Predict Your Success by Joseph Olaoye

Drawing on a broad spectrum of fields and perspectives, Predict Your Success: Simple Strategies to Help You Discover Your Strengths, Change Your Thinking, Create Your World and Change Your Life by Joseph Olaoye is an intuitive and impactful guide for discovering your authentic path and remaining resilient through life’s storms.

Broken up into three areas – Discovery, Succeed, and Perennial Success – this book is designed for those at any point on their personal journey. Beginning with the basics of overcoming internal obstacles, recognizing self-worth, and understanding the chaotic global context within which we live, Olaoye offers seemingly simple wisdom on creating the career, life, and world you envision for yourself.

The impact of this book is a combination of the emotional appeal of powerful storytelling via personal anecdotes with scientific and academic buttressing on every subject from cognitive behavior and time management to primal instincts, positivity, and accountability. The result is a fluid and easy-to-understand primer on personal performance.

Structurally speaking, the book naturally flows between the three primary sections, while the assessment questions at the end of each section work as a good summary and pace-setter. The declarative confidence of the author is also encouraging, breaking the complex and daunting tasks of self-improvement and goal achievement into much more digestible steps. The writing is occasionally repetitive, as though the author had written down the same thought in multiple ways, and the simplistic writing style can sometimes be too choppy. However, the prose is cleanly edited overall.

Aside from some limited critiques, the author’s tone is perfectly balanced between an authority and a trusted advisor in this original and engaging personal development guide.