Awaken your genius presents a guide to unlock your greatest potential within. Unlike other self-help and productivity books, Varol's focus is not to provide definitive steps but to help readers explore their individuality.

The book is scrapbookesque littered with anecdotes and useful tips to guide an individual to transform from their current state to an 'Awakended' state. Some chapters offer low-level concrete advice and steps to undertake while others aim to change the readers mindset through a high-level approach. The high-level chapters may be unclear to some - however Varol has addressed the shortcoming by providing a supplementary playbook that helps shed more light on the abstract chapters.

The chapters are broadly arranged in 5 main parts. I'll provide a chapter outline below for your reference. The earlier chapters focus on unlearning, and progress to tapping into your inner signals, to finding your mission, and completing a moth-to-caterpillar style metamorphosis.

Varol presents some new ground that will enthrall the uninitiated, and has enough original content to entertain the journeyman and provide these veterans with timely reminders of new habits and mindsets they have accumulated in their developmental process.

I enjoyed the chapters that describe in detail why it is important to limit the information streams that we are peppered with and to seek high quality information when we do sit down to read. My personal favourite chapters include 'Embrace your purple' and 'The first principles of you' that push readers to tune into the signals within to find original and creative solutions.

My overall impression was that there were enough gold nuggets for me and I believe it is likely to have at least one chapter useful to each reader. Enough so, for me to recommend it to others.