Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger

BATB score: 1/10 🤬

omg shut up

Best to: mister invincible, mister go fight win, just go away

Best for: this work hard play harder mentality is so yesterday

BATB linger thought: this book would be exponentially better if Arnold Schwarzenegger talk truthfully about his affair, his failures as Governor of California, his whatever! just with more sincerity and humility; Arnold and David Goggins can be friends

Best as: the book’s narration sounds like that annoying uncle at family gatherings who kept bragging about his past in circles and you kept your polite awkward smile while mentally rolling your eyes 360; if we dissect the paragraphs, it’s like one-liner topic, repeated in 36 variations, throughout the whole book

Best quotes: “Focus on making improvements and banking achievements one day at a time.”

“There is no plan B. Plan B is to success at Plan A.”

“Do what you say you’re going to do, and try to do it a little better than you said you would.”

“By giving into negativity, you’re allowing these things to steal time from you, from your dream, and from the people closest to you whom it’s your job to lead.”