Gave this book a try but overall didn’t enjoy it. Was hoping to enjoy it more then I did which was unfortunate

I am a fan of Matthew Del Negro as an actor. I was not familiar with his podcast but when I saw he wrote a book I wanted to read it right away. I got approved to read it through NetGalley but unfortunately the download didn't work so I waited until it was released.

10,000 Nos is a book about succeeding no matter what life throws at you. We all face challenges but it's how you overcome those challenges that is important. I still haven't listened to the podcast but it sounded like he gathered all the information he has gathered from different people over the years to help show the reader how to rise above rejection and turn a "no" into a "yes". In that regard, the book was very good. Del Negro does a good job of this and shares a number of stories from those he has interviewed, I personally was hoping for some more information about him and stories from working as an actor but that is just because I like him so much as an actor!

10,000 Nos: How to Overcome Rejection on the Way to Your YES by Matthew Del Negro
Narrated by Matthew Del Negro
Publisher: RB Media, Gildan Media
Genre: Business & Investing | Self-Help
Publication Date: March 30, 2021

10,000 Nos: How to Overcome Rejection on the Way to Your YES by Matthew Del Negro is a personal development/memoir.

I had not previously heard of the author and did not know he had a podcast (10,000 Nos). I think that detracted from my enjoyment of the book some.

The narration was good. The author has a pleasant voice and intonation. There were some weird parts, such as when the author was reading quotes. This might actually work better as a physical read.

I found the book to be an interesting retelling of the author's journey to success.

I'm so grateful to Matthew Del Negro, RB Media, Gildan Media, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

It is hard for me to review and rate this audiobook, as I expected something else, something more business-oriented. When I requested this audiobook, I didn't know the author Matthew Del Negro or his podcast 10000 NOs. It was just the business specter of this audiobook that attracted me.

So I would rate this with three stars because it wasn't bad. But I was having trouble following it because it wasn't something I wanted to listen to at the time. I will give this audiobook another try in the future.

Thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to listen to this! All opinions are my own.

In advance, big fan of the 10,000 Nos podcast, love the content and the range of topics that get addressed on the cast, which in turn, makes the following review difficult to deliver.

I haven't read the 10,000 Nos book, but I suspect that it reads precisely as the audiobook narrates, and that was the issue that I had. Matt sounds like he's reading from the book directly, including the quotes, but there's no delineation between the parts where he's reading about what he's telling you, and then in the next sentence, reading from a quote from one of the people who has been on the podcast.

This may not seem to be a serious issue, but if you're listening to something about improving yourself and the narrator suddenly goes on to relate the time when he put a gun in his mouth, only to say, at the end of that anecdote, that it is attributed to a marine who had been depressed. I understand why those quotes are in the book, and I can see entirely why you'd put them in there as examples of people overcoming dire circumstance to do better with their lives, but the anecdotes happen on a regular basis, and that serves as a distraction when you're getting into the main material.

The Audiobook that I was sent didn't have any indexing to it, all the chapters are called "10,000Nos", so you can't reference a particular part of it if that's what you're looking for guidance upon, and if you switch between audiobooks at any point, you need to remember the chapter number that you were on, rather than remembering the subject Matt was talking about.

The information within the book is solid, all good advice, all well annotated and referenced with examples from other people of how it works, but because of the disjointed way and frequency in which those distractions occur, my attention was continually diverted from what I was listening to, which impacted my enjoyment of the audiobook far more than I would have thought that it would.

I strongly suspect I'd have given five stars to the book, but I couldn't get into this presentation, this isn't the 10,001 No, but I enjoy the podcast far more than I did this. 3/5 for the presentation, 5/5 for the content, averaging 4/5 for the total.