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Barking Up the Wrong Tree (eBook)

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Various Retailers have Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker (eBook) on sale for $1.99.

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  • Much of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You'll learn:
    • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
    • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers
    • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
    • The secret ingredient to "grit" that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
    • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man
  • By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it's good that we aren't. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn't so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
  • Page Length: 312 pages

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  • About this Deal:
    • This offer matches the popular +72 Frontpage Deal from October 2024.
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 4,700 customer reviews.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
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Various Retailers have Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker (eBook) on sale for $1.99.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal.

Available from:About this Book:
  • Much of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You'll learn:
    • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
    • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers
    • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
    • The secret ingredient to "grit" that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
    • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man
  • By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it's good that we aren't. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn't so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
  • Page Length: 312 pages

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • This offer matches the popular +72 Frontpage Deal from October 2024.
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 4,700 customer reviews.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
  • About this Store:

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kp09
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Pricing apart, its a great book.

Sharing my experience about the book….

After reading the book, I got motivated and bought its physical copy to take notes and also sent physical copies to friends.
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Price went up $0.01 lol.

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Nola.Joe
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Got it when it was free a couple months ago
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HonestWinter7560
Feb 11, 2025
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Bought it for 95 cents on January 8th, 2022. Inflation I guess.
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BruceInCola
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Quote from HonestWinter7560 :
Inflation I guess.
Barking up the wrong tree.
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thespacecowboy
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Price went up $0.01 lol.
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decadefade
Feb 11, 2025
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audiobook free on Spotify
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kp09
Feb 11, 2025
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Pricing apart, its a great book.

Sharing my experience about the book….

After reading the book, I got motivated and bought its physical copy to take notes and also sent physical copies to friends.
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1n4one
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Quote from kp09 :
Pricing apart, its a great book.

Sharing my experience about the book….

After reading the book, I got motivated and bought its physical copy to take notes and also sent physical copies to friends.
Finally a review. "If you bought the book for free or a low price and forgot about it, you might be a hoarder".
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1n4one
Feb 11, 2025
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Quote from decadefade :
audiobook free on Spotify
Not for me, I see a 5-minute introduction, but must purchase the book. Have a family subscription to Spotify
Feb 11, 2025
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Jfunk910
Feb 11, 2025
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Quote from 1n4one :
Not for me, I see a 5-minute introduction, but must purchase the book. Have a family subscription to Spotify
It looked like that for me too but I clicked on the chapters section and was able to listen to it.
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nerdalert
Feb 11, 2025
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So is this book only defining success as making money?
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skwishbot
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Quote from kp09 :
Pricing apart, its a great book.

Sharing my experience about the book….

After reading the book, I got motivated and bought its physical copy to take notes and also sent physical copies to friends.
are you all millionaires now?
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jjj444yes
Feb 12, 2025
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people fall for these books every year, roughly around this time of year
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people fall for these books every year, roughly around this time of year
you are barking up the wrong tree shake head
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Jfunk910
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Quote from jjj444yes :
people fall for these books every year, roughly around this time of year
So I'm about halfway through the audiobook. It's okay. There's probably a better self help book than this one but there are definitely worse. The one subversive thing it does to the self help genre is discuss times where the reader wouldn't want to emulate the successful person in the given case study. Aside from that it's pretty par for the course as far as self help goes.

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