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Confidence and Success => How To Be Successful => Topic started by: thebbqguy on June 03, 2010, 06:38:23 PM

Title: The Leap by Rick Smith
Post by: thebbqguy on June 03, 2010, 06:38:23 PM

I've been reading The Leap, a book by Rick Smith, this week. It's a short book with lots of anecdotes of successful people and how they got that way.  Has anyone else read this book?  

He dispels a lot of myths about successful people being risk takers who threw caution to the wind. Even Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard, had a risk mitigation strategy.  He'd tested the waters before taking the final plunge. Most of the success examples he writes about in the book started out part time and some stumbled onto their success. Others were prodded into it by their close friends and acquaintances.

Title: Re: The Leap by Rick Smith
Post by: Tyler on June 04, 2010, 10:25:53 AM

I haven't read it, but it sounds like one I need to pick up this weekend.  Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: The Leap by Rick Smith
Post by: Pshrynk on June 04, 2010, 12:27:53 PM

Thanks for the suggestion -- will have to track it down.

Title: Re: The Leap by Rick Smith
Post by: xnewyawka on June 10, 2010, 09:37:44 AM

Thanks, I'll check it out as well.