discussed, but to hear about them from someones perspective who has 'been there and done it' was refreshing. 

Although it wasn't discussed specifically, there was an undercurrent of minimalism present in this book. How physical goods lure us in to making us think we want them, how important purpose is in our lives and how these vanity metrics tricked Steven into chasing a life he 'thought' he wanted, before realising that it was mainly superficial. 

The chapters all read like essays, some are shorter than others, but it also means you can pick up and put down fairly easily. Stevens writing style is very relaxed and conversational - at first I was worried it was a little too superficial (a little too much swearing to begin with which made me feel as though they had been put there purposely to strike the right tone), but the more I read the more I enjoyed the writing. 

Well worth a read imo.

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