Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Notes from a Friend
Anthony Robbins · 2004
70/100
👍 Worth It
For readers who have never cracked a Tony Robbins book, this condensed distillation of his core ideas — decision-making, learned helplessness, changing beliefs through action — is a genuinely accessible on-ramp with a philanthropic origin that gives it a warmer quality than most self-help primers. It is explicitly a summary of other books rather than original content, and the NLP-based framing is contested in some circles. But as an introduction that actually gets read, it earns its place.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance65
craft72
originality55
accuracy68
hype72
age-fit80
human-eye70
Penny’s verdict70
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