I just finished reading The Greatest Networker in the World by John Milton Fogg (the link will take you to the author’s website). Again I picked up this book from my company’s library.

I thought this book was about how to build people and contacts. But it’s actually more about Network Marketing, or more commonly known as Multi Level Marketing (MLM).

The book was written in the style similar to Rich Dad Poor Dad, whereby the author was fortunate enough to meet and then be coached by this highly successful individual, the best in the field who happens to love sharing his knowledge, this individual is aptly titled "The Greatest Networker in the World" (akin to the Rich Dad in Kiyosaki’s book).

The author’s main point seems to be: to be successful you need to change your habits of belief, replace the old and bad habits with the ones that will help you achieve what you want, for example: if you keep on believing you are fat, that you will stay that way, instead you need to change the beliefs with what will your life looks like if you are slimmer.

The author goes on great details describing the networker’s perfect life: big house, nice cars, horses, great & happy family, a Japanese house maid (who happen also to be his no 1 distributor in Japan) and how in the end the author can achieve the same thing (in the epilogue John mentioned that he bought the networker’s house). Describing extravagant success in details seem to be the norm for this sort of book and the author seems to suggest that success in life can only be measured in what one can gain materially. 

I guess it wasn’t a fruitful reading for me as I am not really into MLM much anyway although Lina was doing it a bit before. But it was short reading and an enganging one so at least I learn a little bit about writing. Would I recommend this book? Heck no, unless you are doing MLM yourselves.

And that my friend was the 15th book finished this year.