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Entertaining

Revisado: 12-31-24

I enjoyed this book and found it highly entertaining and funny. It was an interesting look into Wallstreet culture.

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Great book, Consider not buying the audible one.

Revisado: 12-23-18

I love this book. The author is clearly good at presentation so his performance in narration is great. The problem is that parts are hard to conceptualize and there are chapters I need to re-visit. For this reason I will probably get a physical copy to make my life easier.

This has been a bit paradigm shifting for me especially the author's view on relationships. I'm trying out the 'E3D' method and I will probably keep it.

I will probably revisit once a year but I will need a hard copy. I had the same issue with David Allen's Getting Things Done. I learn a lot from audible books but some I feel are better in physical form.

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Lifechanging

Revisado: 08-16-18

I read and listen to a lot of books. This was paradigm shifting and life changing. I still don't know if I really have a high IQ but after listening to this book where I identified with the author throughout, I got tested at a website the author recommended. I don't know how accurate the website is but mine was up there.

With this new paradigm I have saved myself a considerable amount of time. I no longer feel obligated to fit in and do things that groups are doing. I was always a contrarian but I used to do things to try and fit in and now I do less of them. I now end conversations when I realize the other person is not grasping conceptually what I am telling them and that they are not going to grasp it.

The author is condescending and cynical and I love every minute of it. If you are afraid you will hate it like the other reviewers I would listen to the sample as I think that is a good representation of the tone of the whole book. I find the same type of tone in Nassim Taleb's writing although I will grant that Taleb's writing is more sophisticated and cognitive.

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Didn't mind the performance

Revisado: 02-02-18

A nice short listen about how Professor Peterson became famous. I didn't mind the narrator.

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Found this Highly Informative

Revisado: 01-25-18

I bought this book after seeing Scott Adams in an interview. Before I started listening I saw some reviews and had buyer's remorse. Then I listened and I had the opposite of that (buyer's remorselessness?).

I do think the audio would be better if not narrated by Scott Adams, although there wasn't a whole lot I disagreed with and some of the points were probably controversial, so maybe that's the author's hypnotist training.

I didn't read his blog so I can't complain that he has successfully compiled his blog posts into an easy to follow along book. I don't mind.

I disagree with quite a lot of the critiques of this book. Some of the reviews are vitriolic and the reviewer complains of not liking another one of Scott Adam's books. Usually when I stumble across an author I despise, I tend to only read or listen to only one of their books, but that's me.

All in all, this helped dispel the myth that I still had in the back of my mind that most of the population were rational, logical humans. I kind of knew they weren't but this book has helped me internalize it better and I am now intending to further look into methods of persuasion.

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Worked for me so far

Revisado: 01-25-18

This book helped me realize some internal dishonesty I had within myself due to nicotine intake. I was a regular vapor user and had my last cartridge at the end of this book a week ago.

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My Favorite Modern Fiction Book

Revisado: 05-01-17

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's pace was perfect and I was on the edge of my seat. It is well narrated. It is rare that I listen to a book in such a short time.

The libertarian commentary might be off putting for some but I enjoyed it and at times it was implemented in a comical way.

I don't recall learning so much from a fictional book before. I learned some things about anatomy, speculation, mining companies, and found myself googling concepts I was unfamiliar with. It is the first time I encountered the term "Gamma Male".

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Well worth the Audio version

Revisado: 08-18-15

Would you listen to Follow That Car! again? Why?

Yes. I really enjoyed the things the author learned from his passengers and find real practical value in those things.

What does Jimmy Failla bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

This audio book has actors, sound effects, music, and felt to be of high production value. I don't know if someone is hard up for an actual "Audio-book" but if your hoping for something that sounds like the author or reader reading to you the whole time, I would pass on it.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The advice from the old man that worked at carnivals will stick with me forever.

Any additional comments?

I listened to this in between rides while driving my cab. Very enjoyable and funny.

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Very Enjoyable

Revisado: 04-19-13

If you could sum up Risky Is the New Safe in three words, what would they be?

Creative, Inspiring, Informing

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I read Randy Gage's book "Why you're Sick, Dumb, and Broke" and my life has never been quite the same. I was very happy to see this book available on Audible.Randy Gage uses the outline of a Rock Opera in keeping with the concept of a changing world where disruptive technology will alter the way we do things. I was concerned with this book being a re-hash of things I had heard from him elsewhere and this was not the case at all.It's not the longest book to spend your audible credits on, however, I appreciate that the content has substance. Sometimes authors want to pump out more fluff to make a book bigger/longer but that's not what happened here .He doesn't stick to the text and expands on it throughout. I thought it worked very well. He speaks in a conversational tone that I also enjoyed.Mr. Gage seems to see the world differently and is a creative and critical thinker. I hope it's contagious.

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