Book Review: Talle D. Amedu’s Making Room

Anyone can author a book, but a book written from personal experience adds tremendous value to the message it conveys. Making Room is such a book.

The decision to write the Foreword for the book, stems from my five years acquaintance with the author and his remarkable rise above others owing to sheer tenacity, self-confidence and his commitment to drive progress among his peers, which truly impressed me. 

In writing the foreword for this book, for which I thoroughly read the manuscript, I was determined to assess the author’s claim that he could teach readers how to realize, organize, optimize and monetize one’s multipotentials. I soon realized that I had no need for them, as I wasn’t reviewing a book – I was reading my own. The author was writing about me and my experience as an entrepreneur, right after university graduation. 

I vividly recall my first my first attempt at designing business cards, which confronted me with the  challenge of multipotentiality. I earnestly desired the card to portray me as an “idea merchant” but I ultimately settled for “managing director”. 

Although I possessed an abundance of ideas to assist others in establishing profitable ventures, the whirlwind in my mind prevented me from successfully launching any of my own. At that moment, my perspective on evaluating this book transformed.

Talle discovered in Making Room, he aptly captures the internal dynamics necessary to weave multiple talents, interests and passions into a vibrant and limitless source of energy, enabling one to express their life with genius-level outcomes.

I was particularly interested in how the author reconciled the established fact that people accomplish more when they focus on one thing at a time with his assertion that ‘multipotentialities’ also known as potential geniuses, should embrace their multipotentialities. First, by identifying one of their strong points, then move to another one only when traction, measured by effective monetization, had been achieved. In other words, focus on one thing at a time.  

I particularly appreciate his Eight-step Process To Help You Optimize Your Multipotentiality because he went on to provide precise instructions on how to implement it. That chapter alone is worth every penny spent on this book.

If you are fortunate to identify yourself as someone with multipotentiality, this book is for you. As you read it, do not neglect to complete the exercises. That is where the true power resides, the power you need to transform potential into tangible results.