Skip the Line

The entrepreneur angel investor and bestselling author of Choose Yourself busts the 10000-hour rule of achieving mastery offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional—no matter their age or managerial level—to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills they need to succeed and achieve their dreams.. We live in a hierarchical world where experience has traditionally been the key to promotion. But that period is over! Straight clear-cut career trajectories no longer exist. Industries disappear job descriptions change and people’s interests and passions evolve. The key to riding this wave entrepreneur James Altucher advises is to constantly be curious about what’s next to be comfortable with uncertainty so you can keep navigating the rough waters ahead and most important to pursue the things that interest you.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.