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Review by Read_Terri -- The Mindset by Ace Bowers
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The Mindset is a short memoir written by Ace Bowers. Bowers starts the first chapter as a kid living a life with parents constantly fighting. His parents mismanage money, and buying cigarettes and booze takes priority over paying the light bill or buying school supplies for their children. He likes being at his friends’ houses but realizes that his life is not normal. Unknowingly, Bowers’s mindset is already emerging. In high school, he works to buy his clothes, school supplies, and other things he wants. After high school, Bowers is beginning to feel he has nowhere to go, while his friends are going to college or the military. His aunt buys him a car and gives him an offer to move to California to live with his cousin rent-free for a few months until he can find a job. During this time, he is turned down for a job because he has a 400 credit score. Five years later, Bowers is a millionaire.
This book is not a step by step process about how Bowers became a millionaire in 5 short years. Nor is it a filled with bitterness from a man who had a poverty-stricken childhood. Instead, Bowers writes honestly and humbly about his life. One of the things I like most about this book is he gives credit to others for his success. He worked hard to get there, but he mentions people who help him along the way, God, his aunt, Nana, his parents, and his brother. I was disappointed that he did not mention his sister towards the end of the book. Bowers stated that she protected him until she went to college so I thought there might be a mention of her life towards the end of the book. He gave reasons for his parents' behavior while he was young. He did not develop a close relationship with his brother as they got older, but they did help each other out. Otherwise, there was nothing I did not like.
The Mindset is rated 4 out of 4. The writing style was straight forward and matter of factly about Bowers’s life and how he became a successful person without a college education. Two things seemed major turning points. First, after seeing homeless people before and having an opinion about them, he really sees the homeless people on the streets in a college town and realizes they are not just bad people, but he could become one of them. Bowers writes, “I took a long, hard, honest look at them and told myself that any one of these individuals could have been me.” He then takes a $6.00 an hour janitorial job. Second, finding out he is going to be a father and not wanted his child to have the life he had full of poverty and disappointments.
The Mindset is a great motivational book for both young adults and adults. His story shows that no matter the life you have, how poor you are, or how lost and hopeless you feel, many adversaries can be overcome. He smoked, was overweight, depressed, and bad credit in his twenties. Once he found out, he was going to be a father. He stopped smoking, lost 85 pounds, and overcame other obstacles. People who are not interested in memoirs may not enjoy this book. However, I am one of those people and since it was a short book, I decided to give it a try. While it is out of my realm of genre, I am glad it read it. I could keep addressing many lessons from this book.
The Mindset is professionally edited. I did not notice any errors while reading. There are a few words that some many consider strong language.
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The Mindset is a short memoir written by Ace Bowers. Bowers starts the first chapter as a kid living a life with parents constantly fighting. His parents mismanage money, and buying cigarettes and booze takes priority over paying the light bill or buying school supplies for their children. He likes being at his friends’ houses but realizes that his life is not normal. Unknowingly, Bowers’s mindset is already emerging. In high school, he works to buy his clothes, school supplies, and other things he wants. After high school, Bowers is beginning to feel he has nowhere to go, while his friends are going to college or the military. His aunt buys him a car and gives him an offer to move to California to live with his cousin rent-free for a few months until he can find a job. During this time, he is turned down for a job because he has a 400 credit score. Five years later, Bowers is a millionaire.
This book is not a step by step process about how Bowers became a millionaire in 5 short years. Nor is it a filled with bitterness from a man who had a poverty-stricken childhood. Instead, Bowers writes honestly and humbly about his life. One of the things I like most about this book is he gives credit to others for his success. He worked hard to get there, but he mentions people who help him along the way, God, his aunt, Nana, his parents, and his brother. I was disappointed that he did not mention his sister towards the end of the book. Bowers stated that she protected him until she went to college so I thought there might be a mention of her life towards the end of the book. He gave reasons for his parents' behavior while he was young. He did not develop a close relationship with his brother as they got older, but they did help each other out. Otherwise, there was nothing I did not like.
The Mindset is rated 4 out of 4. The writing style was straight forward and matter of factly about Bowers’s life and how he became a successful person without a college education. Two things seemed major turning points. First, after seeing homeless people before and having an opinion about them, he really sees the homeless people on the streets in a college town and realizes they are not just bad people, but he could become one of them. Bowers writes, “I took a long, hard, honest look at them and told myself that any one of these individuals could have been me.” He then takes a $6.00 an hour janitorial job. Second, finding out he is going to be a father and not wanted his child to have the life he had full of poverty and disappointments.
The Mindset is a great motivational book for both young adults and adults. His story shows that no matter the life you have, how poor you are, or how lost and hopeless you feel, many adversaries can be overcome. He smoked, was overweight, depressed, and bad credit in his twenties. Once he found out, he was going to be a father. He stopped smoking, lost 85 pounds, and overcame other obstacles. People who are not interested in memoirs may not enjoy this book. However, I am one of those people and since it was a short book, I decided to give it a try. While it is out of my realm of genre, I am glad it read it. I could keep addressing many lessons from this book.
The Mindset is professionally edited. I did not notice any errors while reading. There are a few words that some many consider strong language.
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