Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Warrior Mindset
Roger Gracie · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Roger Gracie (author-narrated), with Mark Meadows reading portions including Tom Hardy's foreword; Roger Wayne also credited on some editions
66/100
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Roger Gracie narrates his own story here, and that authenticity carries the audiobook even when reviewers say it stays surface-level on any one topic — it's part memoir, part promotion for the sport that made him famous. The breathwork exercises are a nice bonus if you're into that. Worth a listen for BJJ fans, but casual self-help readers may want more depth than this delivers.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Eastern-influenced/Tao framing rather than Western faith tradition; combat-sports subject matter. We still scored it 66; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Author-narrated by Roger Gracie himself, which lends authenticity to a first-person memoir, though no dedicated audio-performance review was located.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness55
Craft & writing60
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit75
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict66
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