Be Obsessed or Be Average
Cardone reframes obsession as a virtue: rather than taming your ambition to fit in, he argues you should feed it, and channel that intensity into building the life you want.
Cardone pushes back on the idea that ambition should be tamed to fit in. Obsession, he argues, is not a disorder to be medicated away but the natural state of people who achieve remarkable things, and the real risk is settling into a comfortable average. Part memoir of his own climb out of addiction and mediocrity, part manifesto, the book urges readers to stop apologizing for wanting more and to pour that hunger into their goals, relationships, and work.
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