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How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive! Kindle Edition

by James Altucher (Author)

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Building from the core you can create the luck you need, the health you want, and find the wealth, success, and happiness you seek. This book describes the techniques I've used throughout my life to get the luck I needed to get through both the hard times and the great times.

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File Size: 297 KB
Print Length: 167 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1461120705
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publication Date: May 20, 2011
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B0051XX724
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127 of 138 people found the following review helpful

Repetitive and rambling

By Rainy Day Reader on May 23, 2011

Format: Paperback

According to the intro, "How to be the Luckiest Person Alive" is supposed to "unleash the core that will drive you from desire to ambition to meaning." Readers can be forgiven if they are still a confused. This book isn't The Secret and it's not going to help you figure out what your life means. It also won't talk about luck.

So what does the book actually cover? A lot. An awful lot. Everything from whether to buy a house, what to do when you're suddenly wealthy, why to avoid college, and how to fire employees. It's nominally about some very high-level generalities about running startup businesses.

The biggest problem is that everything is in lists. Long lists. Long lists with little supporting detail or emphasis. Any real points quickly get lost as he races from one bullet to the next, with no hint which is essential, which is a joke and which is just filler. In one classic chapter, he rattles off over 80 "rules" for a business. Some some like crucial, vital pieces of information like "get a customer" and "be profitable". These rules sound like they can make or break a business and should always be followed. Other rules sound like handy tips, like "have killer parties" and "at Christmas, donate money to every customer's favorite charity." By the time you've droned through ten pages, everything blurs and the really key ideas (whichever they were) are lost. And since it is just a long list of rules, most readers will forget them before the chapter is done.

After he goes through several anecdotes including an uncomfortable chapter when he seems fixated on how much sex and drugs he did in college, the useful content more or less fizzes out. There's no real conclusion and nothing to wrap it up.Read more ›

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67 of 73 people found the following review helpful

As an Altucher fan, I am very disappointed

By JO on May 31, 2011

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I am a regular reader of James Altucher's blog, and immediately purchased this book when I learned of it. I was excited to read this, but am very disappointed. The book is basically a copy and paste rehash of his blog posts. On his blog, he admits that it took him three weeks to put this book together. It shows. The book is full of misspellings and typos. One of the chapters invites readers to leave a comment in the comment section - obviously something that should have been edited out when pasting from his blog.

I really wanted to like this book, however it is so sloppy that it is almost unreadable.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

This Book Eats Your Time Worse Than All Those Blogs & FaceBook

By Tim Atkinson on June 2, 2011

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This book falls into the Janis Joplin category "It's so good don't ever start." It's really hard not to read another chapter. I found myself reading instead of working. I am buying more copies for my entrepreneur buddies.

Altucher has screwed up more deals, passed up more opportunities, and utterly thrown away more money than anybody I know. He tells you exactly how he did it. As he points out, you learn most from your mistakes, and he's learned a lot.

I've read the other reviews. They all are truthful. Your expectations will become your reality.

So just buy the book, OK? Your Margarita last night cost more. But this is funny and lasts longer.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Chance favors a prepared mind - reloaded ;-)

By Sasha on September 3, 2011

Format: Paperback

After I received a copy of the e-book version of this book for free, Mr. Althucher asked if I would post a comment at Amazon.com once I had a chance to read it. I have answered affirmatively, so what follows is a general impression on the book format and a summary of my findings regarding the contents of the book.

Although the book reads fast, it is not an easy read. There's a wealth of information and a great variety of topics; and the book is structured to read more as a collection of separate blog entries with certain repetitions (for which we are warned at the beginning of the book). All of the above makes it difficult to absorb everything at once, so re-reading is required, and the cost of this was 1 star on the rating scale.

In my view, the Daily Practice recommendations are what the book is all about. A smart play with words aside, Mr. Althucher shows us not how to be the luckiest person alive, instead he teaches us how to be physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually FIT so that we will be able to recognize/create, as well as act on/follow through opportunities for bettering our lives. I put some of the recommendations to action (the physical and mental ones) and was ashamed to realize that first; I couldn't even do 5 push-ups and second; that after relying on a calculator for my daily tasks for so long, my mental "muscle" "objected" when I tried to add two numbers in my head. Not good...

The rest of the advise given in this book (on education, writing, housing, stocks, entrepreneurship, health, negotiating, customer service, etc.) is brutally honest (I laughed a lot about the "functional idiot" comment) and very much real life. On the surface this may cause the reader to form an opinion that Mr.Read more ›

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

The voice of the Facebook generation

By lostlover on February 9, 2012

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I have to say I was at first immediately offended by James. He seemed to be espousing a philosophy of "wealth is the measure of success". But the more I read, I realized he was preaching something altogether different. He is talking about putting yourself in a position where you can be a content creator. Where you can join in with the brave new media world that is developing before our eyes. You have to work to read this book. His stream of consciousness writing style does not flow. Its gritty. But worth it. His descriptions of his own failures are probably the most endearing thing about his writing. I think that is were he bares himself the most. I highly recommend this book.

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Daily practice

Great advice on how to get and stay lucky. Daily practice to ensure and reinforce. Can be an on going workbook. Deserves rereading and sharing.

Published 1 month ago by Glenn

Who does'nt need a bit of luck.

An inspiring book. I really admire James' can do never lie down and die attitude. I think we could all do with a bit of luck. Start now and buy his book.

Published 1 month ago by J.P. Henry

Awesome reading

I wish I had read this book 10 years ago, incredibly insightful real life experiences packed with wisdom, logic and humor. One to be picked up and read again and again. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Grant Tate

One Star

Seems to be a rehash of stuff already out there.

Published 6 months ago by 9Jessie

Four Stars

Cool

Published 7 months ago by Stefan

Excellent Book

Altucher writes common sense truths that will help you succeed. Spot on. One of the most under rated authors of our time.

Published 13 months ago by D. Moore

Everything

Everything James writes is great, and this is no exception. He just doesn't think like everyone else.

Read it, learn it, live it.

Published 16 months ago by steve m

Okay

Unusual writing style -- and that's fine. But you could remove the first 90 percent of the book and get the same message. The final message IS very good stuff.

Published 18 months ago by Donald L. Schenck

BIG waste of Money

Started studying this book, but got so bored, I could not stay awake to read one more word. I think I either lost it or threw it away. Didn't think anyone else would want it..

Published 20 months ago by Janice K. Terrell

Not a worthwhile read.

I tried to read this but it was an inane drivel of repetition.

There's a lot of lists of what to do every day. Read more

Published 20 months ago by T. Allison

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