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The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong with Eric Barker

The Science of Success

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The 10,000 Foot Overview Is a Great Approach to Cracking That Walnut

I think that's a great approach and I love the structure of the book which is as you said to kind of take all these maxims that we hear and people kind of casually toss out. It was really interesting for me because you know in some, I mean maybe in a prior era these things were more true but now life is so complicatedWe have so many options, so many possibilities that you know it's hard to believe that one pithy sentence like nice guys finish last is really going to sum up. You know there's definitely some insight in a lot of these but I wanted to really look at what the experts and the academics had to say.

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