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Get the Summary of James Altucher's Skip the Line in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Skip the Line, he reveals how he went from struggling and depressed to making his personal, financial, and creative dreams come true, despite—and perhaps due to—his many failures along the way. Altucher combines his personal story with concrete—and unorthodox—insights that work. But Skip the Line isn’t about hacks and shortcuts—it’s about transforming the way you think, work, and live, letting your interests guide your learning, time, and resources. It’s about allowing yourself to do what comes naturally; the more you do what you love, the better you do it. While showing you how to approach change and crisis, Altucher gives you tools to help easily execute ideas, become an expert negotiator, attract the attention of those around you, scale promising ideas, and improve leadership—all of which will catapult you higher than you ever thought possible and at a speed that everyone will tell you is impossible.
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Contents
Insights from Chapter 1
Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 5
Insights from Chapter 6
Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 10
Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 12
Insights from Chapter 13
Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 15
Insights from Chapter 16
Insights from Chapter 17
Insights from Chapter 18
Insights from Chapter 19
Insights from Chapter 20
Insights from Chapter 21
Insights from Chapter 22
Insights from Chapter 23
Insights from Chapter 24
Insights from Chapter 25
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
When the entire world shut down, everything turned upside down. Society had to reinvent itself, and individuals needed to learn how to deal with massive amounts of uncertainty. Life wasn’t meant for us to live by someone else’s playbook.
#2
Humans have a fear of uncertainty built into our genes. The strands of DNA that survived in us, that evolved in us, express that stark naked fear of uncertainty.
#3
Our brains are wired to want to belong and be accepted. When things seem to be falling apart, the only thing that can save us is being in the tribe, and the only way to be in the tribe is to feel safe and secure there.
#4
You can’t just step into a new tribe and become the alpha. However, there are methods for skipping the line, for achieving what you need to achieve using the techniques that I’ve had to go through again and again.
Insights from Chapter 2
#1
The author lost everything, and began feeling anxious about his future. He took long walks every day, and started thinking about writing a book. Within two years, he had started a hedge fund with millions invested, written a book, and been featured in the Financial Times.
#2
There's no such thing as a straight line
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