Various Retailers have Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers (eBook) on sale for $2.99.
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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.
Divulge the secrets of how to effectively lie, cheat and steal...with a bit of bullying and intimidation thrown in for good measure. Oh and remember to take credit for the accomplishment of others.
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.
Every"body" is different. Use a framework, not a formula. Find what suits you and your body/life responds to best. People are lazy, they just want the answers and instant gratification.
all I can recall from this is it seemed quite similar to The four hour workweek. I would summarize the whole theme as "figure out a way to get someone else to do all the work"
So it would be a lot easier to accomplish if you already have lots of capital you can just lean on to get the ball rolling, then you hire people to do all the work while you kick back. Pretty easy except for the having loads of money to start with part..
all I can recall from this is it seemed quite similar to The four hour workweek. I would summarize the whole theme as "figure out a way to get someone else to do all the work" So it would be a lot easier to accomplish if you already have lots of capital you can just lean on to get the ball rolling, then you hire people to do all the work while you kick back. Pretty easy except for the having loads of money to start with part..
All of these books tell you that anyone can do it because so-and-so started poor. But he got lucky enough to be a first round investor in Google or PayPal, so he basically won the lottery, and you can too if you win the lottery (of sorts).
Or pay a staff to run your entire household and test all of your business ideas and pursue 5 of them at once. See! I should charge for reading this comment. It's distilled.
I think the author is a grifter but there's valuable stuff in this book. Like advice from any successful person, take the contents with a grain of salt because they may not have a clue why they succeeded in the first place
Divulge the secrets of how to effectively lie, cheat and steal...with a bit of bullying and intimidation thrown in for good measure. Oh and remember to take credit for the accomplishment of others.
are you referring to that one guy or both of them? 😂
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.
So it would be a lot easier to accomplish if you already have lots of capital you can just lean on to get the ball rolling, then you hire people to do all the work while you kick back. Pretty easy except for the having loads of money to start with part..
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Or pay a staff to run your entire household and test all of your business ideas and pursue 5 of them at once. See! I should charge for reading this comment. It's distilled.
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