slight edge by jeff olson Chapter 1: The Beach Bum and the Millionaire This chapter highlights how all of us hold within ourselves the unique ability to become either an incredibly successful person or a huge bum. Chapter 2: The First Ingredient This chapter talks about the first ingredient you need to brew up the perfect success recipe, which is to understand your philosophy towards success and improve on it if it is an unconstructive one. Chapter 3: The Choice In this chapter, Olson talks about how simple positive daily activities if done regularly and consistently can help create a compound effect over time. Doing something once or twice never gets you anywhere close to your goals because the effect of such actions wears off quite soon. To produce a compound effect that lasts for a while, you need to make efforts consistently on a regular basis. This is what eventually creates an impact that does not wear off and often lasts for an eternity. Chapter 4: Master the Mundane It talks about how committing yourself to the routine tasks in your job and doing them consistently help you get an edge over others. Chapter 5: Slow Down To Go Fast To achieve your goals, you need to stop running all the time and go slow at times just as the tortoise did and won the race while the hare lost it. Chapter 6: Don’t Fall For the Quantum Leap Olson discusses how overnight success is a myth as success always comes from hard work and consistency. Chapter 7: The Secret To Happiness In this chapter, Olson discusses how happiness is something you can create yourself by engaging in simple activities daily that bring you joy and meaning. Chapter 8: The Ripple Effect This chapter talks about how all of us are interconnected and affect each other in one way or another. Chapter 9: But You Have To Start With a Penny In this chapter, Olson reminds the reader how one should get started with the first step and do something right now to build good habits over time because walking the walk is what creates an effect. Olson writes how all of us are aware of what we need to do and even how we need to do. We know everything we really need to know, but what is lacking is the ability to take meaningful action on a consistent basis. We are scared of working hard every single day and that is precisely what keeps us from growing forward and better in life. The second part of the book includes the following chapters: Chapter 10: Two Life Paths This chapter discusses how there are only two options in life: either we are dying living a meaningless life or we are growing doing meaningful things. To live a worthwhile life, one should do the later. Chapter 11: Mastering the Slight Edge To become the boss of your life, you need to attain mastery, which simply involves doing meaningful and important tasks each day. If you do that consistently, with time you will become the master. Chapter 12: Invest In Yourself. This chapter educates the readers on the importance of investing in yourself and improving your skill set as that helps you work better and improve your productivity. Chapter 13: Learn From Mentors Olson talks about the significance of having mentors in this chapter as this saves us time and educates us on the many tricks we can exercise to achieve our goals faster. Chapter 14: Use Your Slight Edge Allies This chapter discusses the allies that help you achieve the slight edge which include momentum, completion, reflection and celebration. Chapter 15: Cultivate Slight Edge Habits In this chapter, Olson shares the seven habits which if developed can help you achieve the slight edge. These include: Showing up Showing up consistently Cultivating a positive outlook Becoming committed to a goal for the long haul Nurturing a burning desire supported by faith Willingness to pay the price for your goals Practicing the slight edge integrity Chapter 16: Three Steps To Your Dreams This chapter talks about the 3 steps that can lead to the fulfillment of your dreams. Step 1 involves writing down your goals. Step 2 requires you to look at them daily and step 3 demands you to make a plan and start with it. Chapter 17: Living the Slight Edge It discusses how you need to work on setting goals in the different areas of your life including health, wealth, happiness, personal fulfillment, relationships, finances, impact on the world and career and then create action plans for each of them to fulfill your goals. Chapter 18: Where to Go From Here In the final chapter, Olson describes how you need to carry out one discipline every day, review your performance, and ensure to surround yourself with positive, successful people to be successful in life. Olson provides simple and easy-to-follow tactics in this book which if implemented can help you get the edge you have always wanted.