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Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright Flawed. In Barking Up the Flawed Tree, Eric Barker reveals the peculiar science in the back of what in reality determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:
• Why valedictorians rarely develop into millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might in reality 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 name of the game ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
• How to find work-life balance the usage of 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 will be able to do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Flawed Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you’ll stop guessing at success and start living the life you need.