How to Be Everything
Published 2017 · 240 pages · 66,000 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Self-Help, Nonfiction
How hard is How to Be Everything to read?
How to Be Everything scores 17 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- This career guide uses plain, everyday language aimed at a broad popular audience. Its vocabulary sits close to Atomic Habits and far below literary fiction.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Self-help prose of this kind relies on direct, conversational sentences. The quick exercises and TED-talk origins point to short, clear constructions, similar to Atomic Habits.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- The book centres on the idea of multipotentiality but frames it through practical career advice and work structures. It stays more concrete than philosophical nonfiction, close to Atomic Habits.
- Information density: 32 out of 100
- At roughly 66,000 words with short exercises, the book presents a few core concepts at a comfortable pace. It is lighter than most nonfiction and comparable to Atomic Habits.
How How to Be Everything is regarded
How to Be Everything holds a literary regard score of 23 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.