Who Wil Cry When You Die - Book Review - Robin Sharma - June Book Haul by Kuntal Dhara

 Who Wil Cry When You Die - Book Review - Robin Sharma - June Book Haul by Kuntal Dhara

An honest & practical review

Have you ever asked yourself who will cry when you die? Here Robin Sharma asks you. And in this whole book, he goes on to tell why this question is so important to ask. This book is a very potent book. The book is very short and it has many short chapters. So you can cover this book very easily. However, I have to say that this is one of the most impactful self-help books that I've ever read. Here in this blog, we will discuss different aspects of this book, what is inside the book, what I've learnt from the book, what I loved and hated about this book and many other topics. So stay tuned...:-)

Origin of the book:

Robin Sharma is the best selling author and 'a globally respected humanitarian'. He has written many best-selling books including The Greatness Guide, The Leader Who Had No Title, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, The 5AM Club and many others. This book, ''Who will Cry When You Die?'' is an extension of his best-seller "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". The book also has the subtitle- "Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari".

So Robin Sharma has crafted this book with the life lessons that were taught in his previous work, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. He has collected the big ideas from his previous book and put them together in very tiny chapters that are so handy to read. Who Will Cry When You Die was originally published in 1999. And since then it is an international superhit.

Structure of the book:

As I said earlier, the book is made up of many small bite-sized chapters that are very easy to go through. The book has a preface at its beginning and has 101 small chapters. Ask me why 101 and not 100? I know the answer babe. Actually, the book has 100 chapters, but Robin Sharma always told us to work extra. In his many, seminars and books he urged us to serve better and more than no one is doing. He had told that "give people something extra that they are not expecting anyway". "Go an extra mile." This is why the book has 100 chapters and one bonus total of 101 chapters, this is a small gift to his readers.

All the chapters have very catchy names like 'Talk to Yourself', 'Care for the Temple', 'Create a Love Account', 'Learn How to Walk' and so on. All the chapters are merely one to two pages long. Every chapters pf this book is full of quotations. From Ashleigh Brilliant to Mother Teresa to Gandhi to Da Vinci to Stephen Hawking and so on. This is the result of Robin's reading of numerous autobiographies of great people. The book has 225 pages(Jaico version).

What's inside?

I bought the book back in August of 2019, and it took me a little more than one year to finish this book. Though the chapters are very tiny pieces of advice, they are potent enough to consume a lot of energy and attention. Each chapter demands great focus and thinking. If you want to fast-read the book, it may take you only a week to complete but if you seriously go through the book you can not ignore the energy it releases. So be very careful. This book is not something that you read and throw away. This book needs your full attention.

You read one chapter and just think about it. Think about it for a week or month and then try to practically execute the idea into your life. Think as much as possible. Who Will Cry When You Die is not a quiz book! If you are not prepared to bring your thoughts and mindset to the next level, you should not try this book, because it needs a certain level of maturity.

Inside the book, you will get various chapters that cover various topics. Robin actually touches all the aspects that can help you be the best version of yourself. Let's talk about some major themes of the book( otherwise the blog will be too long).

Robin imposes a great value on physical training. He says that "today we live in a world where your energy is more valuable than your intellect." We need to make our bodies as fit as possible. Because ultimately a leader is the source of energy. If you are not totally fit how will you deliver great services to other people?

So exercise daily, move your body, sweat more, so that you can be fit to fight all day. If you are not healthy you can not handle the massive stress over your mind and body. Because doing huge things needs huge efforts, both mental and physical. So we need to be absolutely prepared at the level of our body. And keeping our health fit and fine must be our topmost priority. Throughout the whole book, Robin shares various chapters on this theme; he tells us to wake up early, walk in the woods, drink fruit juice, have quality sleep and other useful methods.

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Organizing things is very important. Because unless you declutter your physical space, you can not expect mental or emotional wellbeing.

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The other thing is writing. Basically, the author suggests that writing down our ideas that run very fast through our minds is a great way to understand ourselves. Writing also means deconstructing our thoughts and ideas, which helps us to further analyze and study our own minds. He gives importance to the thing. He gives multiple chapters like keep a journal, schedule your worry breaks, write thank you notes, collect quotes and others. In Who Will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma explores the themes of writing, organizing, being minimal, schedule everything, plan everything, deconstruct ideas and more. 

Through these insights Robin Sharma tries to convey the idea that writing is very powerful and organizing your thoughts, ideas, plans can help you grow exponentially. Organizing things is very important. Because unless you declutter your physical space, you can not expect mental or emotional wellbeing.

At the same time he put value to creativity over everything. Here I creativity means all the apparently stupid staffs you can do. These apparently stupid jobs will lead us to our highest potential. You can explore this theme in various chapters like talk to yourself, cure your monkey mind, daily code of conduct and many more. We live in the world and it is not only our opportunity but also it is our responsibility to serve the world with our creative ideas and power. And when you balance organizing and doing creative staffs is the moment when the magic happens. You grow.

In this very book, there are several methods that can be implemented very practically in life. Because the chapters are very tiny, they are very useful. I read one or two chapters of the book then I tried to implement the theory in my life. I used some time to understand the lesson properly. For next few days I only tried to execute them in my day-to-day life. Then I moved to the next few chapters. And that is how I completed the book. There are many other aspects of this book, but not willing to describe all, otherwise the blog will be huge.

Read a review on December: Poems by a Teen here

How this book changed my life!

Who Will Cry When You Die by Robin Sharma is one of the most influential books I've ever read so far. And also this one was the first self-help book that I read seriously investing lots of time. So is this book even worthy to read? And how this single book helped to change my perspective? Let us discuss this in brief.

In 2019, I bought this book from Amazon.in and I started reading this book. I tried to go through as fast as I can but I realized that this book is so potent that I can not go through very fast. I have to read a small part and then I have to think deeply to understand the meaning. So I started reading very slow and the magic happened. It changed the way I used to think. And the first and most important thing is that when I started reading this book I became so very calm and composed you can not believe it. The book helped a lot to calm down my monstrous thoughts that used to run through my mind all time. And it also stabilized my whole body and mentality. I don't know how this happened. But it helped. I can say that this book really helped me to control my body and mind for a better understanding of life.

Secondly, reading this book made me more strategic. I learnt how to plan every single day because collective every day makes a week, weeks make a month and months make a year. So we need to be absolutely clear about what we are going to do with our days. That will create our future.

After reading this book, my life was not the same anymore. I feel more mature. And I am now calmer and composed in any hard situations. 

 

Bad things about the book?

I've read such reviews where people are saying: "Robin Sharma used quotes all around the book(all his favourite quotes)." But what is the problem man!!!! He used a lot of quotes...what is the problem in it? Our focus is on how we can use and utilize the book or get inspired by the quotes. How mentioning quotes, books, certain authors can disturb you??? The authors he mentioned maybe his own favourite then what is the problem? Benjamin Franklin, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi.....are they disturbing? Do they distract us? Do they disconnect us from the book? I think the answer is NO. 

Our goal should be that how we can utilize their thoughts, not just merely criticize them.

There are very few chapters that may look abstract or hard to follow. But overall, I do not find such negative points in this book.

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