I Can't Make This Up - Life Lessons

Kevin Hart

Atria

2017

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: 1501155563

NSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.

The question you’re probably asking yourself right now is: What does Kevin Hart have that a book also has?

According to the three people who have seen Kevin Hart and a book in the same room, the answer is clear:

A book is compact. Kevin Hart is compact.

A book has a spine that holds it together. Kevin Hart has a spine that holds him together.

A book has a beginning. Kevin Hart’s life uniquely qualifies him to write this book by also having a beginning.

It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his own toys.

The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero, just like the odds that are stacked against the release of a new book in this era of social media (where Hart has a following of over 100 million, by the way).

But Kevin Hart, like Ernest Hemingway, JK Rowling, and Chocolate Droppa before him, was able to defy the odds and turn it around. In his literary debut, he takes the reader on a journey through what his life was, what it is today, and how he’s overcome each challenge to become the man he is today.

And that man happens to be the biggest comedian in the world, with tours that sell out football stadiums and films that have collectively grossed over $3.5 billion.

He achieved this not just through hard work, determination, and talent: It was through his unique way of looking at the world. Because just like a book has chapters, Hart sees life as a collection of chapters that each person gets to write for himself or herself.

“Not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter,” he says. “So why not choose the interpretation that serves your life the best?”

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5 (Perfeito)

Top 1 book on my “Surprisingly good reads of 2019” list

I would be perfectly comfortable displaying just this one book on a Self-help shelf at a bookstore. On top of life lessons (which were told in a way that just Kevin can do), it's a funny, soothing and a creative reading all along.

I NEVER would have imagined the kind of dilemmas, the hardships, the troubles he had to go through in order to get where he is today. Sometimes we can take things for granted and not appreciate what we have and how lucky we are just for the solely fact of being alive that, eventually, you may become your own obstacle. Throughout the reading and his owning up to his mistakes, makes it all the more poignant and heartfelt observing our life from a third-person mode and seeing that most of our hardest dilemma are a merely concept in which can be interpreted in a good or bad way. A text message, a word, or the glance of a loved one can have a huge impact in a day and thus, keeping in mind what truly matters throughout any challenges we may face can, and will, guide us towards our objective.

Even though it was not a dense reading filled with academic articles, research and etc., The book in itself was one of those experiences which enhances the most our mindset and make a truly impact. For that, I will be grateful to this great comedian called Kevin Heat! (If you'd read the book you'd get that haha)