Book Bearings
Cover of The 5 a.m. Club by Robin S. Sharma

The 5 a.m. Club

Robin S. Sharma

  • 360 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2018
  • 18 editions
Buy on Bookshop.orgView on Open Library

Bookshop.org links may earn us a commission. It supports independent bookstores and costs you nothing.

1 About this book

The 5 AM Club is a self-help book by the Canadian writer Robin Sharma, told as a story. A burned-out entrepreneur and an artist looking for new creative energy meet a billionaire, who takes them on a journey, partly set in Mauritius, and teaches them the morning routine he credits for his success. Its core is the 20/20/20 formula: rise at five and spend the first hour in three twenty-minute blocks of exercise, reflection and learning. Along the way the book covers habit formation, focus, sleep and what Sharma calls the twin cycles of elite performance.

  • Personal growth
  • Time management
  • Creative thinking
  • Diaries

2 What to expect

Self-help told as a fable: a burned-out entrepreneur and an artist learn a billionaire's early-morning routine. The practical core is simple, one hour at five o'clock split between exercise, reflection and learning, and around it come many named formulas and a great deal of motivational talk. The style is upbeat and emphatic, and most of its 300-plus pages are story and conversation, not step-by-step instruction.

Good for readers who want: morning routines, motivation, and self-help told as a story.

3 About Robin S. Sharma

Born 1964

Robin Sharma is a Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series. Sharma was a litigation lawyer when, at age 25, when he self-published MegaLiving (1994), a book on stress management and spirituality. He also initially self-published The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, which was then picked up for wider distribution by HarperCollins.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

4 More by Robin S. Sharma

5 Similar books

Find a book that fits your moment