5 AM Club is the latest book of the best selling author Robin Sharma. He is know for his best selling book “Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”. In this book, he talks about the importance of getting up at 5 am and how to use the time from 5am – 6am interpreted as Victory Hour.
The book follows story based writing styles instead of the standard structure of Self-Help books. The story is based on 4 characters. An entrepreneur and an artist who haven’t found the right path in their lives attends a personal optimization conference.
In the conference, they meet a homeless man who also attends the conference. The homeless man shares his knowledge with the 2 people and ask them to come to visit him after the conference and learn from his mentor. As the story goes on homeless man turns out to be a very rich businessman and the speaker in the conference turns out to be his mentor. Throughout the book, the mentor and homeless man teaches the artist and entrepreneur about the 5am club.
The book provides lots of lessons for improving our lives. However, the main concept is getting up at 5 am each day and spend one hour ( Victory Hour) executing certain tasks for personal mastery as well as for preparing for the day ahead.
If you are someone who wakes up late and starts the work day like an avaregae person, this book might help you to know the importance of getting up early. Also once you get up early, you should execute the right tasks that improves you as a person and makes the rest of the day easier. Following are some of the key learning outcomes of this book.
Key Learning Outcomes
Conclusion
In this section, we are going to give our opinions about the book under various points.
** These are our opinions about the book and hence you should only use it as a starting point on what to expect from this book. Your perception about the book may vary based on the books you have read on this subject and what you expect from this book. **
Rating – 5.5 out of 10
Book content quality – The book lacks innovative or new concepts. The main concept of the book is getting up early before everyone else and using the 5am – 6am hour for make a head start to the day by getting your mind and body ready. However, its takes long time for the author even to introduce the concept of the 5am club. So, most people may decide to give up on the book in early stages as there is nothing about the Victory Hour in early parts of the book. In the later chapters, the author discusses the things to be executed in Victory Hour and how to structure your day with various concepts and models. Author could have provided more value from this book by introducing the concepts early and leaving out the clutter.
Book length – Considering the concepts explained in this book, we feel that the book is too lengthy with 300+ pages. The information could have been provided within 150-200 pages book by removing the unnecessary parts of the story as well as very basic concepts known by most people.
