90 pages • 3 hours read
Jon GordonThe Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction-Chapter 6Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Introduction Summary
The Energy Bus uses a story to teach how to use positive energy to meet life’s challenges. Positive energy is “the optimism, trust, enthusiasm, love, purpose, joy, passion, and spirit to live, work, and perform at a higher level” (xv), especially when working in teams. The author has seen the value of positivity in the thousands of people he has worked with. He has received many testimonials from clients who have overcome health problems, improved company outlooks, and won athletic competitions by using positive energy. The book presents 10 rules for developing a positive outlook to achieve success.
Chapter 1 Summary: “Flat Tire”
George’s car has a flat tire. It’s Monday morning, there’s an important meeting at work, and George can’t afford to be late. He runs back into the house, brushing aside his kids’ cheerful greetings, grouses to his wife, then begs her to give him a ride. Irritated, she answers that she has way too many errands and suggests he take the bus. Insulted, George demands, “Who takes the bus?” She says, “You do” (4).
George makes the mile-long trek to the bus stop. By chance, he gets there just as the 11 bus arrives.
