Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court
Jay Wright, Michael Sheridan & Mark Dagostino · 2017
🎙 Narrated by Michael Sheridan, with an introduction read by author Jay Wright and a foreword by Adam Lazarre-White; Charles Barkley contributes a foreword to the print edition
60/100
👎 Skip It
Jay Wright's championship story has real behind-the-scenes appeal for Villanova and basketball fans, with humility and shared responsibility as its steady themes. But Publishers Weekly called out the leadership lessons as too obvious for readers wanting real business substance, and that tracks with a book that's more sports memoir than self-help manual. Worth it if you're already a fan; the narration itself is solid and unremarkable.
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🎙 Narration: good Michael Sheridan narrates with Jay Wright reading his own introduction, a nice personal touch, though no dedicated audio critique was found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness45
Craft & writing60
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers50
Age-fit90
Human-eye read55
Penny’s verdict60
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