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The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.
From the author: "For the last two years, I've interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it's the first time they've agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview. This unusual depth has helped make The Tim Ferriss Show the first business/interview podcast to pass 100 million downloads. This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and 'inside baseball' you won't find anywhere else. It also includes new tips from past guests, and life lessons from new 'guests' you haven't met."
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Various Retailers have Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers (eBook) on sale for $2.99.
Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal.
The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.
From the author: "For the last two years, I've interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it's the first time they've agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview. This unusual depth has helped make The Tim Ferriss Show the first business/interview podcast to pass 100 million downloads. This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and 'inside baseball' you won't find anywhere else. It also includes new tips from past guests, and life lessons from new 'guests' you haven't met."
Emulating billionaires seems susceptible to what I call the "Jim Ryun effect." Ryun broke 4:00 in the mile in high school, represented the U.S.A. in the Olympics between his junior and senior years, set the American record as a senior, and went on to hold the mile world record for 9 years, along with other world records. Naturally American trainers and runners analyzed and emulated his training workouts and volumes, but the results were disastrous, and are said to have paralyzed American distance running for decades. Eventually the reason became clear: Jim Ryun was a freak, and his training was suitable for him, but not for almost any other runner–even elite ones.
Emulating people who are successful at what they do in order to achieve analogous success is a natural instinct, but there are reasons why it usually doesn't work. For one, consider that the model worked for this one person, but may not have resulted in success in most instances. For example, if 100 people all attempt something with a 1% success rate, one of them is going to succeed, someone will write a book about how that one person succeeded, many people will attempt it, and 99% will fail.
Haven't read it and won't act like I have. I was put off by marketing like
This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and 'inside baseball' you won't find anywhere else
when the book may simply be edited-down notes from his podcast. Can anybody tell me if I'm off the mark here?
I am a reader of his and haven't listened to his podcast! I think this is a great book to pick up and flip to something interesting for 10 minutes or so...
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Haven't read it and won't act like I have. I was put off by marketing like
This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and 'inside baseball' you won't find anywhere else
when the book may simply be edited-down notes from his podcast. Can anybody tell me if I'm off the mark here?
You're slightly off the mark. He does have quotes from the podcast, but roughly every "tip" is 2-4 pages with perhaps 4-6 sentences being quotes from a discussion. He's a great author IMO and a good interviewer. Finished this book about a year ago. It's better than the 4-hour chef book, but worse than 4-hour body. There are some very useful tips, but roughly 15% of the book is people talking about different meditations they do.
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Emulating billionaires seems susceptible to what I call the "Jim Ryun effect." Ryun broke 4:00 in the mile in high school, represented the U.S.A. in the Olympics between his junior and senior years, set the American record as a senior, and went on to hold the mile world record for 9 years, along with other world records. Naturally American trainers and runners analyzed and emulated his training workouts and volumes, but the results were disastrous, and are said to have paralyzed American distance running for decades. Eventually the reason became clear: Jim Ryun was a freak, and his training was suitable for him, but not for almost any other runner–even elite ones.
Emulating people who are successful at what they do in order to achieve analogous success is a natural instinct, but there are reasons why it usually doesn't work. For one, consider that the model worked for this one person, but may not have resulted in success in most instances. For example, if 100 people all attempt something with a 1% success rate, one of them is going to succeed, someone will write a book about how that one person succeeded, many people will attempt it, and 99% will fail.
As someone who got this book at a garage sale, I am can say it is wellllll worth the read. Not in one go, lots of to go through, broken up by categories, then guests. Nice book for casual reading, but mine also has bookmarks for the gems. I am tempted to get the digital... it is a big boog to carry around and it would give back a bit.
Emulating billionaires seems susceptible to what I call the "Jim Ryun effect." Ryun broke 4:00 in the mile in high school, represented the U.S.A. in the Olympics between his junior and senior years, set the American record as a senior, and went on to hold the mile world record for 9 years, along with other world records. Naturally American trainers and runners analyzed and emulated his training workouts and volumes, but the results were disastrous, and are said to have paralyzed American distance running for decades. Eventually the reason became clear: Jim Ryun was a freak, and his training was suitable for him, but not for almost any other runner–even elite ones.
Emulating people who are successful at what they do in order to achieve analogous success is a natural instinct, but there are reasons why it usually doesn't work. For one, consider that the model worked for this one person, but may not have resulted in success in most instances. For example, if 100 people all attempt something with a 1% success rate, one of them is going to succeed, someone will write a book about how that one person succeeded, many people will attempt it, and 99% will fail.
Just my two cents.
Good point, to take that further though I am wondering if there is any analysis like 90% of the billionaires does this or that, and beyond the statistical prevalence the author at least speculating as to why that works - from the comments here it sounds like it's more little snippets more for entertainment and curiosity sake than anything that can be systematically applied, if that's not the case maybe someone who has read it can chime in to speak to how much of a systematic approach he goes into, if at all.
This self help nonsense helps no one. Ditto for most pop psychology books. Like I've said in other book "deals", you either have it or you don't.
My favorite is Malcolm Gladwell. Takes common sense points, provides "research" to back up those points, reader feels smart because they are essentially reading something that anyone with real world experience could put together on their own, but because they read it in a book and understand the concept, they feel like they gained some insight.
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Emulating people who are successful at what they do in order to achieve analogous success is a natural instinct, but there are reasons why it usually doesn't work. For one, consider that the model worked for this one person, but may not have resulted in success in most instances. For example, if 100 people all attempt something with a 1% success rate, one of them is going to succeed, someone will write a book about how that one person succeeded, many people will attempt it, and 99% will fail.
Just my two cents.
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Emulating people who are successful at what they do in order to achieve analogous success is a natural instinct, but there are reasons why it usually doesn't work. For one, consider that the model worked for this one person, but may not have resulted in success in most instances. For example, if 100 people all attempt something with a 1% success rate, one of them is going to succeed, someone will write a book about how that one person succeeded, many people will attempt it, and 99% will fail.
Just my two cents.
Emulating people who are successful at what they do in order to achieve analogous success is a natural instinct, but there are reasons why it usually doesn't work. For one, consider that the model worked for this one person, but may not have resulted in success in most instances. For example, if 100 people all attempt something with a 1% success rate, one of them is going to succeed, someone will write a book about how that one person succeeded, many people will attempt it, and 99% will fail.
Just my two cents.
My favorite is Malcolm Gladwell. Takes common sense points, provides "research" to back up those points, reader feels smart because they are essentially reading something that anyone with real world experience could put together on their own, but because they read it in a book and understand the concept, they feel like they gained some insight.
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