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Your Greatest Power
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73 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1953
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J. Martin Kohe
5 books6 followersJ. Martin Kohe is best known for his work as an author and psychologist. His works include three books and a record. Dr. Kohe's most popular book, YOUR GREATEST POWER, has sold over 250,000 copies. His record HOW TO OVERCOME DISCOURAGEMENT includes a lecture on ten ways to deal with inevitable discouragement. Dr Kohe began his adult life as a lawyer, but gave up his practice to pursue a degree in psychology from Baldwin-Wallace College.
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February 24, 2022
Should Be Required Reading in Every School
This book summarizes the fundamentals of success and happiness in less than an hour. Reading and rereading this regularly will provide you the tools needed to obtain whatever you set your sites on. One key principal is eliminating want, focusing on needs and being satisfied once you reach your goals. Highly recommended.
This book summarizes the fundamentals of success and happiness in less than an hour. Reading and rereading this regularly will provide you the tools needed to obtain whatever you set your sites on. One key principal is eliminating want, focusing on needs and being satisfied once you reach your goals. Highly recommended.
May 23, 2023
The name of the book that I will be reviewing today is Your Greatest Power by J. Martin Kohe.
This author has an interesting background. He's best known as an author and psychologist. Dr. Kohe's most popular book,Your greatest power, has sold over 250,000 copies. One of his other books is How To Overcome Discouragement.
J. Martin Kohe was focusing his adult life on becoming a lawyer But gave up pursuing his dream of becoming a psychologist at Baldwin Wallace College.
I was not able to find any awards that this book or this author has won in his writing career.
I think the author's impact on the society or the community that is reading this book could be very helpful to people, knowing that they always have the power to choose and knowing that they always have a decision in whatever they want to do.
This book demonstrates what my dad taught me: you're always one decision away from greatness and one away from disaster. It exhibits that very well with the entire topic of this book.
This book was published not too long ago but still, a decent amount of time ago. It was published in 1953
The central message of the book I've already stated is that your greatest power is the power to choose what you do, it's to have a decision in things that you do in your life.
There were multiple settings in this book just because the fiction portion of this was different stories happening at different places like farms, houses, and more.
The major conflict was people not knowing what their greatest power was, not realizing that they'd had it their entire life but just not knowing that it was there, not being able to use it because they didn't know about it.
I'd say the conflict would be categorized as Man versus self or self versus self. I think that the conflict was resolved by just introducing your greatest power to yourself and figuring it out. I didn't dislike the ending. I liked it.
In my opinion, the author was talking in a casual yet informative tone. He was very descriptive when it came to writing about specific situations and creating a picture of what's happening in your head.
I think that this is the first book that challenged my opinion a lot because, in my opinion, you don't always have the power to choose because as a child your parents sometimes choose for you, Like an example is recently I just moved from California to Georgia and I didn't have a choice about it it just happened.
This book has truly sparked my inspiration, guiding me toward the path of making deliberate choices. It has empowered me to select the pursuits I truly desire and motivated me to take action in order to achieve my goals. I would recommend the book to other people just because it's a light and fast read but at the same time, it has depth and meaning to it. I think the audience that would benefit from reading this book would be early teens teenagers and early adults just because that's when you start doing more things in my opinion so knowing that you have the power to choose what you want to do could be so valuable
This author has an interesting background. He's best known as an author and psychologist. Dr. Kohe's most popular book,Your greatest power, has sold over 250,000 copies. One of his other books is How To Overcome Discouragement.
J. Martin Kohe was focusing his adult life on becoming a lawyer But gave up pursuing his dream of becoming a psychologist at Baldwin Wallace College.
I was not able to find any awards that this book or this author has won in his writing career.
I think the author's impact on the society or the community that is reading this book could be very helpful to people, knowing that they always have the power to choose and knowing that they always have a decision in whatever they want to do.
This book demonstrates what my dad taught me: you're always one decision away from greatness and one away from disaster. It exhibits that very well with the entire topic of this book.
This book was published not too long ago but still, a decent amount of time ago. It was published in 1953
The central message of the book I've already stated is that your greatest power is the power to choose what you do, it's to have a decision in things that you do in your life.
There were multiple settings in this book just because the fiction portion of this was different stories happening at different places like farms, houses, and more.
The major conflict was people not knowing what their greatest power was, not realizing that they'd had it their entire life but just not knowing that it was there, not being able to use it because they didn't know about it.
I'd say the conflict would be categorized as Man versus self or self versus self. I think that the conflict was resolved by just introducing your greatest power to yourself and figuring it out. I didn't dislike the ending. I liked it.
In my opinion, the author was talking in a casual yet informative tone. He was very descriptive when it came to writing about specific situations and creating a picture of what's happening in your head.
I think that this is the first book that challenged my opinion a lot because, in my opinion, you don't always have the power to choose because as a child your parents sometimes choose for you, Like an example is recently I just moved from California to Georgia and I didn't have a choice about it it just happened.
This book has truly sparked my inspiration, guiding me toward the path of making deliberate choices. It has empowered me to select the pursuits I truly desire and motivated me to take action in order to achieve my goals. I would recommend the book to other people just because it's a light and fast read but at the same time, it has depth and meaning to it. I think the audience that would benefit from reading this book would be early teens teenagers and early adults just because that's when you start doing more things in my opinion so knowing that you have the power to choose what you want to do could be so valuable
March 20, 2020
Inspirational Reads
Definitely a great inspirational read, the treasure map idea is awesome. I’m starting my map right away! And many other tips for other inspiring reads within the book itself.
Definitely a great inspirational read, the treasure map idea is awesome. I’m starting my map right away! And many other tips for other inspiring reads within the book itself.
March 30, 2020
We become what we think. You must read this book, your life will no be the same!
Great book, your life will not be the same. Our thought determine the outcomes in our life. Very powerful information.
Great book, your life will not be the same. Our thought determine the outcomes in our life. Very powerful information.
January 9, 2022
I found the book to repeat the same idea over and over again but in different situations and the whole idea of the book was in the back of it I stopped reading it in the middle of the book because i got bored if the same thing repeating over and over again
August 14, 2020
1.6/5 stars
Some old books are timeless and become classics. This book is just past its expiration date and smells accordingly.
Some old books are timeless and become classics. This book is just past its expiration date and smells accordingly.
January 24, 2021
Very short read, but the impact is tremendous.
February 20, 2022
This book reminds me of The Secret. I do believe we can change our world by changing our thoughts.
December 29, 2025
I gave it 2 1/2 stars. Ok.
December 30, 2023
very repetitive and antiquated examples, but reasonable ideology
February 24, 2017
This is a sermon and not a business book!
This is full of really bad ideas. Lots of fuzzy pseudo "information" and parables.
Nothing of substance.
This is full of really bad ideas. Lots of fuzzy pseudo "information" and parables.
Nothing of substance.
February 11, 2015
While I prefer a larger sized font over the prescription-label-sized-fonts that some books use, and while I appreciate concise discussions more than rambling, verbose texts, this book, “Your Greatest Power,” has barely “enough” to make it onto my “good” list.
Granted, the cover of the book does say, “Thirty minutes reading this inspirational classic….”, so it should come as no surprise that there is not a whole lot of physical ink on the pages; however, calling this book an “Inspirational Classic” is a stretch as far as I’m concerned. Yes, the message it contains is worth reading, worth repeating, and worth applying in your life, so all is not lost; however, at a cost of $12.95 I am inclined to say that people would get more value from many of the other superb books that the Napoleon Hill Foundation offers or from many of the other highly rated, self-help/personal transformation books in this genre.
What message does this book contain that still makes the material worth reading? The message is that we always have the power to choose and it is the choices we make that will determine our degree of happiness and success in life. Basically, the book provides some stories and some insights into the fact that NO MATTER WHAT happens to us outside, we control what happens inside. There is really no discussion on how to control what happens inside; the premise is simply that choice is the key to our life. Choose to be happy, choose to be kind, choose to be grateful etc.
And, after having read this review, you can choose to buy another book, or not.
Granted, the cover of the book does say, “Thirty minutes reading this inspirational classic….”, so it should come as no surprise that there is not a whole lot of physical ink on the pages; however, calling this book an “Inspirational Classic” is a stretch as far as I’m concerned. Yes, the message it contains is worth reading, worth repeating, and worth applying in your life, so all is not lost; however, at a cost of $12.95 I am inclined to say that people would get more value from many of the other superb books that the Napoleon Hill Foundation offers or from many of the other highly rated, self-help/personal transformation books in this genre.
What message does this book contain that still makes the material worth reading? The message is that we always have the power to choose and it is the choices we make that will determine our degree of happiness and success in life. Basically, the book provides some stories and some insights into the fact that NO MATTER WHAT happens to us outside, we control what happens inside. There is really no discussion on how to control what happens inside; the premise is simply that choice is the key to our life. Choose to be happy, choose to be kind, choose to be grateful etc.
And, after having read this review, you can choose to buy another book, or not.
May 31, 2015
Simple point; powerful at times. The book bored me with its painful redundancy.
January 3, 2016
So redundant. Too many anecdotes. Excellent point that could've been stated more effectively in one strong paragraph.
March 10, 2015
short and gives a power to choose
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