Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators and Mavericks Do to Win at Life. Dave Asprey

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      First published in the US by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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      © Dave Asprey 2018

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      Source ISBN: 9780008318635

      Ebook Edition © December 2018 ISBN: 9780008318642

      Version 2018-12-12

DEDICATION

       To Bill Harris, one of the most charitable and game-changing brain hackers I’vebeen honored to call a friend, who passed away during the writing of this book.

       CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

PART I: SMARTER

1 FOCUSING ON YOUR WEAKNESSES MAKES YOU WEAKER

2 GET INTO THE HABIT OF GETTING SMARTER

3 GET OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE IT

       4 DISRUPT FEAR

       5 EVEN BATMAN HAS A BAT CAVE

       PART II: FASTER

       6 SEX IS AN ALTERED STATE

       7 FIND YOUR NIGHTTIME SPIRIT ANIMAL

       8 THROW A ROCK AT THE RABBIT, DON’T CHASE IT

       9 YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN

       10 THE FUTURE OF HACKING YOURSELF IS NOW

       PART III: HAPPIER

       11 BEING RICH WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPY, BUT BEING HAPPY MIGHT MAKE YOU RICH

       12 YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT

       13 RESET YOUR PROGRAMMING

       14 GET DIRTY IN THE SUN

       15 USE GRATITUDE TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN

       AFTERWORD

       NOTES

       LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       OTHER BOOKS BY

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

INTRODUCTION

      What would happen if you sat down, one on one, with 450 successful, unusually impactful people and asked each of them their secrets to performing better as a human being based on their own life experience—and then took the time to statistically analyze their replies and organize what you’d learned?

      For one thing, you would be able to use the resulting data to create a word map like the one below. The bigger the word, the more times the experts said it mattered most.