Review of The Slight Edge

Personal development expert Jeff Olson focuses his bestselling manual on helping you recognize and develop your “slight edge” to build better habits. His approach may be familiar to readers who have dipped into other books on setting goals and changing your life. Olson refers to some of them and retells stories from others. Since part of his message is that you already know most of what you should do and you just need to do it, his reliance on reviewing known information isn’t that great a problem. Olson makes his message fresh and promising. He writes clearly, and presents his ideas and his explanations of how to manifest them in accessible prose. This expanded reissue of the original edition includes personal stories from readers of his earlier, briefer version. Hearing from those who found that his work made a significant, positive difference in their lives makes Olson more immediate and even more credible.