Best business motivation books according to redditors
We found 507 Reddit comments discussing the best business motivation books. We ranked the 188 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 507 Reddit comments discussing the best business motivation books. We ranked the 188 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Rich Dad Poor Dad catches a lot of flak, but it's actually really good at teaching the absolute basics in an easy-to-follow manner. Like, learn what a Cash Flow Statement is, increase your asset column, learn basic accounting language, separate emotions and money, minimize taxes. Just glean the overall principles he's teaching and don't blindly follow his specific strategies.
The Richest Man in Babylon is another great, easy to read, investing 101 book.
And The Millionaire Next Door is a research-based book on Millionaires in America and what kind of habits and mindsets got them to their current wealth. It's a wonderfully refreshing read after being brainwashed by tv and movies saying that millionaires won it or stole it and live lavish lives. Most actual millionaires are pretty frugal and hard working with modest lives.
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And here are some resources to help you learn all the new words and concepts:
-- Microeconomics
-- Macroeconomics
-- Finance
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And when you get pretty familiar with the basics and want to start messing with stuff, I've enjoyed the Think or Swim paper money route. They give you $200,000 in fake money to play around with and invest and practice your strategies. It helps you get acquainted with the research and the interface and the fees for investing. It's a wonderful tool.
And then The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is supposed to be a pretty good comprehensive guide the advanced basics (is that a term?) of investing.
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Or if you want to skip alllll of this and just hire someone, I've read in those subreddits that you want to find a fee based financial adviser. Which you can do here.
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I hope I've helped man! It's a lot of fun to learn about. I wish you all the best.
Book recommendation for you: Disney Institute's Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
Just so you know, DD is a bit ambiguous in finance land and I was confused (I thought you had automated your direct deposit ala The Automatic Millionaire). I figured it out from context though.
But yes, I agree that you can get most of the benefit for little work. In MMM's example, he considers reducing expenses to be increasing his quality of life, so I read his blog from that perspective.
Personally, I enjoy thinking about optimizing. I'm an engineer and I like to see how much fluff I can cut out without negatively impacting our happiness. My wife isn't the same way, so she keeps me in check. I'm not as hardcore as MMM, but I do bike to work, do most of my own home repairs and rarely eat out, and sometimes to my wife I might as well be MMM (she grew up in a high spending, low income family, I grew up in the opposite).
Don't cut anything that will make you less happy. I think we and MMM can agree on that. =)
Out of the books I read, these were my favorite.
I suppose these focus less on "leadership" so much as management. But they are all helpful when it comes to thinking about being a leader.
I also can't stress enough the importance of being introspective, and taking the time for self reflection. It's crucial that you be able to take a look at yourself, and see how your actions affect others. How you make others feel. Things like that. I know that's not particularly helpful, but I guess all I can say is do whatever makes the most sense for you to make yourself a more empathetic human being.
Here are a few that I've found useful relating to teamwork, management, and/or general career shit:
It's a good question - a lot of people just assume they can't ever be rich.
No you don't need to get a degree. You don't need to get a high-paying job. You don't need to be Elon Musk unless we're talking billionaire rich.
Making money is about delivering value at scale. Either deliver a little bit of value to a lot of people, or deliver a lot of value to a few people. Or do both to rake it in - but this is usually harder.
The most accessible way to deliver value at scale is by building a business.
You also need to figure out why you want to be rich and what kind of rich. Do you want to build a massive empire and make hundreds of millions or does making a couple of million a year and getting to travel whenever you want sound better?
The basic steps are pretty simple. You've got to start by reprogramming your brain a fair bit. Rich people - especially entrepreneurs, don't think about the world in the same way as most people do. More on how to do this later.
After that you'll want to start exploring the opportunities open to you at the moment. There are lots of business models you can replicate and do really well with - you don't need to start completely from scratch and build something the world has never seen before. You would not believe the ridiculously niched business models people make stupid money from. Example - I know a guy who built an online health and safety testing form for oil rig workers that was making $20,000 a month.
When you're starting out it's a good idea to keep things simple and use it as a way to build your skills. You don't want to be trying to build the next Facebook while trying to learn the basics of business. You're probably not as smart as Mark Zuckerberg.
The point is you have to keep learning and learning and learning. You know the business section of the book store you've probably never looked at? Pick the right books and you can pretty much learn anything.
You've been fed a lot of bullshit your whole life - so you need to read:
BOOKS FOR REPROGRAMMING YOUR HEAD
It's pretty incredible how many successful people I've spoken to in the last few years have said something along the lines of "well it all started when I read the 4-Hour Work Week...". This is a great book that will give you a huge mindset adjustment and also a bunch of practical ideas and case studies of what you can do.
Those will give you a good start. Once you've picked something to work on, you'll want to start reading up on learning sales, mindset, strategy, mindset, business management, mindset and some more mindset. If you jump in you'll quickly find the hardest thing about business is usually dealing with yourself.
Hit me up if you take action on this and I'll be happy to recommend where to go next :)
Qualifications: grew up in a very modest (i.e. lower) part of town, parents worked in blue-collar professions, and started buying a rental property in the 1960's, then dad passed away (with four kids). Now definitely intergenerational wealth, all kids went to college in STEM, parents in their 90's (step-dad helped build up RE holdings to 36 units) with holdings in the 8-figures. No I haven't inherited any of it (yet) but well into middle age myself, make very good money (and will leave it at that), and have a few RE holdings.
> I'll have manager experience. I'm also reading a book called "real estate investing for dummies" and I just finished "rich Dad poor Dad"
Good for you, I didn't start reading books on anything finance related until well into my 20's, and then I read a lot of very good books. I don't think much of Kiyosaki, frankly, but as Brian Tracy said 'to earn more you must learn more'. So don't stop, keep on reading, and especially books over blog posts and short pieces. Why? Books will have more complex ideas and more research to back it up.
Regarding your game plan: you did not indicate what you are interested in doing, and what you do well, and what people will pay you to do, and what the world needs. Take a look at this ikigai graphic. Not sure if you know that welding or sales is this for you, and of course there are other things you may grow into. But hey if you have a good idea that this is the path you want to take, good for you!
I came here to say about sales, few salespeople are on Reddit, they are very busy making lots of money to talk about it. In my own (technical) sales field base runs from $65K up to $120K with another 40% commission, but you need to have the right background (STEM college degree, experience as a customer, and aptitude for outside sales) so barriers to entry are high. So yes, six figures in your late 20's is achievable, and it does take a lot of hard work, no doubt!
Of course owning your own business as a contractor, or becoming a top welder, or tons of other things you could do, I know of plenty of people who do very well.
Regarding the end goal, admirable, and I say your thinking is in the right place. The road to FI is varied - real estate is a very good method (the way my parents went, they bought low and held onto their properties in a HCOL area), investing into index funds another good method (again read books like Boglehead's Guide to Investing, or another favorite of mine on the sidebar called The Richest Man in Babylon) The amount these books can make you over five or ten years is a lot. Over 15 or 25 years is huge.
> Even if I don't get to enjoy it
I see many piling on here saying 'you should enjoy it' but I didn't interpret this comment in that way. You realize it's a road not many take (too many live way beyond their means, and don't have savings / passive income / true wealth to show for it). Yes there's sacrifice, and it takes a long time to build up $1,500 in monthly passive income much less $15,000, but people do this and often you cannot tell. (For example, look up the book The Millionaire Next Door.)
Are you on the right path? Definitely YES. The path to financial independence starts with a mindset, and the fact you are asking the question puts you out in front of all the peers of yours who are thinking about lots of other things, which you know all too well.
Will you make mistakes along the way? Of course, we are all human. The important thing is mindset, and the great thing of being younger is that you have time to make other choices, and learn along the way.
If he was initially resistant to going to school, it sounds like the sweatshirt was an excuse, not the actual reason. You may want to explore that further with him; as others have said, your counselors should be able to help with the situation.
But to address the part of your post about your response to him: You allowed him to shift the focus of what was bothering him. If you can step back and be objective about the situation, you'll see him trying to push your buttons (rudeness and disrespect) and can counteract that by not responding to it.
This may sound far-fetched, but there's an old business management book, designed to be a quick and easy read (although it takes a long time to figure out how to implement the ideas, like any other good system) that might help you get a handle on your own reactions: "The One Minute Manager".
What I noticed about it when I was learning to manage employees, years ago, is that many of the techniques are also good parenting techniques, particularly for adolescents. Kids are particularly good at shifting responsibility back to the parents, simply by acting out or pushing hot buttons. My SAH mother was an excellent 'kid' manager, and I recognized some of her techniques!
A later book which built on the principles in the One Minute Manger was called "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey"](http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/0688103804) which is even more appropos of your situation, since it highlights all the ways in which lazy employees try to con their managers.
Assigned tasks are the 'monkeys' which employees try to get the manager to do for them; the book highlights the ways in which managers fall for the ploys, and provides counters. But step one is recognizing what's happening at the time.
Take the sweatshirt issue (ignoring that there may be something else at the heart of this behavior, but just assuming there wasn't). He stood in the rain and got it wet and dirty, right? Why wasn't it his responsibility to wash and dry it, if he wanted to wear it the next day? He had a problem, his solution was to turn it into your problem--and you let him. But he's just being a kid and doing what adolescent kids do, which is see-sawing between growing up too fast and not growing up at all.
Your parenting job right now is to manage him past this behavior, and maybe treating him like an "employee"--someone capable of responsibility--is part of the answer. Of course, hugs and love are an acceptable part of this workplace!
Good luck to you!
I am reading a book right now called "Managing Oneself" by Peter F. Drucker. It's super short (60 pages with huge margins and large font). I think it might be worth your while to read. In it he talks about people exactly in your situation. He would postulate that maybe you're much better in a sub-management position than a management position. He would also postulate that it's not so much about "advancing your career" as it is figuring out where you fit in and how/what you contribute. In other words, perhaps you took this current job because you felt like you needed to advance your career because that's what people do. But the advancement of a career does not necessarily correlate with happiness.
I hope I don't sound like I am telling you this is the way it is. That's not my intention. Your situation just reminded me of the book I am reading and thought it might provide some alternative perspective and insight for you.
Good luck!
Being a millionaire isn't. Most people who are extraordinarily wealthy typically have average to slightly above average intellect. A large swath don't even complete college. This book does a pretty good job of exploring the idea. Here is another relatable article.
I was in a eerily similar situation in the same industry(not invited to meetings and excluded from company or team activities. Threats and bro culture was a bag of fun too...not). She needs to judge her situation carefully.
-Who can she actually trust? Someone in a higher position that she can confide in?
-Witnesses and documented issues
-If the company culture is douche-canoe and most people are cool with that nothing will change.
-Be careful with HR. Human Resources sounds nice but they are not your friend. I would make sure you have your ducks in a row and a back up plan.
-Think of transferring to another team or project that is less toxic. Ask people you know if there are any spots open.
Document everything and try to get things in writing. For example one commenter said she should ask why she is not invited to meetings so maybe she should ask that via email or with a trusted witness.
Personally I do not trust HR. EVER. My mistake was actually going to HR because a true corporate HR manager will always take the side of the company or people in a higher political structure. If you are attacking the company culture that has been established they really wont help you. Even with my proof and documentation things got worse and I knew that it was just a matter of time before they canned me for rocking the boat. So I peaced out muthfuckaaahs! haha
I wish I read this book before I took action: http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company-Know/dp/0312337361
Anyway. I am sure a lot of people will disagree with me in this subreddit(lots of HR people here) but that was my experience with a super toxic place where anyone who complained got the shit stick. If she wants things to get better she will have to go through HR anyway but just make sure she is totally protected and armored with documentation and proof. If shit does hit the fan she will have that as a weapon.
I graduated from a top-tier university with really great GPA, great opportunities, and surrounded by ambitious friends. About a year after graduation, my life was in shambles. I didn't have a job and I sat around doing very little most of the time. It took me over a year to get a job (a terrible one) and almost five more years to crawl back into the real working world.
Given that background, here's a few pieces of advice I can offer:
To circle back to my first point about fear, recognize that fear is usually a result of pushing toward the unknown or stepping outside of your comfort zone. Given that your current comfort zone isn't very comfortable for you, recognize that when you feel fear, you're thinking about changing something or actively changing something. Even if you just walk up to that fear bubble and stick your toe out of it and recoil, congratulate yourself on confronting your fear. Period. It's a bold move and for many people fear keeps them locked into things they are not happy with.
Splitting these big commitments up into smaller pieces helps you overcome your own mental hurdles. It helps you celebrate the small wins (I went INTO the gym this week! I ran on the treadmill for 5 minutes!) -- which are what matter. If you can string together 15-20 small wins in a row, you're well on your way to whatever goal you set.
First, you are comparing apples and oranges. Any time you compare yourself to someone else you're taking your own internal thoughts and feelings and comparing them to someone's projection of themselves. What you're doing is looking at people's proverbial Facebook feeds (where only the good stuff gets posted) and comparing it to your own life (where both good and bad things happen). People's lives are all different and all face unique sets of challenges. Even the most successful people you know struggle mightily with issues that you aren't aware of. DO NOT fall into this trap and whenever you do, close Facebook / Instagram / Twitter and go for a walk.
Second, learn your own origin story. Again, this might sound stupid, but I am firm believer in this strategy. I told you above that my life fell apart within a year of graduating from school. What I didn't tell you was how obvious it should have been to everyone that this would happen. Looking back, I have come to understand all the decisions I made as my best attempt to survive the various stages of my life. Without getting into too many of my own details, I quickly realized that MY story was an integral part of ME and it is a key differentiator between myself and many other people I meet today. Very few people I meet have gone through some of the shit I've gone through and very few people have developed some of the behaviors and oddities that I developed to even be ALIVE today. So, when I find myself saying "you're almost 30 and haven't done 'blah blah blah' I tell myself "hey you're on your own path, doing your own thing and, given your origin story, you're doing pretty goddamn well for yourself."
>Most importantly, do you guys believe I can change for the better?
You've got it backwards. All of your questions above are far more important than this one. Yes, it's nice to have some people who believe in you and what you're doing, but those shouldn't be strangers on the internet. Build a support circle. Find someone that you can be weak and lost and confused in front of. That's part of this process and it's part of life. It doesn't matter what I think (nor would my answer to this question have any bearing on reality). It's entirely up to you what you do and what paths you choose to take.
edit: I needed to clean up the formatting a bit. I hope that was helpful.
throwaway (despite the name) is legit.
If you want to know more about the stock market and why index funds are where it's at, check out A Random Walk down Wall Street. You learn things like 80% of "managed" mutual funds perform worse than index funds. not only that, managed funds charge much more in the way of fees, effectively charging you more to lose money. He also investigates if the stock market is correlated with fashionable skirt length in women or the superbowl champion (yes these are real theories).
If you want to learn more about personal finance, check out The Richest Man in Babylon. To this day one of my favorite books. If you let money be your master, you will always be a slave. If you are the master of your money, no one can ever own you. fuck yeah.
I strongly encourage you to finish and get your degree. Yes a degree is better than no degree. But I feel that there's more to it than just 'having a degree.'
College is what you make of it. In this last year, you have two scenarios.
You could 1) get by with the minimum amount of work and 'get your degree'
OR
2) work your ass off, network, apply for internships/jobs/clubs, learn things while NOT in class(whether it be picking up a new skill/developing your mind/programming/etc.), i.e. get your sht together.
I recommend you read the 10X Rule by Grant Cardone or watch some content on the Simple Programmer YT channel by John Sonmez. I wrote a blog post reviewing the 10X Rule too. You might pick up some external motivation, but hopefully, you eventually become intrinsically motivated to be a badas.
The younger you start savings the better off you'll be. Even if it's just a little every day.
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-power-of-compound-interest-2014-7
READ: The Richest Man in Babylon
READ: Rich Dad Poor Dad
Do this, and you'll be ready to be on your own.
There are a number of books that I think you ought to read to get a better understanding of office politics and how to cope/deal with them. All offices have politicking going on, and any company that claims otherwise is lying to you. Any time more than 2 people get together, there will be some sort of jostling for power and attention. When that happens at work, we call it "office politics".
Your library may have these, and if you get them, read them at home. Don't ever bring them into the office.
Corporate Confidential. HR is your enemy, not your friend. Gives a number of examples of what will destroy your career with companies, many of which you (and I) probably do without realizing the consequences.
The Passionate Programmer. The first edition of this book was called "my job went to India". While aimed at programmers, the points are to keep your mind and skills up to date as technology and business move too rapidly to let things get rusty.
To Be or Not to Be Intimidated.
Looking out for number one.
Million Dollar Habits. I feel that these 3 by Robert Ringer are very important. If you think his first book was about to intimidate others, you only read the press coverage. If you think his books are about real estate, then you only skimmed them. There are a lot of people in the world who will try to intimidate you into giving up what is yours, and he shows you what some of them are like, and what countermeasures you can use.
The Art of Deception. Bad title - it is about arguments, how to make them, win them and tell if you're hearing a bad one. Used to be called "rhetoric" when Plato and Aristotle taught the subject.
Snakes in Suits. There are some evil people out there. You'll work for some of them. You will be stabbed in the back by some of them.
Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People. One book on office politics and dealing with some of the worse sort.
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work. Some folks are very good with verbal manipulation, this book and the others in the series, cover how to deal with such people.
Winning with People. Most of the books this author writes are about managers and leadership. This book is more about people skills. It will be focused more at managers, but I think it is a good one.
The 48 Laws of Power. They have it. You want some. Light read with anecdotes. I like his other books as well.
Games At Work. Office politics.
It's All Politics. Yes it is.
Moral Politics. Liberals and conservatives, why do they think that way? You'll work with some of the opposite persuasion some day, so understanding where they come from is a reasonable idea. Most books on this subject are insulting and degrading, but I think this one is pretty much judgement-free.
> When I walk by him going to the bathroom, he will stop talking until I walk by.
Do the same. When they come to your desk, always brush them aside with "I'm sorry, I can't talk now, I'm busy working".
Ich habe jedes dieser Bücher gelesen und kann es empfehlen. Ich würde jedes davon wieder kaufen und wieder lesen.
You want fucked-up? A friend worked for a Very Large Bank in America and was in a conference room waiting for some other attendees to arrive, and someone asked him what he had done that weekend.
"I was in a pistol competition." he replied.
Later that afternoon, corporate security escorted him to HR, and then off the property with a "no tresspassing" letter. Out of work.
Turns out that one of the people in the room had applied for the open position that he had ended up getting. So they took the opportunity to tell HR "I felt threatened", and everything naturally followed from there. And they were promoted into his place.
https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company-Know-ebook/dp/B003K15PC4
I highly recommend 'Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why':
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-Promoted-Doesnt-Second/dp/160774600X
A long time ago I switched work with my coworker sitting next to me to see what the manager would say to us regarding our work. He usually rejected my work but praised my coworkers. After the switch he rejected my coworker's work(that I checked in as mine) and he accepted my work(that my coworker checked in as his). I brought this up with my manager and he kicked me off the team and promoted my coworker....lol wat.
My female coworkers who worked with him had no problem with him and thought of him as a good boss and they were shocked to hear how he treated me. That made me think that it wasn't to do with my gender but probably more to do with me not being in his clique(which my co-worker was part of). Or he just didn't like me and was not professional enough to do his job efficiently. Sure the fact that I did the switch could be seen as starting shit or unprofessional but I don't regret finding out. I'm not sure what I would do if I could go back because I'm sure anything I did would have the same result.
I don't know the culture or dynamics of your office or team so it really could be anything. Maybe he is a sexist asshole or an unprofessional asshole....
I recommend the book Corporate Confidential. https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company-Know/dp/0312337361
I wish I read this years ago.
For me it all started with checking out The Automatic Millionaire from the library. Started reading more library books about personal finance, and then snowballed from there.
Came here to say the exact same thing.
The Richest Man in Babylon is a 200 page book. It's a fictional story about a couple of different people and their financial situations. It's set way back in history.
There are 8 rules to becoming wealthy.
The Millionaire Next Door changed my entire perspective on money and life. If you read no other PF book, read that one - it's an eye opener. Along the same lines, I'd recommend Your Money or Your Life. If you don't want to be really hands-on with your finances (I have a lot of friends like this) I usually recommend The Automatic Millionaire. It's got a infomercial-esque title, but in reality it's an easy read with really good ideas, particularly for the uninterested/inattentive.
As for investing, try The Boglehead's Guide to Investing. A lot of the info is free at the Boglehead Wiki.
For FREE reading, head over to The Simple Dollar and Get Rich Slowly. Both are incredibly useful websites with extensive archives on investing, frugality, debt, and all things personal finance. I read both every day!
(as an example, here's an article on the 25 Best Books About Money over at GRS.)
A lot of people like Dave Ramsey, but I don't recommend him very much. He's got good advice in there, but his books contain religious references that I feel are particularly useless in a personal finance guide.
A book that's somewhat related to this is Corporate Confidential. It's a goldmine of information about employment from the Human Resources perspective. In relation to this specific event, when an employee brings a lot of controversy or the possibility of legal action against the company they'll usually get fired. Doesn't necessarily mean it's morally right, but that is what will generally happen regardless of other factors.
Be Our Guest comes to mind.
https://www.amazon.com/Be-Our-Guest-Perfecting-Institute/dp/1423145844
you're not alone.
books that have helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Somebody-Around-Insider-Secrets-Hired/dp/0312373341
Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them by Cynthia Shapiro
Link: http://amzn.com/B003K15PC4
No one will ever tell you they have an issue with you. No one likes confrontation and they figure if you don't know the imaginary, unofficial rules of Corporate America, then you don't belong there anyway.
HR is not there for you. HR is there to keep the company from getting sued. Makes friends with someone and ask them to give you honest feedback about how you behave/come across and any insider tips on the culture at the office. It's the only way to survive.
I've never been at a job more than a couple years. Edit: mostly because I don't do politics and butt kissing and get so bored I stop doing my job.
The Millionaire Mind is a book based on such a study you describe:
The Millionaire Mind targets a population of millionaires who have accumulated substantial wealth and live in ways that openly demonstrate their affluence. Exploring the ideas, beliefs, and behaviors that enabled these millionaires to build and maintain their fortunes, Dr. Stanley provides a fascinating look at who America's financial elite are and how they got there.
The Millionaire Mind https://www.amazon.com/dp/0740718584/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_BY2LDbJYPQRD8
I got the Richest Man in Babylon! by George S. Clason out of college It was published in 1926 and is still great advice. There is also a free audio version here!. The book is written very differently than most personal finance books. The author uses parables to teach financial lessons. This makes it a great introduction for the financial newbie. The part that most stuck with me is:
"“A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods."
I joined the Peace Corps after college so I didn't get around to implementing Mr. Clason's advice. For some reason, over the three year period I was out of the US, his advice changed in my memory to three-tenths. So since I got my first full-time professional job at 27, I have been aiming to save 30% of income. I haven't always met this goal but I have averaged saving at least 20% of my gross income.
This past May, I read Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence! which introduced me to FIRE. While I'm a little sad about the 6 years, I wasn't saving for FIRE, the savings I accumulated is a great start. The approach in this book has been very useful in figuring out what I am willing to give up in order to increase my SR and achieve FIRE sooner.
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You may want to check out One Simple Idea by Stephen Key. Perhaps you can create a prototype and license your idea to a large company so you don't have to build out distribution yourself.
To provide a better plan, keep
theany job one more year. During this time live as cheaply as possible and put all the money into paying off the loans and savings. During this time start working on the prototype in your spare time, show some proof of concept that it actually works. Now you might be ready to go start your business and it will only take a year or so.Check this out - http://www.amazon.com/Quitter-Closing-Between-Your-Dream/dp/0982986270/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394824738&sr=8-1&keywords=quitter
edit: Keep any job, it doesn't have to be the current job but you can't afford to start your own business right now.
Agreed - A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the best book out there.
Also, see The Automatic Millionaire. This is a convincing book as to why you need to start saving for retirement at a young age, and how every year you wait to start saving can result in tens of thousands lost at retirement. (Essentially - compound interest starts compounding hugely after 25 years).
Also, Fooled by Randomness is a classic as well about having a sophisticated approach to investing - e.g. how randomness fools individuals into thinking that they're actually controlling the market in investing...
give this book a read.
honestly I am just starting to try it out too, so I don't know all the answers.
but yeah, a provisional sounds like a good place to start
>mitä varten te ylipäätänsä säästätte
Ei täyspäiväinen työnteko nappaa. Olen järjestänyt asiani kivasti ja en usko että mun tarvii koskaan käyä töissä toimeentulon takia. Muuten toki voi käyä puuhastelemassa.
Jos vinkkijuttuja kaipaat niin lukase pari kirjaa:
Think and grow rich
The richest man in babylon
How rich people think
Seven strategies for wealth and happiness
Ihan sillee ympäripyöreesti avaan: Köyhyys ja rikkaus on elämäntapoja. On köyhiä joilla on vitusti massia (brittiläinen koditon lottovoittaja ryyppäs rahansa vuodessa, on jälleen persaukinen) ja rikkaita joilla on vaan vähän (vaikka miljonääri somaliassa voi olla vitun rikas paikallisesti mutta maailmalla suhteellisen varaton).
This is something you should think deeply about, and take my thoughts with a grain of salt. You can start building your portfolio right now and surpass the skill level of all of the students in 1 year to their 4 years. If you are dedicated and you practice your craft, research, and really dig deep you can be hirable within a year. College is a huge waste of money and doesn't guarantee shit. I just finished reading this book which talks a lot on the subject and has influenced my opinion.
https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367?
From 1926. You can probably find versions floating around on the internet. I don't think it actually talks about tithing, though.
I like these anecdotes that show the power of compound interest. Here is another from The Automatic Millionaire. I saw something like this in my early 20s, and being a math nerd, I've been compelled to max out my retirement contributions ever since. I'm now in my early 40s and have around $700k saved for retirement. The future is looking pretty sweet.
I reccomend reading a book like "The Millionaire Mind" and "Dare to Lead: Uncommon Sense and Unconventional Wisdom from 50 Top CEOs." Not everyone plays dirty to win though difficult decisions do arise in any long-running, large business. I really came to enjoy "The Millionaire Mind" because it valued thrifty living and being honest and personable rather than cutthroat, cutting corners, and playing fast and loose.
Maybe checkout The One Minute Manager. It sounds like you definitely won't be in a leadership position, but if you've been out of the corporate environment it might be a good primer for what to expect from the manager-employee relationship. It describes how to be a good manager, but it does so through in the context of trying to grow a successful team and so reading the book should give you an idea of what it means to have a healthy/productive relationship with your supervisor. Also, it's just a good book on leadership: I actually received it from my former CO when I was a firefighter moving up the chain at my station, but it was definitely applicable at my corporate job.
Also, all that said, here's my biggest tip for you: don't just be a silent employee and expect your work to speak for itself. Interact with your supervisor on a regular basis. Try not to be annoying about it, but if you get an assignment, check back with them to make sure you understood what they need. If you returned some kind of project to them, make sure it was what they asked for. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Ask lots of questions. These interactions serve several purposes:
I hope I've instilled in you how critically important it is that you develop some kind of relationship with your supervisors if you're able. Maybe your call center will be different from the one at my office, but I doubt it. This isn't the military: the people who succeed are the ones who stand out, not the ones who fall in line and conform.
Good luck with the new job, and good luck getting noticed!
I feel ya. 8 years at my first job. I know, I know... Waaaay too long.
It paid the bills, had a flexible schedule, allowed me to do freelance. The problem was that it also sucked the creative life out of me and, due to the position's limited capacity, has kind of hamstrung my career path. Now that I'm married and looking to up my game for the next phase of life, I see how staying here has hurt me. (which isn't to say it hasn't had its advantages, like making contacts, etc)
Rather than feeling stuck at your current job, think of it as a springboard for getting to your next (or dream) job. That's what I've been learning as I read Quitter.
> What do you mean by acting like a child?
Stop spending like a retard and fucking anything with a moist hole. You said in a different post that there are a lot of women, men and sex. Enjoy the STI's and superficial women who base your worth on the brand names you wear. You're investing in status symbols to put on a show for other people, STOP IT.
> Like where do I find investing and tax professionals? HR Block?
Dave Ramsey's ELP list would be a good place to start looking.
A little reading might be in order as well:
Try to find someone who would loan the book to you, or visit the library. I've been through each one of these in audio book format while I drive for work. They should all be available at the bay, but check your library first.
Sure, scientists are wage slaves, but they are also above uncredentialed workers in a very distinct hierarchy. Professionals are expected to assign their creativity to whatever benefits their bosses/owners, but do this without direct supervision. They internalize the logic of capital to a much greater degree than a nonprofessional worker who is simply expected to follow orders. Disciplined Minds is a brilliant analysis of the professional class with a focus on science and the academy. The audio book version is free.
I think he's taking a lot of those ideas from the book "Disciplined minds". However, that book is only looking at people who went to graduate school. I remember hearing Chomsky giving positive comments on this book in the past.
As others have said, you can get a provisional patent application filed. From what I understand, these are quite cheap. With this and a working prototype, you can start pitching your ideas to companies. There's some books out there that might help: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159
If you don't want to sell your idea, you might be able to do some fundraising with sites such as Kickstarter.com
Remember to do some market research and learn how to sell ideas and marketing. People have great ideas but don't know how to sell them. Do homework before investing your own money. Most products are never commercialized and only half that are turn out to be successful. Learning to do things right could save you a lot of money.
> I figure, since I was here first, he needs to go.
Unfortunately, even though that's all good and well your head, reality doesn't reflect this. In 99% of the cases of worker bees trying to overpower a member of management, the worker bee WILL lose. Right or wrong, management will stand together unless something is overtly grievous - and that means blatantly illegal with evidence.
You're better off spending time and energy finding a new job.
Trust me. I didn't take similar warning signs and didn't even rock the boat. Got a new boss a little over a year ago. Despite "meeting expectations" in 2017, 2018 has brought me a "performance review." He wrote me up on stupid, daily, human little things that aren't a problem. Never have had a problem ever and I'm mid career. Dbag decided I needed to be gotten rid of, and all of a sudden not being trained on something new is a problem. Being "two weeks late" when someone with more authority than either of us pushed the meeting back that two weeks was somehow my problem. You get the drift: stupid, nitpicky, irrelevant junk that doesn't matter WILL get written up and you WILL be given notice.
Neither your time nor energy is worth spending on a loser. Bail while you still have your own terms to exit on. The company will figure it out when the team becomes a turnover problem and he's left holding the bag.
If you're going into battle, do not go unarmed.
off the top of my head:
Meditations, with The Inner Citadel as a reader
Letters from a Stoic
A Guide to the Good Life by Irvine
Do The Work by Pressfield as well as The War of Art by Pressfield
Managing Oneself by Ducker
Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl
What Predicts Divorce by Gottman
Nicomachean Ethics
Models by Manson seems to be popular on reddit
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Newport, as well
I'm currently reading Triumphs of Experience by Vaillant and find it insightful.
12 years old, but I think it would still apply: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth by Ric Edelman. Also, Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
I highly recommend this insight book for starters:
http://www.amazon.fr/The-Richest-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367
One Simple Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259589676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_W-NQCbB252MCA
You should also add this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372953575&sr=8-1&keywords=disciplined+minds
Take $6.99, go to the bookstore, buy The Richest Man in Babylon.
This reminds me of... Corporate Confidential, a book by Cynthia Shapiro. In it, she talks about situations just like this and other eye opening shenanigans companies pull.
I'm a huge fan of corporate confidential. Retaliation is real, but if something this bad happened then the company probably won't risk it.
English isn't my 1st language.
Ok so vyvanse is a stimulant. It the little brother of Adderall but you can't abuse it because the neurostimulant isn't in the pills. The pills work as a catalyze for you liver to produce the right amount of neurostimulant for you brain.
So if you have a lot of protein when you take your pills you will get a better boost of energy.
First month are like heaven. Limitless like... until it come to a point where you feel all the secondary effect. Depends on your body but me my skin was so tight, my teeth was sensible and I had to drink a lot of water...
Those effect are not strange to an overdose of amphetamine ... vyvanse is an amphetamine.
I stopped using it because the benefits didn't outweight the drawback.
I was put on concerta since then.
But a pills ain't a magical remedy you need to work on yourself and to understand ADHD.
ADHD is like diabetes ... instead of your blood lacking insuline you're lacking dopamine receptor.
This video will start you on understanding more ADHD/ADD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE
I recommend reading : Healing ADD form Dr. Daniel G Amen.
But don't purchase is home healing kit it's retarded as fuck. His home healing kit are for stupid mom who put there kids too early on ritatin or think that because her boy's can't stand still and prefer to play videogame they must certainly have adhd.
Get a good psychologist. One that work with other ADHD people. I'm followed by one and it's like my self-development mentor. He's there to help you even if you need to pay him but it will help you. I see him really like on of the only person that I can talk about the struggle that I have with being productive or dealing with emotions. Like this subreddit instead of talking about sexual strategy you talk about self-development)
Clean your lifestyle.
Videogame or everything that come close to instant gratification when you day is just starting it's a no no ... especially at the beginning of your treatment. Your Dopamine is like your willpower. It isn't infinite. An ADHD person don't have a lot of it or can't produce at a faster rate. Everything that is instant gratification is your worst enemy in the long run. As said in the video : You're the most high-tech rocket on the planet earth with the most powerful computer... but you have no fuel. You can't move....
But you will say ( especially under vyvanse ) but dude i'm super productive I found all the info I needed for my paper way faster than before ... or some shit like that... You will start being productive at being unproductive. I was able to teach myself a shitload of thing about dieting/nutrition/fitness ... but I forgot to do my school assignment... I was productive at being unproductive.
What was the most useful to me at that point was getting good grades not reading about nutrition, that can come after I've done my task. It's like taking a shit but not pulling your pants down ... you get thing done ... but not in the logical order.
How do you know you're moving in the right way ?
Be accountable.
Start scheduling your life. Put the big rock 1st etc... This will give you an idea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNmIxkyHd8
Be A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E
Ex : I keep a pen&paper log for my gym session ... multiple time I thought I wouldn't need it ... 2-3 day later I found myself skipping gym day. There is something that push me to go back and get stronger in writing down the number I just lifted.
It will develop a good quality that men's of today lack : Rigorousness and discipline.
The think is to have the habits of scheduling your day and start doing what you scheduled when it pop-off on your phone/agenda/computer/what ever. I had the bad habits of scheduling my day but pressing ''snooze'' on the even that keep popping up.
Summary : By scheduling you have more control over your life. More control = less anxiety and less screwing around. We ADHD can't see the consequences in the future. We have a great skill to see the big picture but don't feel it. I'm sure you are like this when you start a team project ... you wait before everything fit in the big picture before starting the 1st step ahaha. 2nd great skill is : You can be overfocused ( on the wrong thing ) and achieve thing faster than everyone else. By scheduling you gain control day by day instead of doing a sprint at the end. Life is a marathon.
2nd worst ennemy : " I don't feel like it"
I still struggle with this one.
You're weapon : you need to trick your brain.
Need to study or start the research for a paper or w/e ... ADHD have a problem with estimating time ... When people ask me how much time it will take me ... I DON'T KNOW ... It will take the time that it will take ...
So to trick my brain I schedule 15min ... yeah just that
What it will do :
In 15min you will have time to understand the problem you have in front of you. You will have the good informations to guess how much time it can take you to achieve your task, information that you didn't have prior to that. In 15min your anxiety will rise and plateau. That feeling of not being able to finish something and feeling of being overwhelm by the task will seem much smaller now. You gain control of the #1 survivability skill that your ancestor gave you : Connecting the dots.
When the hunter saw the footprint on the grass he connected the dots between seeing the footprint but not seeing the prey, and estimating that there was something there and it's now gone. You're brain connected the dots from previous experience and future outcomes and came up with prediction... what we call instinct/guts in some case.
When you start nothing you're in an illusion of control. You can't have feedback if you're not doing the actions and it's much simpler to imagine the outcomes. That is where procrastination gain is power, in the illusion of control. Much simpler to learn about stupid shit on reddit than to learn what you saw in class. The same "pathway of neurone" (By that I'm illustrating the fact that you brain gain the same satisfaction, you're brain is always developing himself) are used but one give greater outcomes than the other.
You become stronger by Feedback Analysis Further reading on that : Managing Oneself by Peter f. Drucker
BUT BE CAREFUL !!!
Do not become Rigid ... this is where discipline come into play.
Rigidity in a lifestyle come from having your standard way to high. You need to hit the ball before scoring home-run.
What do you do if you didn't start where you needed to start ? You reschedule in the hopes that the next time you will feel better and be more prepare or you try to use the rest of the time you schedule and try to use it as much as you can ?
I struggled with that and I still do but I have a better control over it.
I found myself skipping gym session because I didn't feel I would be able to do my Strength Set and after my Hypertrophy set ... so I didn't go to the gym...
One is better than zero.
Now when I feel exhausted or my anxiety is too high I say to myself : OK just go there and do your Strength set and call it off. So I go there do my set and.... magically my brain is in the right mood and I finish what I needed to do ! MAGIC ... not just science.
Note : The program I'm using is 5/3/1 from JimWendler.
In summary : Once your task is scheduled but you don't feel like it or there is an ''emergency'', Try to at least start something or do the One thing that give you the best outcomes. In my exemple : Strength is what build muscle, hypertrophy are just for aesthetic so I needed to at least do my strength set. Lower your standard so you don't feel overwhelm but the anxiety and start ASAP the task you needed to do.
I lost my line of thought will post this for now and come with everything I feel is missing.
I tried to write for an ADHD person and for a normal person. My english isn't perfect but everything seem fine.
TL:DR : Hey you weaktards there isn't a TL;DR. Feel the pain of reading a wall of text or maybe you're just not that interested in learning more about ADHD and you can go back touching yourself over GW or liking Cat picture over imgur.
Not specific to IT, but a good read with universal applicability:
Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423145844/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_vg7FybM4XF4NB
Absolutely! Here's a short list of non-magic books that I commonly see recommended to magicians.
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
Purple Cow - Seth Godin
Delft Design Guide - multiple authors
An Acrobat of the Heart - Stephen Wangh (shouts out to u/mustardandpancakes for the recommendation)
In Pursuit of Elegance - Guy Kawasaki
The Backstage Handbook - Paul Carter, illustrated by George Chiang
Verbal Judo - George Thompson and Jerry Jenkins
Be Our Guest - Ted Kinni and The Disney Institute
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
Lots of common themes even on such a short list. What would you add to the list? What would you take away?
> Just what the heck is this shit?
professionalization... theres a good book about how the process convinces you to do things you would consider ridiculous or even contrary to your values
He needs to get a working prototype in hand, get help from a marketer for a sales pitch and get it in front of people from True Temper or Jackson(two of the largest wheel barrow manf). This is not something I would try to bring to market myself, but I would try hard to license this to companies with the infrastructure and retail systems in place already.
This is a great book on the topic by Stephen Key.
Read One Simple Idea... it will tell you everything you need to know. I have read it myself because I am considering licensing something or trying to and it was extremely helpful.
http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318697547&sr=8-1
I've heard very good things about this book: http://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/0684852861
The Richest Man in Babylon
Exactly. But the sediment prevalent in many of the comments, and in society in general, is that you need to have "x" to be successful. And that "x" is unattainable so you shouldn't bother to try. I disagree. The vast majority millionaires are first generation rich. J. Stanley covers this in a number of his books. And his blog.
The studies in his books are far more in depth but his blog post sums it up best. "Yes you do have a greater chance of becoming a millionaire if you attend the top rated school in America. But the majority of the most economically productive people in America did not attend an elite college of university. Success is more about how you focus your mind upon opportunities and less about your absolute level of analytic intellect. "
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives
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This book would answer yes. It's been a while since I've read it, admittedly. But what really stuck with me was the idea that school, in the case of the book it was graduate level schooling, selected for people that were willing to submit to the demands of the institution and the individuals that made it up regardless of how absurd those demands were. Graduate students aren't exactly known for loving their lives as they have to deal with committees, panels, advisors, and a multitude of other factors that each hold a part of the key to their future, not to mention themselves. If those parts of the keys don't line up, then a graduate student will fail.
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From a critical standpoint of capitalism, a benevolent perspective is that self-discipline gives individuals the opportunity to make sure the part of their own key is fashioned to reduce as much friction with the other parts to increase the chances of that key lining up. But, even so, every individual exists within a social context that will go a long way to determining that individual's future just as much, if not more than, the individual's own actions. Hence the focus on collectivizing in modes of life that collectivists have. Success isn't about achieving something as an individual. So, while self-discipline is still useful from the anti-capitalist perspective, it's not quite as useful as picket lines and strikes and whatnot.
Get the book.
The richest man of babylon. This helped me lots with refunding the loans.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Richest-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/
And read through it all and apply.
In regards to the 'reason' you got fired - companies do this a lot of the time when terminating employees. There will be an incident (such as the one with your co-worker) with a resource that places you on an unwritten blacklist. Once an infringement of company policy occurs (no matter how small) - the resource will terminated for the 'official' reason. It's dishonest and doesn't allow people to grow from the real cause of their termination, but is done due to the overly litigious society we live in.
I reccommend reading a book called Corporate Confidential which will tell you a variety of scary things an HR department does behind the scenes.
I'm not going to berate you more for your mistake, I just hope things turn around quickly for you.
I would recommend checking out this book:
"What Color Is Your Parachute"
It helped me incredibly, good luck!!
Always save 10% of your income.
Figure out ways to invest your savings so that hey multiply
I highly recommend this book: The Richest Man in babylon
ever read the 1 minute manager series?
https://www.amazon.com/New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0062367544/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2WJQE87R7QGXRWYJPM2V
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basically, you build them up, correct them, and build them up. sandwich approach.
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What do your parents want you to do, long term? take over the business, or have your own career?
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I would think of yourself as a owner of the business, and I expect others to think of you as their eventual boss. vs co worker or just another employee.
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You're going to need about 2 million saved/invested if you don't want to eat your seed corn (so to speak) and make that money last another 40 plus years.
You can invest directly with Vanguard, Schwab or Fidelity and avoid the sleazy bankers.
Are you in the military and have a TSP? It is a very good program. If you are working for a private contractor do they have a 401K and you should be investing in a Roth IRA.
I would recommend Four books to get you started:
https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Mutual-Funds-Imperatives/dp/0471392286/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498405283&sr=1-3&keywords=Common+sense+on+Mutual+funds
https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Larimore/dp/0470067365
https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498405326&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Millionaire++next+door
https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Mind-Thomas-J-Stanley/dp/0740718584/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0740718584&pd_rd_r=ZAD0ZV4E79MXHZDZTE2B&pd_rd_w=SlHQm&pd_rd_wg=h8174&psc=1&refRID=ZAD0ZV4E79MXHZDZTE2B
Went through something like this recently. I’m 36. Never second guess having ambitions. Just have a plan and can articulate them. Also don’t be a dick. That never helps your case.
First, have a plan. Know what you want or at least an idea. Is it a specific role? Do you know what you need to learn / gain experience with in order to get it? What stretch assignments can you do and who can your shadow to build experience?
Second, start thinking about other employers who might be able to offer what you want. If you can, reach out to managers there to talk about your career aspirations. Your current employer is not the only way to grow. You don’t owe them anything more than a day’s work for a day’s pay.
Third, pull your manager aside and bluntly but professionally tell them what you want. Ask for their advice on how to get there, tell them what you’re doing on your own to build experience and ask for stretch assignments. Ideally, make a plan together that has deliverables on both sides.
Finally, see #2. Have a backup plan and be prepared to leave. There may be lots of reasons (budget for example) they can’t promote you that are beyond your immediate manager’s control. Alternatively, maybe your employer is taking you for granted and you are most valuable to them where you are. Or maybe there’s a personality conflict between you and your manager. If any of these is the case you’re not getting promoted, so it’s best to consider other options.
This book really helped put things into perspective for me. I still didn’t get the promotion I was looking for but have now taken a lateral move to build more experience (sometimes change is good). I figure if I’m not on track in a year I’ll go to the competition.
Good luck!
[edit] also if you want to be client facing, I suggest learning some sales skills.
> "only votes matter"
It was never claimed, and the quotation marks are unjustified.
> complete bullshit
Spoken like a leader. Proof by profanity?
> make your own
Maybe consider taking your own advice? This whole schism could have been avoid by creating /r/serious_boardgames or something, rather than modifying an existing community.
> I'll continue working on curating /r/boardgames to be the best board game forum I can
Nobody doubts that. What is being doubted is your ability to make a good one.
> cause some people to be upset while they get used to them.
This is not how to lead effectively. This is known as bad management. Read a simple book on it like The One Minute Manager or many others, and you will learn that what you are doing is a textbook example of how to do things terribly, and that there are much better ways to lead people. Here's a hint: part of it involves listening to people.
Honestly I would just read Richest Man in Babylon and use the 10 / 70 / 20 principle they talk about. Use that through college and then when you graduate you can have a much more meaningful conversation about finance. (cause you will have money to use)
Just posted this (http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2q8q0y/i_have_a_non_complicated_invention_how_can_i_help/) and think it relates to you, too, TurtleHustler:
Read this book! http://www.amazon.com/Invent-It-Sell-Bank-Million-Dollar/dp/0804176434
And this one: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159
If you don't want to run the business and manufacturing yourself do consider the slim chance of licensing the product. InventRight could help then. I think it ups the odds of getting a licensing deal . . . if the product is worthwhile. Too many think they have innovative products when it's, like, a disposable cat bowl.
Cover yourself with the right documents, too. NDA, non-circumvention, non-compete, you know the game.
The reality is most people will say they'll buy but how many would put their money where their mouth is come down to it? The first book mentioned does talk about that in a very enlightening, reality-inspiring way.
You could see about going the Kickstarter route if you need funding. I'd at least go patent-pending beforehand. Big companies can canvas that site often for ideas.
The Four-Hour-Workweek approach is a safe one, too, as far as market testing goes. Do read that book if you haven't. I'd test the heck out of the market before putting in the money you're certainly going to have to put in, especially if you're talking a regular patent and funding your own manufacturing.
They recommended The One Minute Manager.
This book is a very good one on the subject : One Simple Idea
I recommend reading this book.The One Minute Manager;Kenneth H. Blanchard.
https://www.amazon.com/The-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0688014291/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1481414800&sr=8-2&keywords=one-minute+manager
There's 3 kinds of incomes: A, B, and C income:
C - A job, the worst way to make a living. Working for another man trading dollars for hours. Slogan: "I'll learn to love (tolerate) what I do and live with what it gives me, at least until I save up enough money to strike out on my own."
B - Contracting work, a business you work. Trading dollars for hours still, but you work for yourself and set your own price. Example, creating and selling products or providing a service. Slogan: "I get paid what I'm worth because I work hard, make my own hours and prices"
A - Passive income streams, AKA residual income, a business that runs itself. Acquire a system of assets. Assets vary greatly and are generally built over time. Examples: Owning a rental unit, owning rental boats, owning a storage facility, really anything you can rent out is an asset, owning an online business that generates enough money for you to pay a manager to run it for you, investments in an institution that pays off high-yields, a copyright that leads to royalty payments, Or setting something up so others can make money, and take a small percentage (Facebook & twitter). Slogan: "Key word: Ownership. I've worked hard, sacrificed for the future, and made tough decisions most people don't. So now I don't have to work for money anymore... my money works for me now!"
Some books on how to get to Level A: 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', 'The Richest Man in Babylon' Good luck out there :)
http://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/
Changed.
My.
Life.
If your teeth are bad and the enamel soft, it suggests that your diet was or is poor. Studies of remote indigenous people early last century showed that even though they'd never seen a toothbrush, decay was extremely rare and crowded teeth were unknown.
The dentist who conducted those studies, Dr Weston Price, concluded that vitamins A and D, as well as an unknown substance in butter (now identified as vitamin K2) were vital for the formation of bones and teeth, and successfully treated dental deterioration and decay with a healthy diet supplemented with cod-liver oil (contains vitamins A & D) and butter oil (contains vitamins A and K2). Check out Ramiel Nagel's book Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition or, if you can't spare funds for the book, he's got a series of 3 YouTube videos on the topic. He examines the work of Dr Price as well as two other dentists.
Another item to be aware of is the post-metabolisation acidity of foods. Too much acid-producing food in a meal causes your body to raid the bones and teeth for alkalising minerals to try and restore a more neutral pH that the body prefers. Check out The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide: A Quick Reference to Foods & Their Effect on pH Levels, or this brief online list. While we need essential nutrients from acidic foods like meat and mildly acidic ones like butter, it's best to ensure the alkaline-food portion of our diet is the bigger part.
Another item to address your enamel softness problem is to avoid fluoride as much as possible. Fluoride exchanges places with calcium quite readily, and is stripping away the very mineral your teeth need. Excessive exposure (dental/skeletal fluorosis) leads initially to white marks, then brown stains, and in extreme cases, pitting and visible structural deterioration. Fluoride-free toothpastes are available, many based on sodium bicarb/bicarbonate of soda. You can actually use bicarb on its own as a tooth-whitening agent. Before you go using abrasives or brushing extensively though, probably a good idea to boost teeth strength with a good diet for a while first. A variety of fresh produce with lots of leafy greens (chlorophyll contains magnesium, another alkalising mineral involved in bone/teeth formation), and be sure to take daily cod-liver oil and butter and/or cheese.
Remember, your teeth are a window to your bones.. they are like the tip of the iceberg that you can see. You can't put fillings in, or whiten your bones with dental cosmetics: proper nutrition is the easiest and most effective solution for bone health. Eliminating from your diet highly acidic foods such as white flour/bread, white rice, white sugar is an important first step, and has other benefits (like reducing diabetes & heart disease risk).
Regarding your old fillings, I'm afraid there's no easy advice if money is tight. On the financial advice front I can highly recommend George Clason's great little book The Richest Man in Babylon (PDF version here). If you currently drink sodas regularly, as so many people do, one idea to try is to carry an old fizzy drink bottle with you and fill it with water. On every occasion when you would have bought a sugary acidic fizzy drink, put those few coins aside, in a jar or box, forget about them, and drink the water instead. Check your hoard in six months and you might be surprised at its value. (If not sodas, look for other small savings you can make - and then be sure to save the money instead of "dipping into" it!) If you can save enough for the filling replacements, in the interest of your health, have any mercury-amalgam fillings removed very carefully, and replaced with non-amalgam fillings. You'll want to find a holistic dentist, who will remove the amalgam using a dental dam and a proper ventilation system to protect both you and him from the additional toxic mercury vapour that will be released (in addition to the normal continuous de-gassing) when your fillings are disturbed. The filling replacements might take time to save for, but as a first priority you net to stop the rot, and that comes from fixing your diet for the better. Convenience and fast foods have a cost that is far greater than indicated on the cheap price tag.
This is actually already on the minds of a lot of HR people at top companies. IMO, it is more about employee satisfaction at the company, with salary being part of the mix. Gallup did this huge survey using 12 questions to measure employee engagement. They said that if an employee answered with 5s on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being totally agree) to all of these questions, then that was one of the best indicators to company performance. Now, they're peddling this product to a lot of companies, and in my opinion (which counts for nothing), it works.
Read the book First, Break all the Rules, which is written by, surprise! The same guy who developed and is selling the survey.
right?
every day?
for doing good work?
you as a person?
job is important?
quality work?
about your progress?
I'm bored.
Have you checked out Stephen Key and his book One Simple Idea? I think that'd be a great place to start!
https://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159
I can recommend books.
Don't look at this as something mandated, look at it as an opportunity to learn. If the class you mentioned covers general leadership and management you should consider it, direct reports or not. If it's just how to file HR paperwork and stuff, ya don't bother.
Like a large minority here, I was a classic centre-right conservative while I muddled through high school. I didn't understand then, but I recognise now that the "right" part of me was the economic freedom part, and the "centre" of course was the social freedom. My view of the world was that socialism had failed, so I accepted and defended individual economic freedom. I knew governments were inefficient with my money, and wanted them to have little to do with me. Socially, I fiercely defended conservatism. I could see consequences that others seemed incapable of seeing. Marriage needed to be defended, because childeren were at stake. Drugs... I laughed uproariously every time someone weakly suggested decriminilization. Of course.. the only reason more deaths and accidental overdoses didn't happen were because selfless police were out on the streets at night stopping a horrible immoral and violent trade. At the same time I had nothing but contempt for "anti-capitalists". I opposed the wars fought by "our" enemies, but I supported all 21st century wars fought by America and my country. A strange blindness to hypocracy infected my life.
Through university I ignored the Socialist Alliance. That was the extent of my politics through those 4 years. I was way too busy learning facts and philosophies of my Bacheolor Degree.
In 2008, my second-last year of uni, I kept hearing the name Ron Paul. I saw him as some guy popular with liberal arts students, so I wasn't even interested enough to read more than his seven-letter name. However, at the same time, I started to see deep deep problems with conservatism. Firstly, in Australia conservative politicians are universally seen as economic masters, but even then I could see that eight years of Bush administration hadn't done wonders for the US economy. Meanwhile, I was growing up. I could see huge problems with the two wars our nations were fighting. Afgans and Iraqis had a completely different culture to ours. Where we applaud most compromises, Middle Eastern culture (not exclusively) sees it as a weakness. I knew that there was no real reason to fight in Iraq, and to me the Afgan campaign was the world's most expensive assassination attempt against one person (Osama bin Laden). To an economic conservative, that hurt my sensibilities.
My original fling with voluntaryism and individualism came via a book that was highly recommended to me. Called The Richest Man in Babylon, it is a book that explains how individuals produce wealth. I never knew this. For the first 20 years of my life I believed, as most statists believe, that society produces wealth, and the sneakiest people are the richest. This book showed me how my life came down to my own decisions, my own wisdom. In the first chapter, the main character (a master chariot builder) is told that he doesn't own all of his money, he only owns a portion of it. When all is said and done, he pays others to help him live. Only the portion that he keeps as savings is his own. That money can work for him.
It spoke to me of one thing above all else: In a free society, people have to help each other in order to survive. This was the pure capitalism I could intuitively see from a young age.
The first time I really found out about libertarianism was late last year. I was staying at a friend's house for holidays, and began reading a very balanced series of books by Richard J. Maybury. The first one was "The 1000 Year War", a tale of how foreign policy of myriad powers have brought us to a dangerous ground of tit-for-tat terrorism attacks and invasions. Mr Maybury didn't defend the US, and he didn't explain away terrorism as justified. It was a brand new idea for me. He seemed so intellecual, honest, and peaceable. This was what I wanted to be! I hated to feel self-righteous. I didn't care what my thoughts sounded like, so long as they were principled and worked better than the status-quo. I began to research further. Every night of research gave me hours of entertainment with very very smart tutors. There was Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, Learn Liberty, How the World Works Youtube channel, Mises, Thomas Sowell, Gary Johnson, Adam Kokesh, Ron and Rand Paul (I had finally discovered their platforms).
So now, after less than a year as a libertarian, I can see that I am still journeying. I know that Anarcho-Capitalism is the pure form of our principles, and I really want to reach there. I am a firm Minarchist-Libertarian who would like to one day join those ranks when I am firmly convinced. But we are all struggling in the same direction, and for that I am proud!
These are the books I've read recently and liked a lot:
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/10X-Rule-Difference-Between-Success/dp/0470627603
I think it all relates to one-another. You don't need schooling to be successful, but as a young adult, schooling is usually your primary responsibility. Your habits and intelligence begin very early on and I can almost think back to the things that influenced me to be the person I am now.
Just know that it's never too late to change your life. So, if now's not the time for you, then don't fret but maybe make some changes or read books from entrepreneurs. I've heard this book is good. I also like Mark Cuban's book.. I read a lot of informational blogs and articles online though. How people perceive you and respect is earned.
I think it's all important. At least for me, the busier I am with real responsibilities and goals, the better I do at all of them. So, doing well in school while creating something is probably the best recipe for success. On the other hand, student loan debt is a really bad trap most young adults fall into now.
In the end, if you're a hustler about the things you do, you'll find success. Entrepreneurship is more a mental stability game than anything else. I'm glad I had a decent job and consistent paycheck while I tried to do the entrepreneurship stuff. I wasn't a very good employee though.
EDIT: I think the most important thing is to also have "heros" or someone you really look up to. For me, that was my brother. He was naturally very intelligent, so even though I didn't keep up with him in school, I always had his influence for high accomplishments & goals.
Positive thinking. Yes, your worst case scenario may come true (someone yells at you, whatever), but a positive person would think, "wow, that person must have had a much terrible day than me."
Usually people ask me how I stay so calm during presentations. I say, "think about all the presentations you've seen in your life. Now think about how many of them were just straight up bad. Probably less than 1%, right? So based on that, you've got 99% chance of being good to fair, and only 1% chance of crashing and burning. The odds are in your favor!"
This also applies to you asking questions. How many times have people come to you asking a question? Isn't your first response usually, "okay, let me help you?" Most people are good and want to help you, so just trust that asking a question won't be met with scorn or intolerance.
Resume writing: The odds of you not getting the job are 100% if you don't send the resume in.
If you need more specific help with job hunting, I highly encourage you to read What Color is Your Parachute? It's a classic resource for job hunters for a reason: it works.
> If someone could build a prototype, find investors, and bring it to market then I'd be thrilled with 5%.
Well, that's actually within the range that people get paid for licensing their ideas to companies. They do all the work and take all the risk, and you receive a royalty. If you're interested in this, you should read One Simple Idea by Stephen Key. It's a great book that explains everything about the licensing process. I've met the author in person, and he's a fantastic guy. Very generous and truly loves helping people.
Read the book quitter by [Jon Acuff ](Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982986270/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ZNyIybFKGC5YP)
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
The picture linked in my view has the cover of his book.
Edit:https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
There are classes in hospitality and resort management. If your parents are serious they and/or you should be taking them. Community colleges and even four year colleges offer degrees in this sort of thing.
Campgrounds are a huge industry. There are professional organizations dedicated to it. Find out about them and join.
You MIGHT have luck contacting Stéphane Deschênes of Bare Oaks. He runs a first-class place.
Read this book. (And several of the others on that page.)
You are dipping your toe into a deep career field. Good luck.
Good for you bilbobillikins! A couple of books that helped me make the transition were - High Output Management and First, Break All the Rules. Apart from this there is a great series of podcasts where Mike and Mark talk about various challenges and have a great perspective on how to deal with typical situation that managers would face. You can find them at Manager Tools website.
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857
An anarchist physicist from UCI who was fired for writing an amazing book about the subservient role of the professional to oppressive hierarchies and institutions. Chomsky signed a letter with a bunch of other intellectuals supporting him. Howard Zinn said he's been "waiting a long time for someone to write this book" and Thomas Frank gave him a shout-out in his book Listen Liberal (also a good one http://listenliberal.com/).
This sounds like a good recipe to become the next Mark Cuban.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
Very interesting article. Whenever this topic comes up I think about a couple books. First, Break All The Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. These books outline what makes a manager great and how the greatest managers identify, motivate, and retain the most talented people in their organization. Interesting read.
TIL Employer-provided health benefits are a scam... lol.
>the stock market and retirement funds have lost a lot of value in the last 4 years. full stop.
And yet they're on pace to recover and more... Also why are you talking like a telegram?
>why you oppose this notion so strongly? are you richer than warren? do you think you will ever be?
No and No, but I like to respect what people earn, as opposed to thieving it via the government.
>i thought u were in high school or college because statements like 80% of people can save 10% of their income. are u fuckin insane?
No, not insane. It's the truth. It's the premise behind best-seller books such as this one and this one.
>most people just cant save a penny, actually they are crazy indebted, go google some graphic about debt.
All that is saying is that there's a lot of people out there with poor money management skills. That I do not deny. All I've said is that 80% of the people are capable of saving 10%. Whether they actually do it or not is another story.
>go on. keep defending the interests of the rich. are you one of them?
Once again, no. But you said you were, so why are you arguing against what's in your best interest?
wow thanks for the response! I've always liked books which helped to define strengths. I also find books that wrap thse ideas in a very creative and illustrative fashion better to retain. This reminds me of The Richest Man of Babylon.
Nevertheless thanks Wordslinger1919, I'll have to give your suggestion a good read =)
Read this book:
Read this book
It's awesome that you're networking, but are you using those contacts to get informational interviews? If not, read this book and get some advice for people already in the field. BTW, an informational interview is not the same as a job interview.
Volunteering is awesome; I hope you're volunteering in a hospital or something that is applicable to your field.
Two suggestions:
What Color is my Parachute by Richard Bolles
http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2011/dp/158008270X
The Whole Earth Catalog edition from the early 1980s (can be found in many public libraries)
The first book is about figuring out what sort of career you'd find most interesting and engaging. The second is a sampler of the best books on almost every subject under the sun, circa the early 1980s, and is sort of like the parachute book but for life itself.
I traditional basic read would be The Richest Man in Babylon.
It is a collection of parables that lay down the basic ground work for what to do. It is not earth-shattering but helps with the basics.
To clarify, he no longer works in Chicago, but he may be able to give you some tips on how to break into the industry there.
Definitely read up on Informational Interviewing. It'll help your job hunt tremendously. I highly recommend this book.
There's tons of great books and blogs on this topic. The most common phrasing of the ideas is Personal Finance.
This book and it's partner book "Smart Couples Finish Rich" helped me get started.
http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Millionaire-Powerful-One-Step-Finish/dp/0767923820/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
These books are more work related than philosophical, but it changed the way I looked at work and to a certain extent life in general. I think everyone could benefit from reading these.
These books won't teach you how to manipulate or con your way in life, but rather how by changing your own behaviour (in a positive way), you can change that of others (in a positive way).
Because of how you worded your title, take money and turn it into more money, I'll recommend The Richest Man in Babylon. Its about the philosophy of making money. It provides absolutely no concrete examples but it does give you certain philosophical rules that you can learn about that will help you deal with the actual financial world we live in. http://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367
"the richest man in babylon"
This helped me.
Then I read this as well.
I struggled personally with this question for about 5 years. I used to work for a huge tech company, with good pay and great benefits. Before getting the job there, I went to a college which had a partnership with this company. The company provided money to school, and school provided a steady supply of well trained workers. We had "ambassadors" come down from the company to sell us on how awesome it was to work there. My college friends and I looked at getting a job there as like winning the lottery ( we were from poor working class communities ). This was how life was supposed to work, go to college, get a good stable job at a big company with great benefits. Profit and happiness. This company prided itself on innovation and challenging the status quo which is exactly what I wanted.
After three months there, it became very apparent that this was not what it was all cracked up to be. I was overpaid and underutilized. I spent most of my time performing mundane tasks that require little or no thought, except for strict adherence to procedure. This shook my world view to the core. I had done what society said was the path to success, and was miserable. So I began researching and soul searching to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and how I wanted to live it. Time and time again I encountered advice that said follow your passion. It seemed to be everywhere I looked, and I'd like to share some of the major things that inspired me to do just that:
An interview with Demetri Martin: At around the 10 minute mark he talks about his choice to leave law school and become a comic. The big quote for me was, "Ok...when I wake up in the morning, what activities would I look forward to doing...what, physically, could I spend my time on, that I get excited about...[and] how can I get money for that." That seemed like a pretty good formula for happiness.
Several TED Talks:
Dan Pink on Motivation: This whole talk. I wanted to work for or build a company that accepts and utilizes this research.
Cameron Herold on Entrepreneurs: This whole talk, but one of the primary things for me is at the beginning where he talks about the bad idea of getting a tutor in French as a child, which he sucks still at, instead of getting a tutor in speaking, which he is great at. Basically, play to your strengths to get exponential returns on effort, instead of clawing to work on things you suck at to make minimal returns on effort.
Chip Conely: Measuring what matters.
Gary Vaynerchuck: Do what you love.
The book The Millionaire Mind: Main concept for me, follow your passion and the money will follow. The thought being, if you care about something, you will work harder at, producing a better quality product or service than something you only marginally care about.
And probably one of the biggest things was my grandfather. He has ran his own business for longer than I have been alive. He absolutely loves what he does and gets paid very well to do it. He is constantly winning awards for his work. If you ever brought up retirement to him, he'd respond by saying, "What else would I do with my time? I love my work, I'll never retire, I may slow down, but I'll never retire."
Currently my life is a personal experiment to test whether or not following your passions will pay off, and if it doesn't at least I know the following quote won't apply to me: "I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."
TL;DR: Follow your passion!
Richest Man in Babylon
The Road Less Traveled
Man's Search For Meaning
Things are already serious and getting more so but you don't know it. You're going to make decisions that are incompatible with who you wanted to be when you grow up without anyone saying a thing or you noticing. The foundation for being a good man is either solidified now or (as in my case) built amid the chaos of realizing I've drifted far from my self without knowing it in my forties.
All of these books are truly helpful but if you only have time for one make it the road less traveled. The first paragraph may change your life and stop you from being an entitled self-pittying child which, by and large, is how most of us enter our twenties and often thirties
Back when I was contemplating the idea of moving up (I'd rather drink bleach), I purchased this book that gives you a number of tips on how to professionally suck the excrement out of management's ass. Our entire western society is built on the hierarchical system where your self worth is commodified, meaning unless you know the rules of the game you're never going to climb the corporate ladder.
Hope this helps you get to where you want to go.
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-Promoted-Doesnt-Second/dp/160774600X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458908740&sr=8-1&keywords=who+gets+promoted+and+who+doesn%27t
Thank you for a great answer! :)
Your first and second suggestion remind me of a book i read many years ago called Positive Intelligence. In that book the author had identified 12 common mental saboteurs (that had more to do with attitudes than activities) that you were supposed to label as soon as you identified one of them. You were also supposed to do "PQ reps" that were more or less the same as checking in to your body. :)
I will start trying out all of your suggestions above as soon as I have the opportunity, probably at work on Monday morning. Thanks again! :)
[Raving Fans] (http://www.amazon.com/Raving-Fans-Revolutionary-Approach-Customer/dp/0688123163) by Ken Blanchard is pretty good. The One Minute Manager by the same author is also worth a read. Nothing groundbreaking, but interesting nonetheless.
One Minute Manager
Right there with you and have taken a step back to realize that an office environment is something I need right now. Perhaps also a co-founder when I decide to start investing 100% in my company again. A book has really helped me in the last few months and I cannot recommend it enough -- Positive Intelligence.
If you you're looking for help learning yourself, I'd recommend starting with the following books:
From there look for topics in the specific type of business you are looking to run or the type of markets you're interested in.
probably not exactly what you're looking for, but http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Mind-Thomas-Stanley/dp/0740718584
I recommend reading Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why. It has lots of insight into how companies work and anecdotes from people who have been successful in moving up the ladder. It also has some general misconceptions that people have.
You can find a summary presentation here.
Here is a random article I found about stock simulators.
How do you like to learn things? There are tons of books, podcasts and blogs about investing. Here are some popular ones or ones that I have read and used
Warren Buffett famously/supposedly read every book in the financial section at the library by age 12--I think the important thing to take from that is you are still young and have tons of free time and aside from starting to invest as soon as you can (you can usually start as soon as you have earned income) you should be investing in yourself...getting good grades, figuring out what you want to do after high school, trying out businesses, learning marketable skills (e.g., coding, good writing skills, good interpersonal skills, good organizational skills, etc).
Good Luck!
Try this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company-Know/dp/0312337361/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498958708&sr=8-1&keywords=corporate+secrets
FYI, going to reddit for advice is the worst idea ever.
Read and listen to Dave Ramsey if you want to be "good" with personal finance.
If you want to "optimize" finance, then come hang out with us in r/financialindependence
Podcasts: ChooseFI, Afford Anything
Blogs: Mr. Money Mustache
Books: Simple Path to Wealth, Your Money or Your Life, Millionaire Next Door, The Richest Man in Babylon
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Some pointers:
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You may be interested in The Education of Millionaires.
https://www.amazon.com/Education-Millionaires-Everything-College-Successful/dp/1591845610
It’s about a bunch of people from humble beginnings that persisted,scraped and fought until they became successful. I thought it was very inspiring.
There is a book on the topic that I am currently reading myself: One Simple Idea
I had the same issue for a long time
I suggest reading "The Richest Man in Babylon" - It's changed my perspective on savings, and wealth in general. you can find it here; (https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496006456&sr=8-1&keywords=richest+man+in+babylon)
Before you can truly save money you have to be in the right mindset, this'll help with that.
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857
If you want to answer this one seriously, this book has several exercises for finding your purpose in life, which may just work out for you. At $11, I think it's worth the risk.
read the book "the education of millionares" i think it would help you.
10x Rule 10x
The E-Myth Revisited E myth
48 Laws Of Power 48 Laws Of Power
As far as other sub-reddits, there isn't really a good one dedicated to management. I'm subbed to r/business, r/consulting, r/management, and r/smallbusiness (this one might be the best for you because there are a lot of posts asking how to deal with small teams and difficult employees).
Really basic: One Minute Manager https://www.amazon.com/New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0062367544/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506001797&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=one+minut+emanager
Story Factor: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Factor-2nd-Revised/dp/0465078079/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506001667&sr=8-1&keywords=story+factor
Honestly, there's nothing better than on-the-job experience when it comes to management. You might want to follow up with your boss and ask the same pointed question, "my team seems to be growing, do you have any recommendations of books that could help me become a better manager?"
I am currently reading the book, "One Simple Idea", and it has sections on how to generate ideas. I highly recommend it.
>I really don't buy that one's wealth can indicate so much about an individual's character.
It very well may be that it's not necessarily "wealth" that indicates these tendencies, but rather these tendencies seem to correlate with a higher likelihood of attaining that higher level of wealth at some point. From the research that I've seen, these tendencies are present in the majority of the test sample.
>I have a feeling that socioeconomic status of your family is much more important than whether or not they are 'excessively educated".
It could. I think the level of education point was meant to demonstrate either:
It's not really clear, unfortunately. The research on this topic is not particularly deep or ubiquitous, and is primarily reliant on what's effectively a census -- it's not as a result of controlled experiments or peer-reviewed psychology materials. It's demographics, polling, and interviews, which can establish trends and correlations but not the full explanation of the "why" behind it.
Additionally, these tendencies are simple majority percentages, and while some show very clear trends (hours worked, age, level of education, starting economic class, etc) in the form of very high percentages, others are in the 55-60% range, which is not always indicative of a trend and could be in the margin of error for any conclusions that might be drawn.
>Have a source for all those stats?
There's a few. To be fair most of this is recalling my notes from a freelance article I did 6-7 years ago on the traits of millionaires. I used these two books and an aggregate of data I found on Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and a few others. As I stated earlier in my post, the data and the methods behind it appear to be sound, but they don't provide the amount of depth that I'd prefer.
>The rate of millionaires who are 3 generations of less removed from an immigrant has no bearing on how likely everyone else is to become one, unless you are assuming there is a fixed amount of millionaires in the U.S. or those are two separate statistics.
I may have misrepresented that one, or at least worded it poorly. The research showed that people whose grandparents or parents were immigrants to US achieved millionaire status at a higher rate than those who came from families that have been present in the US for longer than 3 generations.
Overall, even if the research isn't perfect, it still seems to clearly demonstrate to me that the incentives behind work are far more complex than what OP posited.
The One Minute Manager
I cannot stress enough the importance of this book. You can finish it in half a day, I've read it multiple times. Such a simple and effective way of managing any team.
Yes, study your ass off on management. If you can get out to a bookstore this weekend, go pick up either the Successful Manager's Handbook or The One-Minute Manager so you can study up on management techniques and be able to give some specifics to questions.
These might be available as e-books; I didn't check.
I suggest you give this a read
Every paycheck, I have my account automatically put 10% away into my savings acct that's in it's own separate account so it's a little more difficult to get to. That shit starts adding up really quick, and I highly recommend it. It's amazing how easily you can live off 90% of every paycheck.
I learn it from "The Richest man in Babylon" which I also highly recommend :-)
The One Minute Manager
Not sure what angle on leadership you’re looking for, but The One-Minute Manager is short enough that even if that doesn’t suit you, you haven’t wasted much time on it. It’s a perennial favorite in the “business leadership” category.
You can buy his ebook which is just an aggregation of his blog posts. Super cheap but fun read:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
Welcome. One more - wish I'd found this as early as you're asking, but I think this book is foundational in personal finance: The Richest Man in Babylon
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0451205367/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T6BW800K95JP290PTWQE
Someone messaged me about this, so I thought I'd share the answer here. They asked about how to become a better writer and a few tips:
Hey there,
Sure thing! There's definitely a lot of stuff out there. The best way to hone your craft:
Some other great resources are:
Niche down hard, as well. The more niche your writing, the more you're likely to be paid. That said, there are certain niches - mainly SaaS, online marketing, eCommerce, and online business - that tend to pay better than others. Sports, for example, is incredibly difficult to write about since most writers write for free.
Once you've figured out a niche, start going after high-end blogs in that niche to get guest posts. Once people start seeing your name on high quality work on high authority blogs, they'll start to come to you rather than you needing to look for work.
Which leads to my last point - always give it your best. Don't skimp on writing, even if you're not being paid. Something I lived by is The 10X Rule: Give 10 times the value of what you're being paid. Eventually, that will come back to you exponentially.
Hope this helps!! :) I may actually work on creating a course to put a few really serious people through. If you're interested, let me know - I'm not going to bother with it unless I see an interest.
Feel free to ask me any other questions!
I can relate to this a lot, I love philosophy and I jump around different clicks all the time.
To keep it short I went on a goal setting course set up by my employer and so many things popped up that made me realise I don't achieve anything because I don't set out to achieve anything.
If you have a sat nav that couldn't tell you where you are and you didn't know where you want to go it may have all the maps in the world but its useless.
Take half an hour out and actually write down where you are now and where you want to be and what's you need to do to get there.
Start 2016 off with a goal a month and stick to it, the only person stopping you achieving it is yourself!
Edit: Actually, heres a simple book to read, its only 52 pages and can be read in a day, it should help you kick start your planning! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/142212312X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=142212312X&linkCode=as2&tag=finafreebefof-21
Before making any crazy decisions I would suggest reading "Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job" by Jonathan Acuff. It's not a bad read and excellent advise.
Here's the amazon link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982986270
Anyone wondering about wealth:
Read The Millionaire Mind
Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Read The Millionaire Next Door
These books highlight the differences in how people talk to their children about wealth.
Buy a copy of The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clayson. It's $4 in paperback (used) or Kindle versions.
http://amzn.com/0451205367
It's short, it's easy to read, and it contains all the basics of personal finance that you need to know. Even if you only take the first chapter to heart, you'll be doing better than most of your peers.
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I'm also living in SAT, just turned 28, and a making about that after taxes, but I'm socking $1500 away a month for a down payment on a house (Dec 2016), and then I'll sock the same away for a loaded Tesla Model 3 (Oct 2019), and then again for a set of solar panels for the house (Jun 2021). And maybe after that I'll get a motorcycle.
Along the way, I will probably find a girl, date, get married, maybe even have a kid (it is about 5 years in my whole plan...), but the point is I've got a plan, I've got goals, I have a purpose for the money I'm earning.
Again, this is also assuming I will never get a raise, and I haven't added in the money I'm investing for retirement, that's just the fun stuff. So, have no fear, you can live below your income, and it will pay off.
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Along with the books already mentioned, I would highly recommend Jon Acuff's books. I've read:
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Both were very encouraging and helped me think about the work that I do do in a different light. He has a new one, called Do Over [amzn] which sounds like it might be right up your alley as well.
You may also look into Dave Ramsey's materials. A lot of people have heard of his Financial Peace University, but he has a follow-up course called The Legacy Journey, which deals with the things you're looking toward, having security and freedom in retirement (whenever that might come) and leaving a legacy for your children.
note: No affiliate links were used in the making of this post. ;-)
This book lends some insight into how to go about doing it: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344806368&sr=8-1&keywords=one+simple+idea
I'm sure it'd be interesting to be involved in a project like this. I'm not sure I'm the man for the job, but I definitely am interested in the final product if someone did manage to put something like this together.
If you get rich off it, just circle back around for me if you would... it'd be appreciated, lol.