Own the Day, Own Your Life audiobook

As a regular consumer of the Aubrey Marcus podcast, I was expecting another piece of excellent work created by him. Own the Day was no exception and I am happy to say that it was a fantastic read. For people who want to start reading about health and also seasoned readers/consumers of health and nutrition information, this book will certainly add value to most people’s lives.Mainly, I loved Aubrey’s unique approach to adding something to the ever growing self-improvement culture. Basically, as stated in the title, this book focuses on optimizing a single day. Each chapter outlines a little part of the typical salaried American workers day and offers Aubrey’s tips on how to possibly enhance that part. Put it all together, and you have one hell of an optimized and productive day. Admittedly, from having listened to his podcast for a while, I was actually expecting more vulgarity in this book. I am quite glad there weren’t as many expletives in the writing though. In conversation, it would feel more normal, but in writing it would not have come across great. So I think he had a nice balance of serious writing and humor, both vulgar and not. Equally, I think he also had a good mix of digestible writing and more serious science information.Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to people who want some easy information on making small changes to their everyday life. And enough small changes done long enough could possibly result in big changes.

Well written and funnyWhile it is true that there was nothing really new for me in terms of practices to optimize the day, it was a great reminder of what I already know. I did change the timing of some things (caffeine and hydration). Aubrey wrote the book much like he speaks about pretty much anything on the podcast. A combination of serious and humor that I really like. Great work putting together this book. Super good information in here. I haven’t gone to the bottom of the science behind it. Mostly because so much of it I have experience with already and it works for me.

Excellent book full of great motivational stories and the author reads with passion and speaks piercing truth.

I loved Aubrey's energy in this book-listened to it on audio. He's most definitely at a different time in his life than I am which made me laugh a few times with some of his ideas on how life should be for the average person. I'd like to hear his take after he's married, older, and has a few kids running around. I did enjoy it though and think just about anyone who wants to "own" their day can take something away from this read.

You could listen to hundreds of health, nutrition and human optimization podcasts with different approaches opinions and methods on the latest research, then take an average and work from there... or you could read this book and pretty much have it summed up in an easy going, easily actionable starting platform to optimize or tweak your habbits.

I took my time with this one. And I took some notes. Also made a few purchases on amazon, but gave away the bits before I could try them myself. Re-ordering today. Loads of greats data and great tips for a sharper life.

A well written and entertaining book that offers many solid advice, ideas and tips to improve all areas of our daily lives, from working, training and playing to drugs, sleeping, sex and many more. It doesn't matter who are you or how old are you. This book has at least one useful advice for anyone. A big plus is that all ideas and tips introduced in the book are actionable. Meaning, Aubrey offers instructions on how to implemented all of them right away, and to implement them in the right way. All these ideas and tips are also summarized at the end of every chapter. So, even if you forget something, don't worry. You will probably recall it later when you reach the summary.A very good book worth reading for all people who want to improve their daily lives.

 I really enjoyed listening to Aubrey Marcus and his passion for how to Own the Day. Although a lot of what he discusses can be found in lots of other literature, he delivers it in a way that encompasses and summarises the essentials of what you need to take care of, in order to achieve the most out of your life. I particularly enjoyed the discussion about nutrition and the impact that certain foods have on the various parts of your body. Whilst his delivery style is informal and quite laddish, and I disagreed with some of his opinions on using drugs to improve performance, I got a lot out of this book. I have changed various things, such as ensuring I’m more hydrated with the use of salt, limiting coffee to post fat eating, including a more varied array of foods into my diet and viewing exercise as a way to train my body for life. I also enjoyed how within the book there is also discussion of mindfulness, replacing dead time with active time, and focusing on what your mission and values are. Whilst other books only focus on one aspect of life in more depth, I feel Marcus has written this to give you a way in; to start making positive changes that you can do more research on later to further enhance yourself. If you want to be a better human, this book is a great start. 

5* for one simple idea implemented.I've turbo charged my body by consuming Pink Himalayan Sea Salt + Lemon Juice + filtered water as the very first thing in the morning to replenish my body of what I sweat out during the night. On to the next biohack.It's a very similar title to the Bulletproof Diet with respect to food, rest, etc ... but there are some deeper conceptual, day to day teachings as well.Oh, and a chapter on sex. Who doesn't want better, and more, sex?I listened to the Audiobook and will purchase the hardcover as well.

My fav quotes (not a review):-Page 27 |"The real problem is when the body can’t distinguish between physical threats and psychosocial threats—threats to our job security, or bank”-Page 92 |"The author Robert Greene has a useful, simple way of thinking about all time: it’s either alive or dead."-Page 94 |"When I was reading Zen in the Art of Archery, this was a concept I had a hard time understanding. To me, the perfect shot was the one that hit the bull’s-eye. Bam, suck it! But for the Zen masters the result didn’t matter. At least not immediately. The only thing that mattered was my total and complete mindfulness on nocking the arrow, pulling the string, aiming, breathing, and releasing. Eventually this would lead to..”-Page 111 "Deep Dive: How Fat Slows Caffeine Why fat with caffeine? Fat is one of the slowest foods to digest (metabolize) in the human system. When you mix caffeine with fat, the body can only effectively metabolize the caffeine as fast as it can metabolize fat. To break down fats, the stomach has to wait for a secretion of bile from the gallbladder. There is a natural rate-limiting factor on this mechanism of action, which forces a slower drip of caffeine into the system. As the caffeine-spurred hormone levels rise slowly, they fall slowly, spreading out the arc and diminishing the spiking and crashing sensation that can come from naked caffeine."-Page 138 "Teamwork makes the dream work!"-Page 145 "Eckhart Tolle describes this in his world-shaking book A New Earth, when he talks about the only three states of mind anyone should tolerate: acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm."-Page 184 "Wearing headphones, you listen to an audio track that pumps one frequency or tone in one ear and a different frequency or tone in the other ear. The difference in the frequency between the left and right ear determines which.. Data aside, of all the biohacks in the world, if I had to personally choose to keep only one, it would be my binaural beats."-Page 231 "Goat milk exhibits similar if not even greater benefits than raw milk. The reason for this is that goat milk is a lot more like the milk that came out of our own momma’s mammaries."-Page 239 “Ginger has the ability to speed up the time it takes your stomach to pass food to your digestive tract by up to 50 percent. Add ginger to your meal, and you can say so long to that full feeling in your gut and hello to that full feeling in your pants sooner."

I'm a personal development book junkie. I've been reading them since I was in high school (aka: a very long time). Honestly, I don't know what made me even choose this book. Except that I love it when I listen to audio books read by their author. (If you're an author PLEASE for the love of all things holy, do your own audiobook.... Even the best voice actor can't get YOUR nuances right). And I've been digging his podcast lately. This was hands down one of the best PD books I've read (erm, heard, cuz well audio...). Well researched, well spoken, thoughtful and cohesive. It touches on all the aspects of life that you need to manipulate in order to become the best version of yourself.... To "own your day." I already recommended this book to three people before I even finished half of it. And I'm recommending it to you. It's not for you if you're sensitive or easily offended. It has language and honesty. And the names of real body parts. (If you're concerned you might be offended, just listen to a few of his podcasts first, and then get over yourself). It's rare at this point that I actually learn anything new from a book like this (after, like I said, 35+ years reading books like this) but let's just say I will be making some investments after this. Did someone say 'Didgeridoo'? Yeah. If you get to that part of the book, just keep going. And a reminder - it's time for all'y'all to read War of art again. You're welcome.

Not sure what drove me to pick up this book on Audible but there was something about it.Improving your day and life as a result of the correct nutrition as well as some sensible practices seems obvious enough though and this author certainly knows his stuff and does it in a way that makes it more believable as a lot of what he says is not necessarily new, and like all things I guess it just takes multiple repetitions for it to be acknowledged and really sink in!

Some good life hacks here i'm trying to roll into my life, it will take a while for me to own the full day but I like drinking water every morning, hate doing 20 burpies every morning and i'm a big fan of someone telling me to sleep more. I also added the Onnit Bodyweight workout into the life hack (by the way he is CEO of Onnit).

Great summary of what an “optimal” day should consist of with lots of practical ideas on diet, health, etc. as well as some unconventional ideas mixed in. With that said, if you’re the type of person that would read this book then 75% of the content won’t be news to you. Very readable, but definitely geared towards men. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 only because a couple of parts felt like ads for the author’s company—he comes right out and admits this up front.