This book was the perfect introduction to the success genre for me. I would never have picked up the books summarised in here, would never have even thought they could be useful to me, without reading this. There are maybe only a half dozen that I will go out of my way to read now, but even so, I've taken pages and pages of notes on the insights I found in the summaries, so it's been a book of tremendous value to me. I thought about abandoning the book halfway through, only because it was a hard slog at times to force myself to read something fairly academic, but I'm so glad I persisted as I made lots more notes on important points. Not every chapter had value for me, but many, many of them did.