Book Review: Trapped- Discover Yourself and Reinvent Your Life by Rajat Chakraborty

About the Author: 

Rajat Chakraborty who completed his engineering degree in 2016, is now an entrepreneur. He aims at helping people in order to improve as many lives as possible and that is the reason why he writes. He motivates people not to give up and to keep working.

You can check out his website by clicking the link here.

About the Book: 

Trapped is a self-help book written by Rajat Chakraborty for a good cause. Through this book, he aims at igniting the minds of the youth in our country and prepare them to face the hurdles on the road to success. The book consists of five chapters and each of these chapters deal with a certain aspect of leading the way to a successful and happy lifestyle, to experiment with options, to face failures and to never give up. Each chapter of the book starts with a certain quote by a famous person in relation to the lesson being given in that particular chapter. The book also consists of a number of success stories of people who are working amazingly in their diverse fields. It talks about entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, professors, army officers, youtubers, sportsmen, etc. and focuses on the point that for achieving heights in any field, one has to work hard. The book also talks about the difference between an interest and a passion for a particular field and provides a number of exercises and experiments for college students to take up in order to figure out their area of interest. The book focuses upon connecting the dots and finally realising what an individual desires to take up as a profession in life. The last chapter of the book only consists of success stories and advices given by some successful people to the youth of our country today.

Review: 

I received this book as a review copy from the author in exchange of an honest review and I was highly excited to read this book. I’ve mentioned quite a few times on my blog that I am someone who is not into reading self-help books and I am all about fiction but when I came to know that this book was written specifically for college students, I realised that being a college student myself I should definitely give this book a try. The thing which I realised after I finished this book was that I wish I had got this book to read back in 2015 when I first started college since it consists of a lot of motivating and experimental talks which are required to be done to every child who joins college. It provides you with different prospects to experiment with and to figure out what you want to do with your life while you are in college since college is the best time to experiment with your options where you have an ample amount of time, a lot of opportunities and a lot of people to communicate with. Since I have only one year of my college life left, I realised the importance of each and everything which this book lays down and I wish someone told me such things when I was a fresher. The way the author has communicated through this book even his personal life experiences is just amazing. This book is basically just about experiencing and experimenting with everything which comes across your way in life and makes it clear that no interest is big or small and you don’t need to be an engineer or a doctor and to live a lavish lifestyle in order to be successful and happy in life. The book also provides for various platforms formed in furtherance of this book in order to help college students in order to figure out their life choices.

To Read or not to Read: 

If you are someone who is a fresher in college or is just going to join college then trust me, you should definitely read this book. It’s so helpful and you’ll learn a lot from it. Also, if you are someone who is looking for some prospect in life and has problem in figuring out your professional choices then definitely read this book. The exercises provided in the book will definitely help you figure out your area of interest.

You can buy the book by clicking the link here.

“Passion is something that you care about deeply because it gives you meaning, and you would continue doing it even if you don’t get paid for it. As a result of your consistent efforts, you become good at it. Which is when people start calling you talented.”

Rating: 4/5

Thank you for reading. :)