Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog
Admiral William H. McRaven · 2023
🎙 Narrated by Admiral William H. McRaven (self-narrated)
72/100
👍 Worth It
McRaven's follow-up to Make Your Bed leans on real stories from four decades of Navy service, including his role overseeing the bin Laden raid, and the chapters move fast. Kirkus called the lessons 'sensible yet overly familiar,' and that's fair — you've heard versions of this leadership advice before. McRaven again narrates it himself, and that authentic voice carries it further than the content alone would.
✦ 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: good McRaven again narrates his own Grand Central Publishing Audio edition, continuing the same first-person, plainspoken delivery as Make Your Bed.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing75
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit85
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict72
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