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Skip the Line

Ingenious, Simple Strategies to Propel Yourself to Wealth, Success and Happiness
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Skip the Line by James Altucher explores how to break free from conventional career advice and pursue your dreams. It provides insights and strategies for overcoming obstacles, embracing failure, and utilising unconventional approaches to achieve success in any field.
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Skip the Line

While showing you how to approach change and crisis, he gives you tools to help easily execute ideas, become an expert negotiator, attract the attention of those around you, scale promising ideas, and improve leadership - which will catapult you higher than you ever thought possible and at a speed that everyone will tell you is impossible.

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Skip the Line by James Altucher is a transformative guide designed to help you achieve a successful life regardless of your starting point. Once regarded as a total failure, Altucher has since created a $60 million business, making his insights both authentic and invaluable. This book distills his remarkable journey from struggle to success, offering readers a new mindset and a proven toolkit to rapidly acquire the skills needed to forge their own path to success.

Contrary to popular belief, the 10,000-hour rule isn't the only way to achieve mastery. Altucher, an entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author, reveals alternative strategies and practical steps for mastering new skills quickly. By emphasising curiosity, resilience, and adaptability, he dismantles the traditional hierarchical approach to career advancement. In a world where industries vanish, job descriptions change, and personal passions evolve, Skip the Line is your guide to navigating these tumultuous waters.

In this eye-opening book, Altucher shares personal anecdotes and hard-earned wisdom, showing how he transitioned from a period of struggle and depression to realising his personal, financial, and creative dreams. He provides actionable advice on how to approach change and crisis, offering tools to help you execute ideas with ease, negotiate expertly, and attract attention from your peers. Moreover, Altucher teaches you how to scale promising ideas and improve your leadership skills, propelling you towards heights you previously deemed unattainable.

With Altucher's straightforward and no-nonsense style, Skip the Line empowers anyone to break free from conventional career paths and seize control of their destiny. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned professional looking for a change, or someone eager to explore new passions, this book offers the roadmap to make the impossible possible and achieve your dreams faster than you ever imagined.

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Skip the Line is praised for blending James Altucher's personal experiences with practical and unconventional advice. Reviewers find it a clear and engaging read intended to help readers develop skills for success.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780753557969

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 February 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virgin Books

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 351g

Pages: 288

About the Author

James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster and chess master. He has started and run more than twenty companies and is invested in over thirty. He is the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers The Power of No and Choose Yourself. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Financial Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He also writes a popular blog and hosts a successful podcast, The James Altucher Show.

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