Will
by Will Smith with Mark Manson
Smith's memoir of a Philadelphia childhood, early fame as a rapper, bankruptcy, the sitcom, the film career built on studying box-office patterns, and the realisation that relentless achievement had been running from fear. It is candid, structured by Manson, and more reflective than its celebrity origin suggests.
Read it if…
you want a success memoir that turns on the costs of success.
Skip it if…
you want gossip; the interesting parts are the inner ones.
Three things you will actually use
- Study the pattern before you chase the prize.
- Discipline built on fear eventually collapses.
- Achievement does not fill the hole it was meant to.
Do this first
Read the chapter on how he reverse-engineered box-office hits, then the chapter on what the drive was hiding.
Our verdict
Success, and what it was running from.
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