Just finished Jason Zook’s “Own Your Weird” and thoroughly enjoyed it. And more importantly I was inspired a lot and learned a lot!

If you’re thinking of changing up your life, starting a business or need some inspiration to shake things up, read Own Your Weird!

I started a journey to radically change my life, upend my career and start something new, about 5 months ago. This book really helped me to further hone my plan and motivate me to get cracking. If anything, it showed me that I’d made the right decision to Own My Weird and change my work and life for the better!

This is a romance novel about flying telepathic trolls who inhabit one of Jupiter’s moons. Whoops. Wrong book. 😉

Everyone's heard the advice, "Be yourself." Cue eye roll. Hard pass. "Own your weird" is a similar concept. I highly recommend this book.

Wait, what?

Come on. Don't tell me your first reaction to hearing "own your weird" wasn't "ooh, what's that about?" (If it wasn't, this isn't the book for you.)

In true Jason Zook fashion, Jason Zook takes age-old advice, applies his own brand of weird, and delivers an inspiring guide to defining your own success and mapping your own trail to achieve it.

Boiled down, the message of this book is "Know yourself. Trust yourself. Be yourself." But trust me, there's more to this book than that.

Jason presents his own weird path to his own definition of success, shares the principles and values behind everything he does, and provides action steps to help you apply the ideas he's shared.

If there was one thing I could add to my personalized collection of learning (😉) from this book, it would be to test my assumptions. (I'm always assuming I can't do things I've never tried. It's time to try. Then yell "I owned it!" loudly in a public place.)

It feels like the author wrote it just to have it.

The book doesn't have a whole idea even though it pretends to do so.

Author starts from his business then jumps to philosophy and then jumps to his vegan diet.

You never know what to expect from him.

It took me a little longer to finish this book compared to a standard book because I continually kept putting it down to take notes and capture the ideas Jason was putting into my head. Jason has definitely embraced this strategy in his own life, and it shows. While many of his approaches are way out of my league, he does an excellent job framing them in a way that makes them personally relevant.

On a more pragmatic level, Jason helps see our standards and norms through a different lens. He helps expose the ruts we're in but can't see because we've accepted them as the only way to do things. While Jason's personal stories take things to extremes, it never felt like it was all or nothing. He addresses a wide variety of topics though the context of questioning why we do things the way we've always done them.

Maybe it's just good timing, but I can genuinely say this book helped me approach my business in a new way. It's different and refreshing. So if you feel like maybe you're in the proverbial rut, this very well might be the book to help you break out of it.

Part business book, part memoir, part self-help, this book is quintessential Jason Zook! Through stories of his path through life and business in his unique way, with his always-entertaining voice, this book gets you thinking of how much more fun and effective carving your own path is than following someone else's prescribed route. It offers a little to-do at the end of each chapter to get you started, but it's not so much a how-to as a how to think differently! Easy and fun to read, I highly recommend Own Your Weird!

I haven't put this book down since I received it last night. 200 pages, filled with stories and advice from Jason Zook. He has a very interesting life. Is this book worth $24? Probably not. Probably would sell better at $15

A really fun read that had me giggling out loud at multiple points. Great advice and just a fun unique perspective!

While I admit that somehow or other I didn't know who he was before I received this book.. I am impressed with what he is accomplishing. He shows us with this book that anyone can be successful if they put forth the effort. The book itself.. I have mixed feelings about because I see what it is.. it's another of his tactics but yet it's working.

Watching him would teach you much more than reading his words since this book seems to be just another of his many endeavors. He is making money with every cheesy tactic he could possibly think of but it is somehow or other working for him. He earns my respect for somehow pulling it all off. Most of us who have been Entrepreneurs for a long time could only joke of doing what he is actually doing- quite successfully. I think you could find that most of what is contained in this book is on his blog but it's still put together pretty well. 4 stars,

The book isn’t a list of checkboxes to be successful. Instead it is a mantra that allows you to explore who you are and what makes you unique. Once discovered being authentic and consistent can play a large role in helping people find their own version of happiness.