S.U.M.O (Shut Up, Move On): The Straight-Talking Guide to Succeeding in Life -- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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I do find with this type of book it's easy to nod along as you read and then change absolutely zero, so it'll be interesting to see how I feel about it in a year. I was made to read this at the request of a previous employer, admittedly I've never found self help books useful but this one in particular was the death knell to me for the whole genre. The principles are simple though so probably easy to apply to your day-to-day and the final chapter, on goal setting was one of the better ones and so it ended on a high. I feel what SUMO is about is very similar to stocism, essentially the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to take action and change what we can and essentially the wisdom to know the difference. I just bought it and just reading the preface was enough to make me want to slap my head for even purchasing this book in the first place.

I read this book as recommended by my mindset coach as she talked to me about hippo time (I now have a pic of a hippo on my mood board! TASCHEN reminds us what all the fuss was about with an anniversary edition of SUMO, a collection of museum-sized prints bound and elegantly packaged in a monochrome casing with one of Newton’s Giant Nudes on the cover, a hint at the arresting selection of silver, pearl and shadow-toned captures within. This book should be used to teach photography, should be read hundreds of times, absorbed and memorized. As with any self help book, the author's writing style has a big part to play in whether or not this book is of use to you. Images such as ‘Sie Kommen’, which appeared in 1981 Vogue Paris, where the primary intention is to present stylish clothing, subverting the function of the fashion photo.

For example, when you've finished this book, you might procrastinate, you might do nothing, if you do, don't blame the book, instead, look in the mirror.

Helmut Newton (1920–2004) always showed a healthy disdain for the easy or predictable, so it’s no surprise that the SUMO was an irresistible project. As each page unfurls in a blaze of blues, pinks, greens, and oranges, we are spellbound both by the artist’s vibrancy as a colorist and his extraordinary sense of the conditions of the world that surrounds us. Burroughs, Catherine Deneuve, Graham Greene, Vivienne Westwood, Ralph Gibson, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yves Saint Laurent, and Nicole Kidman.

Building on his background in psychology, Paul’s aim is to deliver a practical, relevant message that he hopes can make an immediate impact on people’s professional and personal lives. Paul has written eleven books, and is in the process of writing number twelve, and co-writing thirteen (a children's book). The scale of the book, both in terms of its physical size and its scope, not only means that we are instantly immersed in Hockney’s spectacular colours, but we are also reminded of his ability to use these colours to show us the world as we experience it.

Windy Dryden's 10 Steps to Positive Living is a more intelligent and detailed take on a similar theme, with similar solutions offered; and far more engaging and persuasive.

The main messages are similar though - are control of your life, don't wallow (too long) in your own self-pity, stop having an attitude of being a victim of life/fate/other people, seize opportunity and so on. Twenty years later, we celebrate the legacy of this publishing venture in an XL edition, the result of a project conceived by Helmut Newton and revised by his wife June. In an 1975 image titled ‘Rue Aubriot’, the model appears fully dressed, wearing an Yves Saint Laurent ‘Le Smoking’ tuxedo.