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What do I love about: Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter?
I had to reread this book after I finished reading it the first time. The book is raw, simple and straight to the point. I love the themes 50 cent used to organize the chapters. Till this book I had not known anything about the man 50 cents. A man whose discipline and tenacity has led him to achieve tremendous success in both his rap and his business career
What do I not love about: Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter?
Zilch
Who should read: Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter?
Everyone. Even if this genre is not your usual
Who should not read: Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter?
I really do recommend this book to all. Even if you do not like 50 cent as a person.
Notes about Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter?
Chapter 1: Finding Fearlessness
- Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead
- Street hustle: I live on the edge I am only free because I am not afraid. Everything I am afraid of already happened to me
- Comfort is a dream killer. It saps our ambition, blinds our vision and promotes complacency
- It is not death a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live
- The key to overcome fear is to do the work
Chapter 2: Heart of a hustler
- Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle
- Hard work is the most critical ingredient for success
- Embrace a lifestyle that enables your work ethics i.e no drinking and drugs, workout, eat clean and sleep
- Passion makes perfect
- Use vision board
- Trust your instinct. Listen to your intuition but also embrace strategy
Chapter 3. Constructing your crew
- The greatest asset of any entrepreneur is being an astute judge of character
- Your team or who you surround yourself, who you marry have the biggest impact in your life
- Whenever you find success in life, there will be people who believe it belongs to them
- Handle internal problems first- no matter how high you build your empire you would never be able to maintain it if your house is not in order
Chapter 4: Know your worth
- Know your worth then add tax
- You are vulnerable when you pour your heart into something and it doesn’t work out
- Focus on the potential and not the pay day
- Place maximum value on how you spend your time
- Always put promises on paper
Chapter 5: Evolve or die
- Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely get satisfied with them. The things are just the bait chasing after them forces us to evolve and it is the evolution and not the rewards themselves that matter. This means for most people that success is struggling and evolving as effective as possible.
- You may never see the writing of the wall but you need to feel the energy around and have enough vision
Chapter 6: Power of perception
- The world will see you the way you see you and the way you treat yourself
- Influencing how people perceive you does not make you fake
- Neediness is a turnoff to everyone. Unattainability is the ultimate aphrodisiac
- The confidence is the most important character trait
Chapter 7: If we can’t be friends we should be enemies so we can coexist
- Competition brings out the best
- Iron sharpens iron
- The better your opponent is the better you become
- Shoot for the moon and if you fall you fall among the stars
- If you are going to compete, do it with the best
Chapter 8: Learning from your loss
- Admit you are wrong
Chapter 9: The entitlement trap
- There is joy in work. There is no happiness in accepting the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford
- Some people are not built to make it. No matter how much support or love you show, their lowest habit will pull them right back to whatever struggle they come from
- The sense of want can be is a tremendous motivation
- Feeling like you want more than what you have keeps complacency away
- I use to think I was from the button but my trip to Africa was a wakeup call . It turns out I didn’t have any idea what the bottom looked liked. My African brothers and sisters were struggling in a way I wasn’t remotely familiar with.