The entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author of Choose Yourself busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professionalno matter their age or managerial levelto 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 peoples interests and passions evolve. The key to riding this wave, entrepreneur James Altucher advises, is to constantly be curious about whats 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, despiteand perhaps due tohis many failures along the way. Altucher combines his personal story with concreteand unorthodoxinsights that work. But Skip the Line isnt about hacks and shortcutsits about transforming the way you think, work, and live, letting your interests guide your learning, time, and resources. Its 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 leadershipall of which will catapult you higher than you ever thought possible and at a speed that everyone will tell you is impossible.
