Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals
Written by James Altucher
Narrated by James Altucher
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About this audiobook
The entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author of Choose Yourself busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional—no matter their age or managerial level—to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills they need to succeed and achieve their dreams.
We live in a hierarchical world where experience has traditionally been the key to promotion. But that period is over! Straight, clear-cut career trajectories no longer exist. Industries disappear, job descriptions change, and people’s interests and passions evolve. The key to riding this wave, entrepreneur James Altucher advises, is to constantly be curious about what’s next, to be comfortable with uncertainty so you can keep navigating the rough waters ahead, and most important, to pursue the things that interest you.
In Skip the Line, he reveals how he went from struggling and depressed to making his personal, financial, and creative dreams come true, despite—and perhaps due to—his many failures along the way. Altucher combines his personal story with concrete—and unorthodox—insights that work. But Skip the Line isn’t about hacks and shortcuts—it’s about transforming the way you think, work, and live, letting your interests guide your learning, time, and resources. It’s about allowing yourself to do what comes naturally; the more you do what you love, the better you do it. While showing you how to approach change and crisis, Altucher 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—all of which will catapult you higher than you ever thought possible and at a speed that everyone will tell you is impossible.
James Altucher
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster, standup comedian, 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, that has had over 80,000,000 downloads. An eight-episode docuseries based on Choose Yourself and produced by DNA Films was released on Amazon in 2020.
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Reviews for Skip the Line
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Genius ideas, radical thinking in a good way. A little scattered sounding and repetitive at a couple parts. But overall inspiring and super helpful. He cuts the crap and tells it how it really is.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was hungry and needed a way to feed myself and my family. I was so bored during the pandemic of 2020 that I wrote this book about me and my experiences.
A boring journal - Not for me... Mr. Altucher1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyed the audiobook. Great assembly of many of Altucher’s insights from his podcast.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic! The author is down to earth and encouraging. I enjoyed this book so much. I finished it in a day! ❤️❤️
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I listened while walking. There os much to learn from thos audiobook. I highly recommend it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved the no nonsense advice. This one is definitely worth a read! Thank you!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There’s always inspiration and practical actions to take from James Altucher. I appreciate his understanding of life and how well he communicates it through his own voice which brings out his personality. Easy to listen to and get the mind flowing out ideas. Useful book to put into practice to improve your life. He also name drops other books that inspired him. The author shares knowledge. That’s one of the many things that makes this worth listening to.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This read felt like I sat with James Altucher for a day and he shared his life with me with so many valuable lessons. I am glad I read this book at this stage in Meck Health.
Donald Okaragba - Founder & CEO, Meck Health - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Made me stretch my thinking. Would listen again and will definitely suggest the book.