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Ed MylettThe Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Chapters 18-19Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapters 18 Summary: “One More Prayer”
Chapter 18 explains how faith can act as a force for good, for peace, and for success. Mylett openly shares his beliefs as a Christian, without preaching or pressuring his readers into accepting Christianity as the only way to spiritual fulfillment and truth. Mylett writes that “prayer is the manifestation of faith” (224). If faith is your thought, then prayer is your action. People need a personal relationship with both faith and prayer.
Mylett quotes many passages from the Bible, described as his favorite book (227). Faith and prayer have given Mylett confidence every time he attempts to sell something, speaks in from of people, or meets with strangers. Mylett believes that there “is a direct correlation between the wealth [he’s] achieved, the business relationships and friendships [he’s] been blessed with, and most importantly, the ongoing and blissful family life [he] enjoy[s]” (228). He admits that he can’t explain why he concludes this fact but that his life can give witness to what faith and prayer have done for him.
People are either faith based, “energy-based” (229), or science based, but Mylett doesn’t think that any of these belief systems compete in themselves. He believes in faith, energy, and science as part of the universe God created. This is how The Power of Faith to Accomplish More relates to Achieving Goals With Neuroscience and Quantum Mechanics. The more Mylett has learned about science, the more it has affirmed his faith. He believes that quantum science is where faith and science intersect. This connection is formed through quantum energy, the force that interacts with, moves, and flows from all particles in the universe. Mylett believes that God created this energy that science only recently has discovered and learned about. This invisible energy is what faith and prayer tap into.
To end the chapter, Mylett lists off a series of thoughts on the power of prayer and faith. These include deepening one’s faith to strengthen commitment to one’s cause; praying every day, in both good and bad times; only praying for good, never harm; and acknowledging the importance of one’s relationship with God. One may have a crisis of faith or question God’s will, but in the end, faith and prayer are a means of accomplishing more.
Chapter 19 Summary: “One Last One More”
The final chapter, Chapter 19, describes Mylett’s One More Mindset as a product of his childhood relationship with his father. Mylett’s father, a hardworking and successful banker, was addicted to alcohol. When Mylett was 15, his mother gave his father an ultimatum: “[E]ither you get sober or lose your family” (241). Mylett’s father started to cry and said, “I have One More chance, Eddie” (242). This “one last one more” provides the sense of urgency to succeed in improving what you hold most precious in life. Mylett reminds readers that the “One Last One More is the lesson of this book” (244). For Mylett’s father, the possibility of losing his family spurred him enough to get him to stop drinking and stay sober. He used the mindset of one more day sober, taking a small step one day at a time, to make a significant difference in his and his family’s lives. Mylett was able to spend quality time with his father after he got sober. When his father was diagnosed with a rare type of lung cancer, he persevered through all the treatments without complaining. His father passed away in 2020, but not without leaving a lifelong impression on Mylett. Mylett tells readers to live a one last one more life as often as possible, to treat each day like a new chance at life, and to “[u]nderstand that it's never too late for One Last One More” (245).
Chapters 18-19 Analysis
Mylett ends The Power of One More by bringing his faith and personal history to the forefront of discussion. Although he identifies as a Christian, Mylett encourages all people of religious belief to use The Power of Faith to Accomplish More. This shift in the discussion alters Mylett’s position from motivational speaker to preacher. Mylett’s tone in these final chapters is evangelical, as he wants to spread the good news of The One More Mindset to all his readers.
The intentional side of faith manifests in the practice of prayer, which is essential to the one more mindset. Likewise, Mylett advocates for Achieving Goals With Neuroscience and Quantum Mechanics by arguing for an invisible energy that “drives the universe” and influences “infinitesimal particles” (231). This is the power of prayer, and he relates this immediately the scientific discussion to the power of faith to accomplish more. Quantum energy becomes the expression of faith in the universe.
His theory of religion’s connection to quantum mechanics does not cite any external sources or reference any current or historical authorities. Mylett only refers to a “cutting-edge area of study” that links science and faith together (232). Readers are put in a position where they must decide for themselves whether to trust Mylett’s word on the subject. In Mylett’s mode of argumentation—common to many self-help texts—firsthand experience is situated as the most convincing form of evidence.
The one last one more concept emerges from Mylett seeing his father’s efforts and success in attaining sobriety. The tone of this chapter is emotional, and Mylett again uses personal anecdotes to convey his motivation for writing the book. He wants to show people how to live every day as if it were their last because that mindset can empower people to accomplish more than they could ever dream. This section uses pathos rather than logos to persuade the reader of Mylett’s argument. Mylett’s motivation to write the book and share his one last one more philosophy connects to his childhood experiences and the conventions of the self-help genre. He provides another list of three things to know about one last one more that repeats ideas he has already developed in the text to make them easy for readers to remember. These sum up his philosophy based on the fact that life is fleeting and that even flawed individuals—like himself, his father, and the reader—deserve one more chance to improve their lives.
