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- Did you know that waiting for an institution to 'choose' you is the most dangerous risk you can take in the modern economy?
- What if you could build a recession-proof life by mastering four specific daily practices that transform your physical and mental well-being?
- What's the secret to reclaiming your personal power and finding success when the traditional rules of the workforce no longer apply?
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Key Takeaways from Choose Yourself
- Learn how to avoid being commoditized by technology by taking the artist-entrepreneur path and proactively creating your own success.
- Discover how to overcome the rejection pill that forces you to seek approval, allowing you to build a life based on what you genuinely love.
- Master the daily practice of balancing your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health to maintain optimal well-being and creativity.
- Find out how to navigate overwhelming moments of despair by shifting to abundance thinking, volunteering, and taking small steps forward.
- Understand why obsessing over a grand life purpose can actually cripple your progress, and learn to simply embrace and act in the present moment.
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Choose Yourself
The End of the American Dream
Corporate jobs are increasingly outsourced, automated, or temporary
The era of waiting for gatekeepers to promote you is over
Chasing money for consumerism only leads to unhappiness
The Choose Yourself Era
Take complete control of your own success and dreams
Use the internet to bypass traditional industry gatekeepers
Overcome the fear of rejection that makes you wait for permission
Provide services directly and cut out the corporate middleman
The Daily Practice (Four Bodies)
Physical Body
Mental Body
Emotional Body
Spiritual Body
Habits and Mindset
Internal Routines
Rethinking Purpose
Business and Financial Success
Value Creation
The Power of Honesty
Self-Empowerment
Believe in yourself as the ultimate foundation for success
Repeat a daily mantra of loving yourself to build confidence
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 10
According to the text, what was the fundamental flaw of the 'American Dream' era for individuals seeking success?
Choose Yourself — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: The American Dream of a stable middle-class job and “keeping up with the Joneses” is over.
Chapter 3: We now live in a “choose yourself” era, where you must take control of your own life.
Chapter 4: Our fear of rejection keeps us constantly waiting for someone else to determine our fate.
Chapter 5: To choose yourself, you must care for both your physical and mental “bodies.”
Chapter 6: A strong basis for choosing yourself depends on nurturing healthy spiritual and emotional “bodies.”
Chapter 7: Create daily routines that strengthen your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual “bodies.”
Chapter 8: The stressful hunt for a “life purpose” is futile and can even drive us toward pseudocide.
Chapter 9: Choosing yourself means removing the middleman so you keep the real value of your sales.
Chapter 10: In the “choose yourself” era, genuine success is only possible if you’re honest.
Choose Yourself Summary & Overview
Author James Altucher explains that after the 2008 global economic crisis, you can’t wait to be chosen; you have to Choose Yourself. This means you have to take full responsibility for your own success and happiness by reclaiming control of your aspirations and dreams. To do this, the book gives you both tools and effective practices to stay physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy.
Who Should Listen to Choose Yourself?
- Anyone who wants to learn how to become rich in today’s economy
- Anyone who wants better understand the state of the economy since 2008
- Anyone interested in entrepreneurship
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