The “Two Second Advantage” is a novel that captures the reader’s attention by stating “How we succeed by anticipating the future.” The novel’s main purpose is to provide the reader with evidence and examples of how anticipations can provide someone with a successful outcome. The book covers the lives of many individuals and how foresight has given them an advantage in their careers. The thesis of the “The Two-Second Advantage” is how early predictions and anticipations result in major success for the task chosen. The subtitle of the book “How we succeed by anticipating the future-just enough” gives away the primary thesis. The author thoroughly examines several different individual tactics for completing a task and being extremely successful throughout. The authors of “The Two-Second Advantage”, Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney, pursues the reader of how success can be achieved through hard work, dedication and a different approach to the task. The authors explore the reasoning behind the success of individuals such as Wayne Gretzky and Eduard Schmieder (famous violin player), as well as buisness and technologic careers. This aspect of the novel attracts and the readers, and allows them to relate and apply the knowledge gained. Although my attention was captured throughout the book, there were points where I found the authors were a tad too repetitive in a way that they re-used their ideas and thoughts in different stories throughout the book. This was the novels only downfall. I believe that this book was very well written due to how strongly the authors portrayed their messages. I thoroughly enjoyed the numerous amounts of experiences discussed throughout the book. This allowed for an effectual and insightful read, along with many interesting facts that I learned. The authors ability to provide examples in many different fields of study, allows for the reader to use these stories to their advantage and relate the stories to their lives.
The “Two Second Advantage” is a novel that captures the reader’s attention by stating “How we succeed by anticipating the future.” The novel’s main purpose is to provide the reader with evidence and examples of how anticipations can provide someone with a successful outcome. The book covers the lives of many individuals and how foresight has given them an advantage in their careers. The thesis of the “The Two-Second Advantage” is how early predictions and anticipations result in major success for the task chosen. The subtitle of the book “How we succeed by anticipating the future-just enough” gives away the primary thesis. The author thoroughly examines several different individual tactics for completing a task and being extremely successful throughout.
ReplyDeleteThe authors of “The Two-Second Advantage”, Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney, pursues the reader of how success can be achieved through hard work, dedication and a different approach to the task. The authors explore the reasoning behind the success of individuals such as Wayne Gretzky and Eduard Schmieder (famous violin player), as well as buisness and technologic careers. This aspect of the novel attracts and the readers, and allows them to relate and apply the knowledge gained.
Although my attention was captured throughout the book, there were points where I found the authors were a tad too repetitive in a way that they re-used their ideas and thoughts in different stories throughout the book. This was the novels only downfall.
I believe that this book was very well written due to how strongly the authors portrayed their messages. I thoroughly enjoyed the numerous amounts of experiences discussed throughout the book. This allowed for an effectual and insightful read, along with many interesting facts that I learned. The authors ability to provide examples in many different fields of study, allows for the reader to use these stories to their advantage and relate the stories to their lives.