Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Derek Sivers · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Derek Sivers (with Naina Kader on the newer 2025 Hit Media edition)
85/100
👍 Worth It
Sivers packs more honest, useful thinking into forty short lessons than most business books manage in ten times the length — candid about his mistakes, refreshingly unbothered by growth-at-all-costs conventional wisdom. It's a fast listen you'll want to replay in pieces rather than binge once. And since Sivers narrates it himself, it feels like hearing the story straight from him over coffee, which makes the audiobook absolutely worth it.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Sivers narrates it himself (with Naina Kader on the newer 2025 edition), giving it a candid, conversational, author-read feel that suits the short-lesson format.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing90
Originality88
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers82
Age-fit82
Human-eye read88
Penny’s verdict85
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