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Be Useful
- Seven Tools for Life
- Narrated by: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.
The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart.
Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, BE USEFUL takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold's toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike--some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever.
Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you - you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.
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- Sebastian
- 15-10-23
What a life and message!
Fascinating and inspiring - a great listen in Arnold’s own voice. Incredible advice delivered with true life stories.
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- Brian Wood
- 19-10-23
Inspiring stuff and well read by the man himself !!
Simple and basic but resonating and and inspiring. Annie draw on the many fascinating parts of his life and career that link to being useful across the 7 tool for life
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- nicky
- 22-10-23
Absolutely loved it!
What a brilliant book! I have never written a book review before but thought it was so fantastic listening to Arnold narrating this. I’m really pleased that I listened to it on Audible as hearing his voice was even more inspiring. From the first few chapters I was recommending this book to family, friends & clients as think there is so much for everyone to be taken away from this (for me: work works, wenn schon denn schon, being open to learning at every stage of life). I will be re-listening to this very soon I’m sure. Thank you Arnold and team for this brilliant book.
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- David
- 02-11-23
AmaXing
Excellent blueprint for successful life
So sad Arnie cannot run for president USA
Perhaps the UN
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- Steve
- 08-11-23
He is the man
Amazing listen, and very humble for a man who has achieved so much. A must listen
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- Cliente Amazon
- 19-11-23
Inspiring and Motvating Arnold is a legend !
Really enjoyed this book. Arnold has been such a big figure in my life since I watching all his movies as a kid. Some wonderful wisdom shared some of which I will definitely be following. The best thing has to be that Arnold is the narrator, will listen again !
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-11-23
LISTEN TO THIS OR YOU’ll REGRET IT!
Very good, inspiring, motivating, emotional, empowering, interesting, just listen, you won’t regret it. Thanks Arnold :)
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- Wayne
- 24-11-23
Time for me to be useful
After listening to this I consider it to be a list of insightful bullet points with examples of how Mr S used them to scale his life to the lofty heights that he has achieved. Although it was largely unrelatable to me it was easy to take away many lessons going forward and I am already spotting moments of opportunity to be more useful 😊
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- Jo Holloway
- 29-10-23
Lovely interesting listen
Really enjoyed ‘Be useful’ Loved all the stories and the self belief messages Arnie gives
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- JPotter
- 02-11-23
Great story with some excellent advice
It's always best to have the author reading their own story and Arnold does extremely well.
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