You should be coaching people smarter, wealthier and more successful than yourself.
This is why.
This is how.
Here’s how to reach out to a successful stranger.
Here’s how to sign high-level executives as clients.
And here’s a reading list to understand the mindset and the flaws of smart, wealthy, successful people:
- The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes – and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
- Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
- Willpower Doesn’t Work by Benjamin Hardy
What book would you add to this list?
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