I think I can summarize the message of this book succinctly; be a good person and don’t run your mouth.

Below are a few small points that I remember taking away…

• The most helpful single line of advice is the question of “What should I stop doing?” Most advice is geared towards doing instead of not doing and it’s extremely helpful to inverse conventional advise at times.
• Believe it or not, this is the first genuinely funny book I’ve read in a while. Either my book selection sucks, my sense of humor sucks, or Marshall Goldsmith is pretty good at drawing out a few zingers in an otherwise serious book. I’m going with the last option :)