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Hell Week: seven days to be your best self
Imagine your life as a straight line. Now imagine that you could break that line and leave behind all your regular habits and nagging doubts for just seven days. Hell Week shows how you can change your life's path in a single week, replacing your old self with your best self, by going through a specially tailored (and totally safe) version of the elite military exercise where participants are pushed to the limit to find out just how much they can take. Hell Week is about defeating limiting beliefs and demonstrating that you are capable of far more than you ever thought - and maintaining that level of performance for the rest of your life.
Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, a successful entrepreneur, and a mental coach. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft and Stat Oil executives and Olympic medalists Martin Sundby and Suzann Pettersen. His life altering method improves performance by getting people to push themselves past the brink of self-imposed limitations.
Central to his technique is the commitment by clients to live and experience just one week as their best selves. It's this week, Larssen says, that will be the catalyst to making the most of the rest of one's life. Offering accessible tools and a pragmatic, inspirational advice, Larssen's game-changing Hell Week shows readers how apply the principles of military 'hell week' to their every day lives, leading to lasting improvement, personal and professional success, and most importantly, a new way of living to a higher standard.
Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, a successful entrepreneur, and a mental coach. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft and Stat Oil executives and Olympic medalists Martin Sundby and Suzann Pettersen. His life altering method improves performance by getting people to push themselves past the brink of self-imposed limitations.
Central to his technique is the commitment by clients to live and experience just one week as their best selves. It's this week, Larssen says, that will be the catalyst to making the most of the rest of one's life. Offering accessible tools and a pragmatic, inspirational advice, Larssen's game-changing Hell Week shows readers how apply the principles of military 'hell week' to their every day lives, leading to lasting improvement, personal and professional success, and most importantly, a new way of living to a higher standard.
224 pages, Paperback
First published June 14, 2016
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Erik Bertrand Larssen
8 books72 followersErik Bertrand Larssen is a performance consultant who energizes people to think differently, embrace what he calls “emotional contrasts,” and make small adjustments to their daily actions to experience a successful career and happier life. He is the creator of The Bertrand Method.
Central to the Bertrand Method is that even subtle shifts can create big changes in your life that become habits for success. He believes that change is achievable and more possible than people imagine.
Read an excerpt from Hell Week here: https://glose.com/o/hell-week
Central to the Bertrand Method is that even subtle shifts can create big changes in your life that become habits for success. He believes that change is achievable and more possible than people imagine.
Read an excerpt from Hell Week here: https://glose.com/o/hell-week
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February 27, 2016
(this is a review of a Finnish translation)
A concept of army origin, this is a milder version of it (depending a little on the person how hard or easy, however) for the purpose of mental and physical week where one examines one's life, to see what needs to be changed, with more focus than usual. For those who feel that there's something lacking in their life, life is too samey and lacks challenges. The week will make it more likely that one can 'fish out' what improvement is needed to be the best version of oneself.
It's good to read this through first before even starting preparation, to see if one wants to do it - and if one does, one should use at least 3 weeks to prepare well. Larssen states that good preparation will make any success more likely. Some reasons to do the week are listen (to be more present, time management improvement, things will feel easier, motivation for change(s), to challenge one's limits, to appreciate small things in life, to eliminate procrastination).
Larssen has used this technique with his work with people in business, law, money world, and sports people - along with these, one notices that the family is also in its way involved in benefitting from the challenge-doer's results. They are mentioned often in the book, but even those who aren't doing these jobs and/or don't have a family/spouse will find this book quite useable. :)
Although Larssen gives many hints in how to prepare for this week - if one chooses to do it - but also reminds one that one should also add their personal rules into the main frame. The challenge is meant to be demanding and first step for future goals.
The week: no TV, minimal online-time, being focused and doing ones best at work and elsewhere, taking breaks, healthy eating and exercise.
Tools: notes already made on what one wants to improve, notemaking devices, your calendar, one reward-idea reserved for Sunday.
Themes (plus things to do and a personal quote from other people at the end of each day's text, except on Sunday):
Monday: on habits, what they are, on removing/adopting them
Tuesday: on directing moods and on concentration
Wednesday: on time management (everyday; to-do lists, why not multitasking)
Thursday: Total media-break day. On procrastination, facing fears (and facing one of them that day)
Thursday-Friday night: no sleep
Friday: on good resting methods (incl. meditation)
Saturday: on inner dialogue - towards positivity; using the day to think only positive thoughts
Sunday: reviewing the week, enjoy the chosen reward.
Larssen recommends doing this hell-week challenge yearly, and I can see that many would benefit from it (though every other year may work as well - up to the person). Even if one won't do the week (yet or ever), this book gives good hints on living one's life. Interesting, challenging, and hopefully rewarding too. (I may do this at some point.) :)
A concept of army origin, this is a milder version of it (depending a little on the person how hard or easy, however) for the purpose of mental and physical week where one examines one's life, to see what needs to be changed, with more focus than usual. For those who feel that there's something lacking in their life, life is too samey and lacks challenges. The week will make it more likely that one can 'fish out' what improvement is needed to be the best version of oneself.
It's good to read this through first before even starting preparation, to see if one wants to do it - and if one does, one should use at least 3 weeks to prepare well. Larssen states that good preparation will make any success more likely. Some reasons to do the week are listen (to be more present, time management improvement, things will feel easier, motivation for change(s), to challenge one's limits, to appreciate small things in life, to eliminate procrastination).
Larssen has used this technique with his work with people in business, law, money world, and sports people - along with these, one notices that the family is also in its way involved in benefitting from the challenge-doer's results. They are mentioned often in the book, but even those who aren't doing these jobs and/or don't have a family/spouse will find this book quite useable. :)
Although Larssen gives many hints in how to prepare for this week - if one chooses to do it - but also reminds one that one should also add their personal rules into the main frame. The challenge is meant to be demanding and first step for future goals.
The week: no TV, minimal online-time, being focused and doing ones best at work and elsewhere, taking breaks, healthy eating and exercise.
Tools: notes already made on what one wants to improve, notemaking devices, your calendar, one reward-idea reserved for Sunday.
Themes (plus things to do and a personal quote from other people at the end of each day's text, except on Sunday):
Monday: on habits, what they are, on removing/adopting them
Tuesday: on directing moods and on concentration
Wednesday: on time management (everyday; to-do lists, why not multitasking)
Thursday: Total media-break day. On procrastination, facing fears (and facing one of them that day)
Thursday-Friday night: no sleep
Friday: on good resting methods (incl. meditation)
Saturday: on inner dialogue - towards positivity; using the day to think only positive thoughts
Sunday: reviewing the week, enjoy the chosen reward.
Larssen recommends doing this hell-week challenge yearly, and I can see that many would benefit from it (though every other year may work as well - up to the person). Even if one won't do the week (yet or ever), this book gives good hints on living one's life. Interesting, challenging, and hopefully rewarding too. (I may do this at some point.) :)
April 17, 2016
Даже не знаю, что сказать. Это, наверно, десятая книга по личностному росту, которую я прочитала. И все они друг друга цитируют бесконечно. Всё сводится к тому, что живущий где-нибудь в Майями рекомендует живущему в Магадане выйти из зоны комфорта.
И моя жизнь, и жизнь многих людей, которые меня окружают во много раз менее комфортная, чем жизнь автора. Я вообще даже не могу сказать, что мы "в зоне". Нас болтает жёстко.
Поймала себя на мысли, что моя жизнь сегодня очень похожа на адскую неделю в части вызовов, борьбы со страхами, режимом дня, спортом, попытками пойти против системы и т.д.
Несмотря на то, что всё это вызвало у меня больше скепсиса, чем желания выполнять, я неделю Ада пройду. Чтобы у меня было полное право подписаться под каждым словом здесь. Я потом ещё добавлю, что это было не так сложно.
И моя жизнь, и жизнь многих людей, которые меня окружают во много раз менее комфортная, чем жизнь автора. Я вообще даже не могу сказать, что мы "в зоне". Нас болтает жёстко.
Поймала себя на мысли, что моя жизнь сегодня очень похожа на адскую неделю в части вызовов, борьбы со страхами, режимом дня, спортом, попытками пойти против системы и т.д.
Несмотря на то, что всё это вызвало у меня больше скепсиса, чем желания выполнять, я неделю Ада пройду. Чтобы у меня было полное право подписаться под каждым словом здесь. Я потом ещё добавлю, что это было не так сложно.
February 9, 2016
Вставайте в 5, а ложитесь в 10. Конец.
March 8, 2016
I would give it 5 stars for the idea of the "hell week". It's definitely worth doing, and the challenges suggested by Erik Larssen could be a great start in your path of a personal growth.
However, there is, as many have said, too much "blah-blah-blah" in this book, and the first 70-80 pages could be cut. Without a doubt, Erik Larssen is a great coach and has motivated many sportsmen and business people, but the whole concept of the "hell week" could be summarised in a 15mins TED speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROA9zV...
However, there is, as many have said, too much "blah-blah-blah" in this book, and the first 70-80 pages could be cut. Without a doubt, Erik Larssen is a great coach and has motivated many sportsmen and business people, but the whole concept of the "hell week" could be summarised in a 15mins TED speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROA9zV...
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March 23, 2016В целом очень и очень неплохая книга. Авто практик, не теоретик -- свою адскую неделю он строит на теоретических выкладках других лайф-коучей, мотивационных спикеров и психологов. Теория в книге - это выжимка из идей других авторов, включая Дахигга (про привычки), Стивена Кови (его 7 навыков) и др. Кови, кстати, я так пока и не осилила в виду его крайнего занудства, и спасибо Ларссену - он умудрился уместить идеи Кови всего в нескольких абзацах. Ноу-хау автора - в том, что он набрал коучинговых инструментов, подвел под них теоретическую базу и поставил в жесткие рамки - "адскую неделю", - в которых эти инструменты нужно применить.
Такой подход мне кажется интересным, во всяком случае - нестандартным. Звезды не ставлю пока что -- попробую на себе его методы, тогда и оценю.
Русское издание от Манна, Иванова и Фербера мне не понравилось - абзацы отделены пустой строкой, чтобы было хоть чуточку больше объема, не выровнен текст по правому краю, неряшливый вид. (А цена за эту не очень толстую книгу - довольно высокая.)
Такой подход мне кажется интересным, во всяком случае - нестандартным. Звезды не ставлю пока что -- попробую на себе его методы, тогда и оценю.
Русское издание от Манна, Иванова и Фербера мне не понравилось - абзацы отделены пустой строкой, чтобы было хоть чуточку больше объема, не выровнен текст по правому краю, неряшливый вид. (А цена за эту не очень толстую книгу - довольно высокая.)
July 25, 2016
You have to read it and change your life for the better! See you at 5 a.m.! ;)
December 15, 2020
Qua schrijfstijl niet het beste boek (het is een beetje van hak op de tak), maar wel een heel interessant en inspirerend boek. Vorige week zelf de helweek gedaan en het is erg aan te raden om dit boek tegelijkertijd te lezen.
October 7, 2018
Boken oppsummert:
1. «Helvetesuke»: Stå opp tidlig og prioriter det du må gjøre i en uke.
2. Forfatteren digger seg selv.
3. Andre digger forfatteren.
4. Forfatteren stjeler andre folks gode idéer.
1. «Helvetesuke»: Stå opp tidlig og prioriter det du må gjøre i en uke.
2. Forfatteren digger seg selv.
3. Andre digger forfatteren.
4. Forfatteren stjeler andre folks gode idéer.
April 9, 2024
"Ви можете більше, набагато більше. Не вірите? Тоді перевірте".
В принципі, вам буде достатньо прочитати вступ, де автор ділиться життєвим прикладом зі свого військового минулого: “І тут старший офіцер нашого класу взяв крейду і намалював на чистій дошці вертикальну лінію. На цій лінії він позначив числа від нуля до десяти, де нуль знизу, а десять зверху. Офіцер показав на цифру чотири і промовив "це те, на що себе вважаєте здатним ви". Потім він показав на цифру два - "Ваша мати напевне чекає від вас не більше цього". Вказівний палець піднявся до сімки - "офіцери в цій кімнаті знають, що ви здатні на більше". "А ось вам реальність - ви можете навіть більше, ніж їм здається" - палець піднявся до десятки”.
Візуалізуйте і ставте цілі по SMART, виконуйте фізичні вправи, спіть з 22:00 до 05:00. Збирайте відгук, проводьте огляд успіхів і невдач. Мрійте. Десятком слів можна підсумувати цю невелику книгу. Для мене вона виглядає більше як промо-матеріал до тренінгів від "спеціаліста з особистісного розвитку". Для того щоб ви не забули хто написав книгу, автор відмічає це майже на кожній сторінці, згадуючи своїх клієнтів. Для більших продажів загорнуто це все під пафосну назву, сім днів - сім аспектів життя, на які автор радить звернути увагу. Більшість тексту - мотиваційні фрази та цитати, здебільшого запозичені з інших книг та відомих особистостей. Часом книга навіть дратувала, та оскільки читається швидко - дочитати її до кінця не складе труднощів. На мою думку, скорочений матеріал добре підійшов би для виступу на TED, та для книги - на її сторінках замало цінного матеріалу.
Як вишеньку на торт можна додати влучну пораду, яка, ймовірно, стане в нагоді багатьом - "Вдягайтеся на ту роботу, на яку хочете, а не на ту, на яку ходите".
February 2, 2025
Self help books: The books that claim to help, but the only thing certain is that they have never helped anyone. If you need help, a self help book will not help. If it did, you had no problem to begin with.
Anyone could write a book like this. We all know what we need to improve in our lives, the problem lies in actually doing it. The book offered nothing new in terms of insight or ideas. Pretentious, while claiming not to be, repetitive with anecdotes from Bertrands time in the military and quotes from all the succesful people he has helped (many). Empty words of wisdom from movies, books and of course big business leaders and entreprenours (big surprise).
The book felt more like advertising for his own coaching programme than a book truly trying to help. But when life gets tough and you feel burnt out and you don't want to go to the airport, to fly all over the world, in your v12 700hp dreamcar, just ask yourself a productive question instead of selfloathing and turn up the volume and listen to AC/DC at full blast and your motivation is on top again.
Hopefully I have the dignity to not read anymore self help books. The future will tell if it holds true
Anyone could write a book like this. We all know what we need to improve in our lives, the problem lies in actually doing it. The book offered nothing new in terms of insight or ideas. Pretentious, while claiming not to be, repetitive with anecdotes from Bertrands time in the military and quotes from all the succesful people he has helped (many). Empty words of wisdom from movies, books and of course big business leaders and entreprenours (big surprise).
The book felt more like advertising for his own coaching programme than a book truly trying to help. But when life gets tough and you feel burnt out and you don't want to go to the airport, to fly all over the world, in your v12 700hp dreamcar, just ask yourself a productive question instead of selfloathing and turn up the volume and listen to AC/DC at full blast and your motivation is on top again.
Hopefully I have the dignity to not read anymore self help books. The future will tell if it holds true
June 20, 2019
I give 5 stars to this book, because I found it very helpful. It was minimum theory and maximum practice. The author has done good preparation making the week plan. I went through the hell week myself. I liked the discipline and the perfect planning of each activity that was to be followed: 5 am wake up, 1 hour of exercise, 1 hour of outdoor activity, no social networks, time for the hobby every day and more. I felt sometimes that there are more than 24 hours. I´ve managed to complete some things that I was not able to make myself doing for the half a year before that. I also liked the special "mental" exercises, that were there every day. It was about the inner dialog and understanding myself and my values better.
Honestly speaking, I was not able to survive a night without sleep.. I think that it is individual and not everyone can make it without harm to the health and body. So, when I do it again (and I definitely am planning to in some time), I will skip the Thursday night challenge ;)
In the meanwhile I would recommend this book for those, who want to challenge their limits and understand that we can much more than we think.
Honestly speaking, I was not able to survive a night without sleep.. I think that it is individual and not everyone can make it without harm to the health and body. So, when I do it again (and I definitely am planning to in some time), I will skip the Thursday night challenge ;)
In the meanwhile I would recommend this book for those, who want to challenge their limits and understand that we can much more than we think.
May 12, 2016
A great way of boost your motivation to change and take charge!
It was an interesting read if you want to correct some of your habits and decide to make some changes in one week. While reading this book, you receive a good kick in the derrière trough examples of people who have take the same steps as yourself.
You will have also tips and motivational quotes to boost your will to take this new step and start a program.
Like the dynamism, the positive direct talk that will not try to make it feel easy to embrace this Hell Week.
Haven't tried yet, as I wanted to finish the book first and was not able to clear my schedule but the author words have already had a postive impact on my mind.
Lucie
http://newbooksonmyselves.blogspot.fr...
It was an interesting read if you want to correct some of your habits and decide to make some changes in one week. While reading this book, you receive a good kick in the derrière trough examples of people who have take the same steps as yourself.
You will have also tips and motivational quotes to boost your will to take this new step and start a program.
Like the dynamism, the positive direct talk that will not try to make it feel easy to embrace this Hell Week.
Haven't tried yet, as I wanted to finish the book first and was not able to clear my schedule but the author words have already had a postive impact on my mind.
Lucie
http://newbooksonmyselves.blogspot.fr...
May 27, 2016
В очередной раз убеждаюсь в том, что ключевое, самое простое и главное - твое отношение к любому делу. Кажется легко и понятно ? Я бы так не сказал.
О книге: Много знакомых мне умозаключений автора я слышал из РФ тренинга "Контекст" ( советую пройти тренинг ) . Правильное отношение к делу формирует 50% успеха, дальше 25% умение и 25 % знания. Умение и знание легко получить так же формируя правильное отношение . В итоге все упирается в твое правильное "ХОЧУ". Книга расскажет о планирования дня, месяца, года. Как выделять главные цели и отбрасывать побочные, ненужные достижения.
Главное не бросать начатое, ведь нельзя за день/месяц научиться играть на фортепьяно даже если сильно хочется.
О книге: Много знакомых мне умозаключений автора я слышал из РФ тренинга "Контекст" ( советую пройти тренинг ) . Правильное отношение к делу формирует 50% успеха, дальше 25% умение и 25 % знания. Умение и знание легко получить так же формируя правильное отношение . В итоге все упирается в твое правильное "ХОЧУ". Книга расскажет о планирования дня, месяца, года. Как выделять главные цели и отбрасывать побочные, ненужные достижения.
Главное не бросать начатое, ведь нельзя за день/месяц научиться играть на фортепьяно даже если сильно хочется.
January 30, 2022
Het idee van de Helweek op zich is sterk. De doelen in dit boek ga ik dan ook een week lang volgen.
Echter is de manier waarop het geschreven is minder sterk. Veel voorbeelden die mensen buiten Noorwegen niets zeggen of gewoon simplistische platitudes. Vandaar de 2 sterren. Jammer genoeg bevestigt het daarmee de slechte naam die het genre zelfhulpboeken heeft.
Echter is de manier waarop het geschreven is minder sterk. Veel voorbeelden die mensen buiten Noorwegen niets zeggen of gewoon simplistische platitudes. Vandaar de 2 sterren. Jammer genoeg bevestigt het daarmee de slechte naam die het genre zelfhulpboeken heeft.
October 2, 2016
К неделе однажды приступлю, но сама книга слабая
September 23, 2018
Мне она показалась пустой. Вроде бы идея интересная, но мыслей полезных мало. Даже структуры мало, с которой здесь должно быть как раз особенно хорошо.
February 7, 2017
It was a nice idea to read this book.
In this book you will find an interesting idea about how to stimulate yourself to be a better person.
In order to do this author gives us an idea about hell week.
This idea was borrowed from Norwegian army and a little bit modified.
You won't need to walk across the forest during the night for example :)
However author gives you a clear explanation how to construct your own hell week.
Isn't it ironic, that you agree to have a hell week? ;)
I can suggest this book, because it gives you new view to such difficult thing like doing your best :)
In this book you will find an interesting idea about how to stimulate yourself to be a better person.
In order to do this author gives us an idea about hell week.
This idea was borrowed from Norwegian army and a little bit modified.
You won't need to walk across the forest during the night for example :)
However author gives you a clear explanation how to construct your own hell week.
Isn't it ironic, that you agree to have a hell week? ;)
I can suggest this book, because it gives you new view to such difficult thing like doing your best :)
August 21, 2017
1. Спи с 10 вечера до 5 утра.
2. Делай зарядку.
3. Думай положительные мысли.
4. Делай дела добросовествно.
5. The end.
2. Делай зарядку.
3. Думай положительные мысли.
4. Делай дела добросовествно.
5. The end.
April 28, 2020
Книга крепкая, легко читается, в ней хорошо соблюден баланс историй из жизни автора и его клиентов и размышлений на тему саморазвития и осознанности. Книга отлично заряжает и настраивает на боевой лад. И главное - дает практические советы и программу для организации эксперимента над собой. Насколько далеко простираются наши возможности? Что будет, если прожить семь дней на максимуме, на пределе того, что мы можем?
Очень похоже, что такой способ позволяет заглянуть за грань привычного. Узнать многое о себе и о мире.
Небольшой конспект понравившихся мыслей:
- подготовка решает. Великие победы свершаются только при условии самой серьезной подготовки (на всех уровнях жизни)
- визуализировать решение новых задач. Можно обмануть мозг, визуализировав сложную ситуацию, так что, столкнувшись с ней впервые (выступление на публике, питч перед инвесторами и т.д.), она будет восприниматься знакомой (т.е. внутри зоны комфорта)
- придерживаться плана, анализировать свои состояния, четко разделять роли, в которых находишься, положительный настрой (мысли не новые, но очень конкретно вписаны в практическом прикладном ключе)
- правильные вопросы себе - рычаг, который поднимет тебя в атаку при любом уровне истощения
- "надеяться" - не годится, нужно готовиться и быть уверенным
- все слова, которые мы говорим, имеют значение
Резюме: рекомендую к прочтению, и подумываю провести такой эксперимент на себе!
Очень похоже, что такой способ позволяет заглянуть за грань привычного. Узнать многое о себе и о мире.
Небольшой конспект понравившихся мыслей:
- подготовка решает. Великие победы свершаются только при условии самой серьезной подготовки (на всех уровнях жизни)
- визуализировать решение новых задач. Можно обмануть мозг, визуализировав сложную ситуацию, так что, столкнувшись с ней впервые (выступление на публике, питч перед инвесторами и т.д.), она будет восприниматься знакомой (т.е. внутри зоны комфорта)
- придерживаться плана, анализировать свои состояния, четко разделять роли, в которых находишься, положительный настрой (мысли не новые, но очень конкретно вписаны в практическом прикладном ключе)
- правильные вопросы себе - рычаг, который поднимет тебя в атаку при любом уровне истощения
- "надеяться" - не годится, нужно готовиться и быть уверенным
- все слова, которые мы говорим, имеют значение
Резюме: рекомендую к прочтению, и подумываю провести такой эксперимент на себе!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 11, 2018
I was browsing the self-help shelf at the library and among titles like "Think Positive" and "Puppies and Unicorns to Improve Your Life", a title like HELL WEEK definitely stood out.
I was impressed by the author from the first few pages. First, he was in Special Forces, so you have to respect that. Second, he had chronic debilitating pain from a car accident, had to quit his job, drop out of school, and see tons of doctors, none of whom could help him. I know enough to know that generally such stories do not end up with the person getting better and resuming a normal life. Indeed, he says that it took him eleven years to get through business school. He never mentions the pain again, and he is married and is a successful performance consultant, but my guess is that it hasn't gone away, he has trained himself to be successful despite it. So mad props there.
This book's angle is instead of gradually improving your habits and your life, take the time to plan one week to be super productive, your absolute best. And then after that you will know that you can do more than you think, so you won't have to fear failure in the same way. Obviously, the idea is taken from military training, particularly the mandate to sleep from 10pm to 5am, and to stay up all night Thursday night. But the writing is not overbearing. For instance, he can't 'kick people out," so he talks about what can be learned from failure.
I'm not going to do my own Hell Week any time soon, but I did like some of his ideas.
- From his wilderness survival teacher: on a scale of 0 to 10, you think you can take 4, your mother thinks you can take 2, your officers know you can take 7, but actually you can take more than they think. p2
- Walk or bike to work if possible. I hate biking (at least on roads with cars) but actually find walking to work pretty pleasant. I discovered that Ames has a flock of wild turkeys roaming around.
- People have different value scales, so you have to work out what you value before you can figure what to do to feel you have achieved "success."
- Tackle the big stuff first - "Front-load your day with the bigger, more demanding tasks or assignments." p83 He says it gives you momentum. I haven't really gotten momentum out of it, but at least it does get me started on things that I would usually put off.
- The idea that "rest" doesn't need to be inactivity, it can be just a change instead of activity (like leaving work and exercising.)
- "At every turn [your values] let you ask yourself, Is what I'm about to do in accordance with my values?" p185
- Contemplate death - you won't always be here.
And a couple quotes for good measure:
- "Life becomes stronger and richer when you can feel the ups and downs, and the bad feelings with the good." p24
- "The power of change resides in you making up your mind to really do it-to act as though you must." p35
So, an interesting way of looking at things.
I was impressed by the author from the first few pages. First, he was in Special Forces, so you have to respect that. Second, he had chronic debilitating pain from a car accident, had to quit his job, drop out of school, and see tons of doctors, none of whom could help him. I know enough to know that generally such stories do not end up with the person getting better and resuming a normal life. Indeed, he says that it took him eleven years to get through business school. He never mentions the pain again, and he is married and is a successful performance consultant, but my guess is that it hasn't gone away, he has trained himself to be successful despite it. So mad props there.
This book's angle is instead of gradually improving your habits and your life, take the time to plan one week to be super productive, your absolute best. And then after that you will know that you can do more than you think, so you won't have to fear failure in the same way. Obviously, the idea is taken from military training, particularly the mandate to sleep from 10pm to 5am, and to stay up all night Thursday night. But the writing is not overbearing. For instance, he can't 'kick people out," so he talks about what can be learned from failure.
I'm not going to do my own Hell Week any time soon, but I did like some of his ideas.
- From his wilderness survival teacher: on a scale of 0 to 10, you think you can take 4, your mother thinks you can take 2, your officers know you can take 7, but actually you can take more than they think. p2
- Walk or bike to work if possible. I hate biking (at least on roads with cars) but actually find walking to work pretty pleasant. I discovered that Ames has a flock of wild turkeys roaming around.
- People have different value scales, so you have to work out what you value before you can figure what to do to feel you have achieved "success."
- Tackle the big stuff first - "Front-load your day with the bigger, more demanding tasks or assignments." p83 He says it gives you momentum. I haven't really gotten momentum out of it, but at least it does get me started on things that I would usually put off.
- The idea that "rest" doesn't need to be inactivity, it can be just a change instead of activity (like leaving work and exercising.)
- "At every turn [your values] let you ask yourself, Is what I'm about to do in accordance with my values?" p185
- Contemplate death - you won't always be here.
And a couple quotes for good measure:
- "Life becomes stronger and richer when you can feel the ups and downs, and the bad feelings with the good." p24
- "The power of change resides in you making up your mind to really do it-to act as though you must." p35
So, an interesting way of looking at things.
July 16, 2020
(The English review is placed beneath Russian one)
Книга является как бы обновлённой версии классических книг по самопомощи XX века от Карнеги до Кови. Хотя слово «обновлённой», тут, возможно, даже и лишнее, ибо автор практически ничего нового и не предлагает, за исключением сидеть поменьше в социальных сетях и интернете в целом. Возможно, есть ещё какие-то советы, сделанные с учётом реалий XXI века, однако я думаю, что они такие же очевидные, как и все те, что составляют содержание книги.
Автор предлагает читателям устроить себе адскую неделю, с целью…. Честно сказать, я не совсем понял, какова цель. Ну, может с целью закалить характер или узнать свои лимиты. В любом случаи, это не важно, т.к. советы, что предлагает автор, лишь частично можно отнести к «адской недели». К примеру, автор будет подолгу рассуждать о важности полноценного сна и важности его постоянства, о здоровом питании, о визуализации и о важности давать себе время на отдых, чтобы восстановить силы и т.д. и т.п. В общем, это будет всё та же солянка, что путешествует из одной книги в другую и из одного видеоролика на YouTube в другой. Будут тут и относительно новые сове��ы, типа, не сидеть в социальных сетях, а ещё лучше полностью от них отказаться и, вроде, ходить на работу всегда в дресс-коде. Я говорю вроде, т.к. книга абсолютно не систематизированная, т.е. ощущение, что всё смешанно и перемешано, а автор просто вынимает один совет за другим. Но что ещё хуже, все советы выглядят даже не как аналог блога, а как аналог твитта (ну, или почти как твитта). Т.е. если советы тебя сразу не впечатляют, то через секунду ты о них уже забываешь, настолько они непримечательны и короткие.
Отдельно хочется сказать о наличии воды, которая начинается практически сразу. Лично мне показалось, что наличие первых несколько глав (про личные проблемы автора и про два типа подготовки, т.е. обычную и психологическую), тут явно были лишними.
В общем, если очень условно, то автор предлагает, во-первых, довести себя до предела возможностей, как то: если занимаешься спортом, то тратить на него на четверть времени больше и если устал и хочется полежать, то нужно заставлять себя идти в спортзал или на тренировку или на пробежку, а не ложиться на диван и смотреть телевизор. В целом – здраво, кто-то может подумать. Однако я, как человек, который уже несколько лет занимается фитнесом на каждодневной основе, могу точно сказать, что такие адские недели могут отбить у вас желание заниматься спортом и во-вторых, в том же фитнесе важно не длительность, а постоянство. Лучше немного, но каждый день, чем один раз, но на весь месяц. Это говорят все тренеры по фитнесу. Так что вся эта концепция с «адовой неделей», мне абсолютно чужда и более того, кажется ошибочной. И во-вторых, советы, тип которых я описал выше, можно найти в каждой книге/статье/видеоролике по здоровому образу жизни. Если бы автор их как-то по-новому преподнёс, было бы намного лучше, но он же ничего от себя нового не добавляет, всё чистое «ctrl+c». К третьим можно отнести истории или примеры из жизни, но мне они также показались кислыми и не интересными.
This book is a kind of an updated version of the classic 20th-century self-help books, from Carnegie to Covie. Although, the word "updated" is perhaps even superfluous, as the author offers almost nothing new, except to be less active on social networks and the Internet in general. Possibly there are some other pieces of advice made with the realities of the 21st century in mind, but I think they are as self-evident as all those that make up the content of the book.
The author invites readers to have a "hell of a week," with the aim... Honestly, I don't quite understand what the purpose is. Well, maybe to temper one's character or to know one's limits. In any case, it does not matter, because the advice that the author offers, only partially can be attributed to the "Hell Week." For example, the author will talk for a long time about the importance of good sleep and the importance of its constancy, about healthy eating, about visualization and the importance of giving yourself time to rest to recover, etc., etc. In general, it will be the same solyanka that travels from one book to another and from one YouTube video to another. There will be relatively new tips, such as avoiding social media or to completely abandon them plus, always go to work in the dress code. I'm saying-like because the book is not systematized, i.e., it feels like everything is mixed, and the author merely takes out one piece of advice after another. But what's worse, all the tips do not even look like a blog, but like a tweet. That is, if the tips do not impress you at once, then a second later, you forget about them, they are so unremarkable and short.
Separately, I would like to say about the presence of empty words, which begins almost immediately. Personally, it seemed to me that the first few chapters (about the personal problems of the author and the two types of training, i.e., the common and psychological ones), were unnecessary.
In general, if very rough, the author suggests, first, to bring yourself to the limit of possibilities, as follows: if you are engaged in sports, then spend on it a quarter of time more and, if you are tired and want to lie down, it is necessary to force yourself to go to the gym or training or a run, instead of to lie down on a sofa and watch TV. In general, it's sound, somebody can think. However, I, as a person who has been practicing fitness daily for several years now, can say that such hellish weeks can discourage your desire to go in for sports, and secondly, in the case of fitness, it is essential not to make it long, but constant. It' s better to do it a little, but every day than once, but only once in a month. That's what all the fitness coaches say. So this whole concept with the "hell week" is alien to me, and moreover, it seems wrong to me. And secondly, the tips I described above can be found in every book/article/video about a healthy lifestyle. If the author had presented them somehow in a new way, it would be much better, but he does not add anything new from himself. The third is stories or examples from life, but I also found them sour and not engaging.
Книга является как бы обновлённой версии классических книг по самопомощи XX века от Карнеги до Кови. Хотя слово «обновлённой», тут, возможно, даже и лишнее, ибо автор практически ничего нового и не предлагает, за исключением сидеть поменьше в социальных сетях и интернете в целом. Возможно, есть ещё какие-то советы, сделанные с учётом реалий XXI века, однако я думаю, что они такие же очевидные, как и все те, что составляют содержание книги.
Автор предлагает читателям устроить себе адскую неделю, с целью…. Честно сказать, я не совсем понял, какова цель. Ну, может с целью закалить характер или узнать свои лимиты. В любом случаи, это не важно, т.к. советы, что предлагает автор, лишь частично можно отнести к «адской недели». К примеру, автор будет подолгу рассуждать о важности полноценного сна и важности его постоянства, о здоровом питании, о визуализации и о важности давать себе время на отдых, чтобы восстановить силы и т.д. и т.п. В общем, это будет всё та же солянка, что путешествует из одной книги в другую и из одного видеоролика на YouTube в другой. Будут тут и относительно новые сове��ы, типа, не сидеть в социальных сетях, а ещё лучше полностью от них отказаться и, вроде, ходить на работу всегда в дресс-коде. Я говорю вроде, т.к. книга абсолютно не систематизированная, т.е. ощущение, что всё смешанно и перемешано, а автор просто вынимает один совет за другим. Но что ещё хуже, все советы выглядят даже не как аналог блога, а как аналог твитта (ну, или почти как твитта). Т.е. если советы тебя сразу не впечатляют, то через секунду ты о них уже забываешь, настолько они непримечательны и короткие.
Отдельно хочется сказать о наличии воды, которая начинается практически сразу. Лично мне показалось, что наличие первых несколько глав (про личные проблемы автора и про два типа подготовки, т.е. обычную и психологическую), тут явно были лишними.
В общем, если очень условно, то автор предлагает, во-первых, довести себя до предела возможностей, как то: если занимаешься спортом, то тратить на него на четверть времени больше и если устал и хочется полежать, то нужно заставлять себя идти в спортзал или на тренировку или на пробежку, а не ложиться на диван и смотреть телевизор. В целом – здраво, кто-то может подумать. Однако я, как человек, который уже несколько лет занимается фитнесом на каждодневной основе, могу точно сказать, что такие адские недели могут отбить у вас желание заниматься спортом и во-вторых, в том же фитнесе важно не длительность, а постоянство. Лучше немного, но каждый день, чем один раз, но на весь месяц. Это говорят все тренеры по фитнесу. Так что вся эта концепция с «адовой неделей», мне абсолютно чужда и более того, кажется ошибочной. И во-вторых, советы, тип которых я описал выше, можно найти в каждой книге/статье/видеоролике по здоровому образу жизни. Если бы автор их как-то по-новому преподнёс, было бы намного лучше, но он же ничего от себя нового не добавляет, всё чистое «ctrl+c». К третьим можно отнести истории или примеры из жизни, но мне они также показались кислыми и не интересными.
This book is a kind of an updated version of the classic 20th-century self-help books, from Carnegie to Covie. Although, the word "updated" is perhaps even superfluous, as the author offers almost nothing new, except to be less active on social networks and the Internet in general. Possibly there are some other pieces of advice made with the realities of the 21st century in mind, but I think they are as self-evident as all those that make up the content of the book.
The author invites readers to have a "hell of a week," with the aim... Honestly, I don't quite understand what the purpose is. Well, maybe to temper one's character or to know one's limits. In any case, it does not matter, because the advice that the author offers, only partially can be attributed to the "Hell Week." For example, the author will talk for a long time about the importance of good sleep and the importance of its constancy, about healthy eating, about visualization and the importance of giving yourself time to rest to recover, etc., etc. In general, it will be the same solyanka that travels from one book to another and from one YouTube video to another. There will be relatively new tips, such as avoiding social media or to completely abandon them plus, always go to work in the dress code. I'm saying-like because the book is not systematized, i.e., it feels like everything is mixed, and the author merely takes out one piece of advice after another. But what's worse, all the tips do not even look like a blog, but like a tweet. That is, if the tips do not impress you at once, then a second later, you forget about them, they are so unremarkable and short.
Separately, I would like to say about the presence of empty words, which begins almost immediately. Personally, it seemed to me that the first few chapters (about the personal problems of the author and the two types of training, i.e., the common and psychological ones), were unnecessary.
In general, if very rough, the author suggests, first, to bring yourself to the limit of possibilities, as follows: if you are engaged in sports, then spend on it a quarter of time more and, if you are tired and want to lie down, it is necessary to force yourself to go to the gym or training or a run, instead of to lie down on a sofa and watch TV. In general, it's sound, somebody can think. However, I, as a person who has been practicing fitness daily for several years now, can say that such hellish weeks can discourage your desire to go in for sports, and secondly, in the case of fitness, it is essential not to make it long, but constant. It' s better to do it a little, but every day than once, but only once in a month. That's what all the fitness coaches say. So this whole concept with the "hell week" is alien to me, and moreover, it seems wrong to me. And secondly, the tips I described above can be found in every book/article/video about a healthy lifestyle. If the author had presented them somehow in a new way, it would be much better, but he does not add anything new from himself. The third is stories or examples from life, but I also found them sour and not engaging.
August 6, 2019
Larssen maakt met dit boek een krachtig betoog om eens een week lang flink door te akkeren met taken, goed naar jezelf te kijken, en je grenzen te verkennen. Variatie is goed voor de mens, en een helweek die er voor zorgt dat je het gevoel krijgt dat je ècht wat bereikt hebt, is daar een zeer geslaagde variant van.
Het is leuk om van verschillende soorten mensen ervaringen met de helweek te lezen en om ook een kijkje in de keuken bij Larssen zelf te krijgen. Zijn hands-on, no-nonsense attitude straalt echt uit het hele boek en natuurlijk het onderwerp. Hij schuwt meditatie en 'alternatieve' zaken absoluut niet, maar is hier gewoon heel nuchter en realistisch over. Het zijn tools waarvan aangetoond is dat het werkt. Punt. Anderen hangen er misschien spirituele dingen aan vast, wat ten dele het zweverige imago van deze technieken heeft veroorzaakt, maar als je naar het effect kijkt, is het niet meer dan een middel om iets te bereiken.
Ik heb ingepland om later dit jaar ook daadwerkelijk een helweek te doen, en zal dan met veel plezier (en waarschijnlijk een hogere intensiteit) dit boek opnieuw lezen.
Het is leuk om van verschillende soorten mensen ervaringen met de helweek te lezen en om ook een kijkje in de keuken bij Larssen zelf te krijgen. Zijn hands-on, no-nonsense attitude straalt echt uit het hele boek en natuurlijk het onderwerp. Hij schuwt meditatie en 'alternatieve' zaken absoluut niet, maar is hier gewoon heel nuchter en realistisch over. Het zijn tools waarvan aangetoond is dat het werkt. Punt. Anderen hangen er misschien spirituele dingen aan vast, wat ten dele het zweverige imago van deze technieken heeft veroorzaakt, maar als je naar het effect kijkt, is het niet meer dan een middel om iets te bereiken.
Ik heb ingepland om later dit jaar ook daadwerkelijk een helweek te doen, en zal dan met veel plezier (en waarschijnlijk een hogere intensiteit) dit boek opnieuw lezen.
September 1, 2019
Can you change your life in one week? Maybe not, but after completing Hell Week, you'll realise you are stronger and more resilient than you were giving yourself credit for and more committed to making the right changes in your life.
Drawn from his experiences in the Norwegian Army, Hell Week is a 7 day challenge (duh!) that helps you re-evaluate your goals and create the right habits to accomplish them. Each day, you'll be focusing on a different area of your life:
Monday: how to adopt good habits and get rid of bad ones
Tuesday: how to manage your moods
Wednesday: how to manage your time and be more productive
Thursday: how to stop procrastinating. You'll also go one day without media and one night without sleep.
Friday: how to get rest and meditate
Saturday: how to improve your self-dialogue
Sunday: review your week
These challenges are tough, but if you can complete them, you'll find them nothing is impossible. And that's the whole point: to make you believe in your self, develop grit and dropping all excuses so you can finally become the best version of yourself.
Drawn from his experiences in the Norwegian Army, Hell Week is a 7 day challenge (duh!) that helps you re-evaluate your goals and create the right habits to accomplish them. Each day, you'll be focusing on a different area of your life:
Monday: how to adopt good habits and get rid of bad ones
Tuesday: how to manage your moods
Wednesday: how to manage your time and be more productive
Thursday: how to stop procrastinating. You'll also go one day without media and one night without sleep.
Friday: how to get rest and meditate
Saturday: how to improve your self-dialogue
Sunday: review your week
These challenges are tough, but if you can complete them, you'll find them nothing is impossible. And that's the whole point: to make you believe in your self, develop grit and dropping all excuses so you can finally become the best version of yourself.
October 10, 2018
Jeg må innrømme å ha blitt veldig revet med av denne boka. Bertrands bok har en utrolig god struktur og er veldig lettlest. Det hjelper også at boka har avbrekk med gode og inspirerende sitater fra kjente og suksessrike personer, og at han ofte kommer med gode eksempler og historier fra virkeligheten. Han kommer med mange kloke ord og får meg til å sitte igjen med en følelse av at jeg kan få til hva som helst dersom jeg bare endrer litt på vaner, fokus, disponerer tiden min godt, tenker positivt og gir meg selv tid til å filosofere litt over livet. Jeg kjenner meg veldig motivert til å skape min egen helevetesuke, og jeg er ikke i tvil om at den kan gi meg nye perspektiver.
May 13, 2021
This book contains excellent tips to improve yourself, such as structured planning, setting concrete goals, asking for feedback and many more. You could however argue that this book is mostly aimed at making the biggest amounts of money and winning the most competitions, while that might not be what makes us actually happy. The writer is not afraid to admit that the challenge itself comes from the military. The challenge could be benificial to do nonetheless, but you dont need to wake up at 5 am and skip a night to become happy.
March 24, 2016
Mən başqasının çətin, keşməkeşli həyatına, səhvlərinə baxıb dərs çıxaran biri deyiləm. Kiminsə uğurlarına qulaq verib qarşımda yol, məqsəd də müəyyən etməyəcəm. Özümü dəyişmək üçün birinci günlər.. özümü dəyişmək nədir, siz allah? yox bir. Haçandan səhər 5-də durmaq, rejimə düşmək özünü dəyişmək olub? Kitabda bilirsiz nə deyir? bir biznesmen bütün həftəni evdə oturub, telefonu söndürüb və özünü ATA kimi hiss edib? söhbəti tutursuz?
oxumuyun belə şeylər.
oxumuyun belə şeylər.
October 12, 2019
I was expecting way more from this book. But more I read about the "hell" week, the more I understood that my normal life is hell in author's definition.
But I just happened to live so historically or have chosen to grow myself in this way.
So it is rather a very useful book if you know that you have had a very comfortable privileged life and suddenly you need to put yourself through suffering to grow
But I just happened to live so historically or have chosen to grow myself in this way.
So it is rather a very useful book if you know that you have had a very comfortable privileged life and suddenly you need to put yourself through suffering to grow
October 28, 2016
Actually, this book is essential. It reminds of all the things that one should pay attention to in order to be his best self. There are no discoveries in it as such, because I'm certain everybody knows about their little defaults and things that could be done much better than they have been done before.
Planning to set an experiment with myself soon.
Planning to set an experiment with myself soon.
August 29, 2018
Одразу зізнаюсь, що пекельного тижня я не проходив. Вирішив спочатку прочитати книжку і почувши аргументи автора зробити висновок. Деякі поради дуже цікаві і збираюсь їх використати, але деякі викликають сумніви. Але можливо це тому, що я не пройшов пекельного тижня, тож мабуть таки варто це зробити, щоб краще зрозуміти свої можливості.
March 18, 2018
yes I can! I've done this twice already and want to do it every year to learn something new every time. truly inspirational and I think everyone should at least try it once. I know it sounds hard but in the end, it's just 7 days of your life. think about it.. and then just just do it.
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