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How to Reinvent Yourself Using the “Rule of Fives”
Reinvent Yourself, by James Altucher, is a book that keeps reinventing itself as it goes along, and, while it’s not exactly a book I “can’t stop thinking about,” I was able to find plenty of incredibly useful ideas here, and several that occupied my mind for hours.
One such idea, the Rule of Fives, I’m going to introduce you to later on because of its transformative power on the lives of literally every single person who encounters it.
The book itself is about reinvention, obviously, but since it’s mostly a collection of Altucher’s various blog posts, there were a few entries in here that were just tenuously tied to the topic of reinvention.
That’s not a criticism, by the way, but rather a gentle caution to expect lots of jumping around in terms of subject matter. We’ve got chapters on negotiation, what he learned from Elon Musk, what he learned from Richard Branson, what he learned from chess, what he learned from Pope Francis, etc. Reinvent Yourself is not about just one thing, but rather surrounds and attacks the problem of change and growth from every possible angle.
