Richard Branson's - Screw it, Let's do it

Genre : Non-Fictional
Rating : 4/5

Blame it to my bad –eyesight or my impatience, before this one, I could never finish reading a complete e-book. Though I started reading it reluctantly I absolutely enjoyed its font size.

Screw it, Lets do it is full of anecdotes from Richard Branson’s life. Richard Branson is now serving as a CEO of Virgin Airways. Like autobiography of any other successful entrepreneur, this book also points the success stories and struggle to achieve the success. You may ask, So how was is this book different from other biographies? Well, while proving his views he does not beat around the bush, instead he directly comes to the point. And he does that in just 110 pages ; )

The book is full of truisms as – Believe it can be done, never give up, have faith in urself, have no regrets et al… But Richard doesn’t drool over it, instead he explains all the points as moral of his short stories which gives this book a feel of collection of stories rather than boring self-improvement material. It covers Richard’s success chronicles right from his winning a swimming bet at age 4-5 till today when he is the successful CEO of one of the best airlines in world. ys, \ it as an ideal example! on'do it. bleood read.ter instead of capital. cannot do it. ries he did not stick to this prI respect Branson’s success but I don’t feel his every step is worth following.

He was or shud I say, he IS a real go-getter and has can-do attitude. He displayed don’t-give-up trait even as a 4-5 yrs old boy and has retained it till now. Richard Branson says family should be given utmost importance. But while reading through his stories I felt he did not stick to his own principles at times. He had 2 kids and wife to take care of and yet to prove himself he accepted the foolhardy challenge to cross Atlantic Ocean on the gas balloon. He has taken lots of risks in life and many were to prove ppl wrong who had challenged him that he cannot do it. His mom had the same can-do characteristic and he has exemplified how she got into 2 jobs in spite of all odds. But weren’t they the wrong examples? Hello!!! She got both the jobs by dishonesty. If you have to compromise your honesty to do what you want to do, won’t you rather not do it? Ok, even if you do it.. at least don’t consider it as an ideal example! Anyways, lessons from this book cannot be totally neglected. His experiences can teach you a lot.

The aversive thing of this book is the typo! Looks like somebody did not do their job well in editing it. There are many gaffes which could have brought into notice even in one read. There are lots of spelling mistakes or missing characters and at places even the names of individuals are starting with small letter instead of capital.

Except for few glitches I guess this book is an ok read.