101 Survival Secrets: How to Make $1,000,000, Lose 100 Pounds, and Just Plain Live Happily [Paperback]

Rich Hatch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2000

America's newest millionaire shares his secrets and advice.

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Short and snappy...His message to readers is that you can be a winner too. -- Nashville Tennessean

From the Back Cover

"My name is Rich Hatch. You might think you know me, and you probably bought this book based on having watched me win CBS's summer blockbuster show, Survivor. If you're anything like me, you're probable thinking you've got a pretty good idea of who I am and what types of things I'm likely to say in a book I'd write based on how I played that game, and how I achieved my success. But what you couldn't get from that show is who I am in my everyday life, what I think, and what I believe about how people interact with one another." "I'm not going to tell you that I have all the answers. But I do have a philosophy. And it works. It has worked for me and it can work for you. I hope that the survival secrets that follow help push each and every one of you farther than you ever thought you'd go; and I hope that in doing so you will get closer to achieving the happiness that you deserve." - Richard Hatch. Rich's Rules for A Better Life: (1) Quit your pathetic job. (2) If you don't love yourself, change until you do. (3) Worry is a wasted emotion. (4) Happiness is success. Success is happiness. (5) If it really is your "only" vice, get rid of it. (6) Stop pretending to be so damned polite. In fact, just stop pretending. (7) For me, being fat sucked. (8) You aren't doing anything you don't want to be doing. (9) Diplomas and degrees won't make you a better person. (10) Find friends who challenge you. And when they stop challenging you, find new friends. (6 X 9, 128 pages, b&w photos)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585742082
• ISBN-13: 978-1585742080
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,374,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sorry Richard, May 25, 2003

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MichaelH (East Coast US) - See all my reviews

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Despite its 120-plus pages, this book takes about 15 minutes to read. While it offers a handful of ideas worth considering, it isn't worth the cover price. If Richard Hatch were not the winner of the first Survivor, this work would have been published on a personal Web site somewhere and that would be all. If you want it, buy it used.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars self promoting, July 21, 2001

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This review is from: 101 Survival Secrets: How to Make $1,000,000, Lose 100 Pounds, and Just Plain Live Happily (Paperback)

While some may find the ideas in this book fresh or helpful, I found the book to be full of self promotion. It's title should be changed to "Me, ME & Me." Don't waste your money.

25 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rich Hatches a Plot?, December 20, 2000

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M. Myers "mmyers" (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This book appears to be step one in Rich's plan to become a millionaire twice over. Don't fall for it; this book is a real waste of money.

Some of the 101 "secrets" are good to know, if you don't know them already, such as getting an accountant to help you with your taxes. But many of them are contradictory - for example, Hatch can't seem to decide whether or not we should care what other people think. And some of them are simply not true for most people. Hatch's failure to take any good from his years of university training, for instance, is a poor argument against formal education.

Likewise, Hatch's recollections of his experiences on Survivor are only modestly interesting ("modest" not being a word used much in connection with Hatch) and not candid at all. They certainly lack detail: this is not a "tell-all" book. His observations are mostly self-aggrandizing and reveal none of the self-examination that he seems to recommend to his readers. Worse, Hatch's observations about life both on and off the island often don't ring true. It is difficult to believe, for instance, that Hatch really knows even one very unhappy person who has a wall somewhere that is filled with university diplomas. And it is even harder to believe Hatch's claim that public response to him since the show aired has been overwhelmingly positive.

Maybe the book's greatest virtue is that it revals a good deal of Hatch's personality quickly. Also, it is extremely short. Overall, this is a disappointingly empty, vapid work.