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James Altucher ‘s universal advice to anyone is to choose yourself , but to do that, you first have to stop choosing others and letting them choose you.

That, naturally, includes saying no. A lot. Steve Jobs was pretty good at it . The thing is, most of us are pretty bad at it. I’ve said yes to so many things I knew the moment I heard the question, that the real answer was no, that I’ve lost count.

It’s something all of us need to get better at, which makes this book probably one of the most important ones we’ll ever come across.

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