Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

The funnest, most out-of-the-box, analysis on the keys for success edsetiadi This is the 1st book I've ever pre-ordered. I am a regular reader of the blog Barking Up The Wrong Tree, and I once thought would it be cool if Eric Barker can make a book out of these gems? And my God he did, and it did not disappoints one bit.Like Dale Carnegie, Eric Barker uses so many stories, b. Nancy Chek said Hard to put down--in any sense of the word. Fabulous book--and I'm not even finished yet, but I wanted to tell somebody and it's after midnight so I don't dare call anyone. I wish I'd had the book when I was "Hard to put down--in any sense of the word" according to Nancy Chek. Fabulous book--and I'm not even finished yet, but I wanted to tell somebody and it's after midnight so I don't dare call anyone. I wish I'd had the book when I was 20, but, of course, a lot of the people in the book (besides Genghis Khan, Churchill and Nazi collaborators) weren't even born when I wa. 0, but, of course, a lot of the people in the book (besides Genghis Khan, Churchill and Nazi collaborators) weren't even born when I wa. Happiness? Socializing Kurt Schulenburg If you want a little bit more than the average "how-to" or "self-help" read, this book is for you. Always based solidly in science - and he extensively quotes and names his sources! - this is the sort of book that you might as well buy a few copies because you will find yourself passing it out to fr

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 s