The Bravest You caught my attention because I struggle with fear in my daily life. Adam Kirk Smiths Walks you through behaviors and thought processes that lead you to fear in aims of helping you get over these fears.
The first few chapters were helpful. There were a couple of activities and some questions to help me take inventory. These gave me some insight on where I am in my life and where I want to go. But the following chapters turn into every other self help book I've ever read.
Like many of these books, the chapters are peppered with stories of CEO and famous people who over came there fears in a way to motivate you. Each chapter is based on a psychological idea of fear such as fear of failing. But the advice is show you thought patterns and tells you to change them. It does not give any advice on how to change them for the most part (the one that comes to mind is research your goals to prepare yourself). So I found the rest of the book not very helpful as I need ways to help me change my thought patterns.
I gave it three stars because I did get something from this book but overall it is not as helpful as I would have liked.

A rambling tour of various cognitive and emotional strategies to confront and overcome fear and become an effective person. There is nothing new here, but plenty I was happy to be reminded of. I think the best feature of the book is that Adam has a fairly balanced view, if you read the book in its entirety, of what goes into a real, workable life worth living. He's not all the way on one end or the other of entrepreneurship, family, etc.

It's kind of heartbreaking to read the sections where he talks about how hard he worked on rethinking, writing, editing this book. It is NOT a finished book, from copyediting to high-level structure. It is VERY rambling.

For the purpose of this book, it was brilliant. I have struggled with anxiety and fear of change. Reading this book gave me some tools I could use to overcome and become the person I want to be. I loved that it wasn't long winded and was broken down into 5 steps. These steps were detailed and gave plenty for the reader to think on and act on.

I really wanted to be inspired by this book, but it wasn't for me. There are some good points/ideas in the book, but they are well hidden. The book read more like an idea stage draft than a final product. There are a lot of examples where some are unnecessary and most aren't detailed enough to be inspirational. Some of the examples I did enjoy, but unfortunately there wasn't anything to ignite my passion in this book.

This book wasn't what I thought it was going to me. It seems geared toward entrepreneurs or rather than people a book to help people overcome fears. I don't feel I can give this an accurate review.

A NetGalley e-book in exchange for an honest review.

I think this is a great self-help book for those that think they are stuck in a rut. I pretty much have the same day Monday-Friday, with dinner being the main point of change. I am not unhappy with my life but there are definite days where I ask myself, why am I not doing more?

I like the workbook style of the authors narration. The pointed questions to get you as the reader thinking about your life in relation to what is being discussed in the current chapter.

I did wish there were more real life examples. The author did play it safe and used very well-known public figures and not always recent ones.

I liked the authors different take on bravery, that it can even be found in the smallest of actions. When I was pre-high school I was terrified of people. I was overboard shy and only talked and felt comfortable around people that I had known a long time. I was told to make an effort by my English teacher to just smile at one person every day. It was a huge thing for me at that time since I only stared at my feet or my book. She helped me see that being brave is more than running into battle and this book made me think of the same thing.

Title: The Bravest You
Author: Adam K. Smith
Publisher: Tarcherperigee
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:

"The Bravest You" by Adam K. Smith

My Thoughts.....

'The Bravest You' will give the reader a good self help read as one gets a little bit of it all being so intelligently presented and so well persuasive giving the reader some deep insight of this read. We find fro the read that this author presents to the readers 'Five Steps to Fight Your Biggest Fears, Find Your Passion and Unlock Your Extraordinary Life. 'Is this a encouragement and self help read? Yes, although some of the read may not be relatable for all there are some topics that could be for others that can help through 'research, quotes and examples of some famous people.' I found from the read if ones has the courage to keep moving forward their greatest fears and challenges often leads one to their greatest talents and joys after all is said and done. The author goes on to give the reader experiences but I was not really sure it would relate to the every person, however, it was still a interesting read to see what points this author is making to the reader. In the last part of the read as the author gives some of his personal experiences it did make some interesting points of his subject matter...'The Bravest You.'

Self help book on improving your life by confronting and understanding fears.

Help yourself, in order to help others. This book is all about how to help self. The content includes chapters on about various types of fear that inhibit abilities and achieving goals. Everyone has some degree of fear, it just the matter of recognizing and overcoming fear. The fear of uncertainty, failure, rejection, change, being judged or losing control--just some examples of what is discussed in the book. There are examples and recommendations of how to overcome these crippling barriers in order to become happy.