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    Cover of Choose Yourself

    Choose Yourself

    James Altucher · 2013

    The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It's all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself. New tools and economic forces have emerged to make it possible for individuals to create art, make millions of dollars and change the world without “help.” More and more opportunities are rising out of the ashes of the broken system to generate real inward success (personal happiness and health) and outward success (fulfilling work and wealth). This book will teach you to do just that. With dozens of case studies, interviews and examples–including the author, investor and entrepreneur James Altucher's own heartbreaking and inspiring story–Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old.

    Productivity & Self-Improvement
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    11recommend
    24mentions
    20people
    2013–2022years
    58% recommend38% neutral4% critical

    Mentions per year

    2013201420152016201720182019202020212022

    What Hacker News says

    1. webmavenMay 2022
      I'm only familiar with two of the five books (Choose Yourself and Mindset), but those are solid recommendations (particularly the latter) that certainly builds enough (for me) confidence and interest in the other three to check them out.
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    2. KagerjaySep 2018
      haven't read a ton of nonfiction, but these were good

      - Thinking fast, and slow

      - 7 habits of highly effective people

      - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

      - Getting Things Done

      - Choose Yourself

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    3. sciroccoJan 2018
      Exercise, and books. To name a few (in no particular order):

      "Choose Yourself" by James Altucher "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill "Mindset" by Carol Dweck "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

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    4. callmeedAug 2016
      On Writing Well by Zinsser

      Traction by Weinberg & Mares

      Predictable Revenue by Ross

      Choose Yourself by Altucher

      Learn Python the Hard Way by Shaw

      Mere Christianity by Lewis

      thread
    5. hvdJul 2016
      1.How to fail at almost everything and still win big- Scott adams 2.The Surrender Experiment - Michael Singer 3.Choose Yourself - Jamel Altucher
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    6. koolhead17Feb 2015
      http://www.amazon.in/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher-ebook/dp... Choose Yourself by James Altucher

      http://www.amazon.in/Love-Yourself-Like-Your-Depends-ebook/d... Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant

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