I am not a fan of self-improvement books but against my better judgement I do buy them now and again, only to be disappointed. This one is no different. The author advises people to use their spare time to go out and get experiences, mostly at an extreme sport challenge level instead of catching up on the chores or resting. I did not buy into this at all. I do believe that a quiet life is OK and that sitting reading a book instead of going ice skating is OK too. As well as not accepting the premise, I did not like the structure of the book - it is confusing, waffling and intespersed with irrelevant stories and name-dropping. Although he would perhaps disagree, I think he has written a book for corporate men betwen the ages of 30 and 50. Like himself, I guess.

Making the most of our time is something we all wrestle with. There is much useful information in this book to help with this, backed by research. However it could be so much more succinct. There is so much flab - overblown stories that get in the way of navigating the book and absorbing what is valuable.

I feel obliged to give 4 stars because its useful content is to be recommended. It could be so much better presented though.

This is the sort of book I love to have in a hard copy, I do think these are better to have to highlight passages with stickers and it’s easy to look back on.

However I’m very grateful to netgalley for sending me the ARC and while I haven’t read it all, it’s something to keep for future reference and to refer back to.