Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Posted on 03 February 2017 by Eric Barker

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 ManBy looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be 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. Best Read [ Barking Up the Wrong Tree ] Author [ Eric Barker ] – kino-fada.fr Readable to the extreme Loved the way the author stepped back from all the psychology popular stuff He went to great length to show that all the go and become the hero , get it done approach, don t say quits until you drop stuff can be counterproductive at times, though not always Also loved the author s way of thinking He basically employs the recipe for dealing with most tasks where one size fits all answers are unlikely to work.Surprisingly memorable, with bright examples easing the Readable to the extreme Loved the way the author stepped back from all the psychology popular stuff He went to great length to show that all the go and become the hero , get it done approach, don t say quits until you drop stuff can be counterproductive at times, though not always Also loved the author s way of thinking He basically employs the recipe for dealing with most tasks where one size fits all answers ...Bad boys do well in life Much better than the class toppers, says Eric Barker, in his primer for success The best lessons in cooperation come from gang members, pirates and serial killers, continues Eric Barker in this how to strategize and be successful guide Sensational theories, but Barker, a former Hollywood screenwriter , uses stories, research studies and liberally quotes the gurus of productivity and psychology to buttress his analysis and advice The book has 6 chapters, all with cat Bad boys do well in life Much better than the class toppers, says Eric Barker, in his primer for success The best lessons in cooperation come from gang members, pirates and serial killers, continues Eric Barker in this how to strategize and be successful guide Sensational theories, but Barker, a former Hollywood screenwriter , uses stories, research studies and liberally quotes the gurus of productivity and psychology to buttress his analysis and advice The book has 6 chapters, all with catchy subtitles like Does Playing by the Rules Pay Off Insight from Valedictorians, People Who Feel No Pain, and Piano Prodigies Or What We Can Learn About Walking the Tightrope Between Confidence and Delusion from Chess Masters, Secret Military Units, Kung Fu Con Artists, and People Who Cannot Feel Fear In the chapter subtitled What Navy SEAL s, Video Games, Arranged Marriages, and Batman can Teach Us About Sticking it Out When Achieving Success ...We all have ideas of what we think makes people successful And though author Eric Barker claims to EXPLODE ALL THE MYTHS in this book, his ideas aren t actually all that crazy and certainly not so crazy that we ve never heard them before In fact, I recognizedthan a few ideas summarized from other books I ve read like Give and Take A Revolutionary Approach to Success, Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can t Stop Talking, Just Enough Tools for Creating Success in Your We all have ideas of what we think makes people successful And though author Eric Barker claims to EXPLODE ALL THE MYTHS in this book, his ideas aren t actually all that crazy and certainly not so crazy that we ve never heard them before In fact, I recognizedthan a few ideas summarized from other books I ve read like Give and Take A Revolutionary Approach to Success, Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can t Stop Talking, Just Enough Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life, and the list goe...Started off strong and then slowly lost steam First half of the book contains a few gems, but by the second half, the reflection gets to be a bit fluffier and less definitiveof the same from other books in the genre.Still worth reading for the first half though My favourite take aways Volunteering 2 hours a week is the sweet spot for maximum benefits to your overall happiness likeliness to stay alive 100hours per year Work hard but draw attention to it, every Friday send an ema Started off strong and then slowly lost steam First half of the book...I heard this audio book in my car whilst driving It was a good companion As Barker says he is not inventing the wheel here What he did was remind me of the lessons I had learned in the past and gave me new examples or case histo...Abandanded 50% of the way through It s rare that I abandon a book However, this book was enough of a struggle to get through that I decided to cut my losses It is not that book isn t well written it is It s not that it isn t slightly funny it is I gave up on reading it because the style was just not for me Each chapter seemed to hop, skip and jump all over the place The book covered all aspects of personal developmentfrom work life balance to networking to what makes people succe Abandanded 50% of the way through It s rare that I abandon a book However, this book was enough of a struggle to get through that I decided to cut my losses It is not that book isn t well written it is It s not that it isn t slightly funny it is I gave up on reading it because the style was just not for me Each chapter seemed to hop, skip and jump all over the place The book covered all aspects of personal developmentfrom work life balance to networking to what makes people successful andWithin each chapter the author seemed to both validate conventional wisdom but also spin a gladwell ian yarn about conventional wisdom isn t the only truth I ended up being confused about what the book was actually asserting Further, much of the book was a collage of quotes and citings of other semi famous non fiction aut...Why Everything You Know About Success Is Mostly Wrong, Unless You ve Read Any Other Productivity Book From this Century.On the plus side, productivity classics like Cal Newport s Deep Work Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, or Susan Cain s Quiet The Power of Introvert...It did that thing where the answer is pretty much it depends to every question about what folks should do with their lives That said, a pretty excellent book Solid tips on figuring shit out.The funnest, the most out of the box analysis, on the keys for successThis 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 disappoint one bit.Like Dale Carnegie, Eric Barker uses so many stories, book references and great quotations to make his points accross There are stories such as how a poor boy in Mexico can become a wor The funnest, the most out of the box analysis, on the keys for successThis 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 disappoint one bit.Like Dale Carnegie, Eric Barker uses so many stories, book references and great quotations to make his points accross There are stories such as how...What a thoughtful and entertaining book This gem kept me engaged as I learned about pirates and prisons and valedictorians success rate right out of the gate The author uses studies and facts to create arguments and then plays devils advocate to view a different side of the coin The lessons are told in a conversational way and asks questions that you can think a...

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03 February 2017

Eric Barker