REVIEW: Jim Loer and Tony Schwartz "Living at Full Power"

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Jim Loer and Tony Schwartz are famous sports psychologists who decided to write a book for businessmen and all those who care about their own productivity. The book turned out to be interesting, but very controversial.

First of all, I'd like to say that Loer and Schwartz wrote one of the most unusual time management books I've ever seen. From the very first pages, it becomes clear that people who have worked with athletes for a long time have had a hand in creating the book (or rather, four hands) - on almost every page you can find references to certain sports results, and ten pages later, the author firmly there are words from the lexicon of nutritionists: "calorie content", "fat content" and others.

Jim and Tony in their book say that each person, in essence, is a complex system of reservoirs in which he stores various types of energies - emotional, mental, physical and others. Any effective person should correctly use these types of energy, but also be able to accumulate them, and in sufficient quantities. Consider this a summary of the essence of the book.

Life at Full Power turned out to be an entertaining, but rather chaotic, crumpled book. Personally, I did not like the authors' transition to dietetics, the brevity of the presentation (I spent only two hours for the whole book), the illogical and incomprehensible of some chapters, the ambiguity of judgments. However, I came across the first edition of "Life at Full Power", and now the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" has already published the second, revised and enlarged edition. This book is one of the kind that you need to read, despite any shortcomings - after all, for the sake of a few clever thoughts, you can shovel a couple of hundred pages of text.