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Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In <em>Barking Up the Wrong Tree</em>, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:<br /><br /><br />• Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength <br />• Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers<br /><br />• Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution<br />• The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going<br />• How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man<br /><br />By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what