The Lemonade Life
How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
The secret to an extraordinary life starts with five simple changes that anyone can make.
In this groundbreaking book, Zack Friedman starts with a fundamental question: What drives success? It's not only hard work, talent, and skill. The most successful people have one thing in common,?the power to flip five internal "switches." We all have these five switches, and when activated, they are the secret to fuel success, create happiness, and conquer anything.
The Lemonade Life is filled with inspirational and practical advice that will teach you:
Why you should write yourself a $10 million checkWhy your career depends on the Greek alphabetWhy you need?ikigai?in your lifeHow Judge Judy can help you have better work meetingsHow these twenty questions will change your life
Learn from the entrepreneur who failed 5,126 times before becoming a billionaire, the fourteenth-century German monk who helped reinvent Domino's Pizza, the technology visionary who asked himself the same question every morning, the country music icon who bought more than one hundred million books, and the ice cream truck driver who made $110,237 in less than one hour.
With powerful stories and actionable lessons, this book will profoundly change the way you live, lead, and work. Your path to greatness starts with a simple choice. Everyday, you're choosing to live one of two lives: the Lemon Life or the Lemonade Life. Which life will you lead?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Forbes columnist and former hedge fund investor Friedman argues for leading a life with purpose and possibility in this upbeat debut self-improvement guide. "Lemonade Lifers," as he terms them, succeed because they have mastered five key "switches": perspective, risk, independence, self-awareness, and motion. Friedman walks readers through an array of tips, behaviors, and self-assessment questions to flip these switches in their own lives. Along the way, he cherry-picks anecdotes from a who's who of business luminaries, including Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton, and Harland "Colonel" Sanders. While suggestions like "commit acts of kindness" and "embrace failure" aren't new, Friedman enlivens well-worn self-help concepts by applying metaphors from the finance world. Less successful is the book's staunch optimism, which at times highlights a lack of nuance in Friedman's arguments. For example, statements such as "few things in life have strict prerequisites... you don't have to go to business school to become a CEO," while factually correct, ignore the outsize impact such an opportunity or the lack thereof can have on a career. Similarly, the idea that "right now... almost everyone has a shot to fulfill their destiny" might ring hollow to those facing systemic obstacles to success. Nevertheless, for readers willing to follow him and do the work, Friedman provides a wealth of actionable advice.
Customer Reviews
Don’t bother.
At first it seemed not a bad read, but then it just became the same old story with much the same ideas and theories with different catch phrases as every other self help book. The only one it will help is the authors bank balance.