How to Live an Extraordinary Life

Anthony Pompliano

• Publisher: Harriman House
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780857199928
• eBook ISBN: 9780857199935
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Finance

Anthony Pompliano writes 65 letters to his children with inspiring lessons on how to succeed in business, have great relationships, do well with money, and live a healthier and happier life.What does it take to make the most of what really matters (and to know what that is before it passes you by)? To overcome obstacles that set most people back (and to see them coming beforehand)? To flourish not just financially – but also in your family, free time, and the world of business?What does it take to live an extraordinary life?The answers will surprise you.Anthony Pompliano has lived in a war zone, met and interviewed the world's wealthiest people, built and sold companies, invested in more than 200 businesses, formed friendships around the globe, started a loving family, and found happiness. Along the way, he has kept a personal list of the lessons he has learned.Now, in How to Live an Extraordinary Life, he writes 65 letters to his children laying out each lesson and how he learned it, and explaining how it can be applied by anyone in their life today.The result is a compelling collection of practical and inspiring life strategies that anyone can use to build an extraordinary life.You will find unique advice about using your childhood as a chisel, understanding that luck is not real, living your life as a documentary, developing unshakable resilience, becoming a happier person, and much, much more.Most importantly, Anthony shows that an extraordinary life is within reach for anyone who wants it. You can start right now.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• How you do anything is how you do everything
• Today is practice for tomorrow
• Carve your ethics in stone, write your opinions in sand
• Excellence doesn’t have a watch
• Do it right, do it light
• Build things
• Have a bias for action
• Finish what you start
• Luck is not real
• Chinese farmer
• Two crappy pages per day
• Don’t compare yourself to the bottom of the bucket
• Tie your identity to your own name
• Two years of experience five times
• Life is full of power laws
• Take work off your boss’s desk
• Bad news doesn’t get better with time
• Maker’s schedule, manager’s schedule
• Clear thinking can’t happen in a messy room
• Management makes the rules, management changes the rules
• It’s just business
• Never ask someone to do something you are not willing to do
• Magnets attract opportunities
• What can I do to help you?
• Call your friends for no reason
• Make people talk about themselves
• Genuinely caring is a life hack
• Get on the plane
• Spend time with your peers
• Host dinner for interesting people
• Surround yourself with compounders
• No one is thinking about you
• Fire boring friends
• Respect other people’s time
• You don’t get if you don’t ask
• Compete, don’t complain
• Puzzles, not problems
• Most people would dream of having your problems
• Every play is drawn up to be a touchdown
• Childhood is not a crutch
• Simplicity signals mastery
• Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
• Never argue with a fool
• Change your mind when the facts change
• You can’t be rational with an irrational person
• You don’t have to win every argument
• How to be unhappy
• Optimize your content diet
• Information is a currency
• Document good ideas
• Spend less than you make
• Rich people sell too early
• Buy great assets and hold them forever
• Pictures are memories frozen in time
• Weird things can change the world
• You can’t live an extraordinary life sitting on your couch
• Live your life as a documentary
• We are all going to die
• Walk outside daily
• No stress can withstand a proper workout
• Attack the day
• Sleep is nature’s doctor
• Your intuition is your algorithm
• Write letters
• Publishing details