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Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

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《時代》雜誌專欄作家一鳴驚人之作
每週32萬讀者引領期待

談工作、談生活、談關係、談情緒
一次讀完十年來最暢銷成功勵志書籍探討主題
《華爾街日報》暢銷書
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關於成功,古今中外有數不清的論述
大多言之有理、立意良善,只可惜往往淪為空談(如果不是錯得離譜的話)

●我們從小被告誡要乖乖聽話,好好讀書,長大了才會有出息。
賈伯斯、比爾.蓋茲、馬克.祖克柏這些輟學始祖們,卻⋯⋯異常成功。
●人類生而不平等,聰明才智、外貌身材、性格、疾病等,基因決定一切?
新一派遺傳學發現,換了一種環境,原本的「壞基因」也能誕生好結果。
●真實世界的運作方式和你想的不一樣,好人不長命,禍害遺千年?
如何成功當個好人,獲得應有報酬,而不是屢屢慘遭利用?
本書作者艾瑞克•巴克為多家主流媒體長期撰稿人,作品散見於《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》、《大西洋月刊》等,他的部落格網站Barking Up the Wrong Tree訂戶超過32萬人,文章同步轉載於《時代》雜誌與《商業內幕》。

成功是人人追求的事物,巴克在本書彙集了十年來最暢銷成功勵志書籍探討的主題,採訪、引用史丹佛、哈佛、華頓商學院等眾多學院教授的研究分析,以活潑、詼諧的敘事手法,提出精闢但不失幽默的見解,幫助我們思考如何讓工作和生活變得更好:

●不論你是樂觀者或悲觀者、個性外向或內向,成功與性格、環境和選擇的領域高度相關,你要先認識自己,選對池塘。本書有六道心理測驗題,帶你找到人生方向。
●社會人心險惡,但我們都想當個好人,巴克告訴你出社會一定要懂的六件事,還有一生受用的做人四原則,帶你避開「一報還一報」的惡性循環。
● 職場到底是靠實力還是靠人脈?除非你真的很懂;五個方法,幫助你有效建立人脈、找到好導師。
●自信讓人無往不利,不但賺的錢更多、生產力更高、升遷機會也更大,但過度自信造成的問題比自信不足更大。如何拿捏?你可以學會自我疼惜。
● 人生是一場取捨,超時工作只會增加壓力,睡眠不足會造成很多問題,掌握四項重要指標,可以幫助你做出更好的選擇。想要工作與生活平衡?記得,夠好便已足夠。


本書介出自遠見天下文化出版《成功不再跌跌撞撞》


Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:

● Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
● Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers

● Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
● The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
● How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.

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