The 51% Rule (and 3 More Strategies to Think Like a Millionaire)

Decision-making skills play a key role in every part of life, from professional advancement to personal relationships. Therefore, the ability to pick the best options available can measurably improve your career, family life, and even happiness. But when you’re in the moment, it can be hard to know how to approach a major decision.

In our master guide to making better decisions, we’ll cover advice on decision-making from popular science and psychology authors like Malcolm Gladwell (Blink) and Chip and Dan Heath (Decisive). We’ll arrange their views into concrete principles you can use to analyze a decision, approach it from an informed perspective, and make your decision objectively. We’ll also explain how each of these strategies helps to improve your decision-making process.

If you want to accomplish anything on a large scale, you have to learn to lead a team. What makes leadership difficult, however, is the fact that every quality of a good leader becomes a hindrance when taken to the extreme: At a certain point, courage, discipline, and empathy all become deficiencies like recklessness, rigidness, and emotional paralysis. Thus, leadership requires a delicate balance of various dichotomies: You must be compassionate yet pragmatic, humble yet confident, bold yet cautious. The Dichotomy of Leadership teaches you to master such dichotomies.

As former Navy SEAL commanders and corporate leadership consultants, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin have extensive hands-on leadership experience. In this guide, we’ll explain where Willink and Babin’s expertise overlaps with the ideas of other popular writers on leadership, such as Reed Hastings (No Rules Rules) and Ray Dalio (Principles). We’ll also offer actionable ways to put the authors’ ideas into action, whether you’re leading a team of professionals or just looking to discipline yourself.

In Happy Sexy Millionaire, Steven Bartlett calls out the myth that you can find happiness, love, and wealth if you just follow three simple steps and a hack or two. Bartlett says the internet, social media, and algorithms have dazzled us into believing that we can have the perfect life if we just chase the “right” dreams—a lie that pulls us off the path of genuine contentment, meaning, and fulfillment.

Bartlett, a social media mogul and public speaker, was born in Botswana to a Nigerian mother and British father and raised in a predominantly white area in England. A university dropout, once so poor that he scavenged for food, Bartlett founded the successful internet company Social Chain at age 21 and was by all objective accounts “living the dream.” But when wealth and fame didn’t bring him happiness, Bartlett reevaluated his priorities. He wrote Happy Sexy Millionaire to warn against chasing false idols and encourage others to find contentment and success by being themselves and doing what has meaning to them.

In Happy Sexy Millionaire, Steven Bartlett calls out the myth that you can find happiness, love, and wealth if you just follow three simple steps and a hack or two. Bartlett says the internet, social media, and algorithms have dazzled us into believing that we can have the perfect life if we just chase the “right” dreams—a lie that pulls us off the path of genuine contentment, meaning, and fulfillment.

Bartlett, a social media mogul and public speaker, was born in Botswana to a Nigerian mother and British father and raised in a predominantly white area in England. A university dropout, once so poor that he scavenged for food, Bartlett founded the successful internet company Social Chain at age 21 and was by all objective accounts “living the dream.” But when wealth and fame didn’t bring him happiness, Bartlett reevaluated his priorities. He wrote Happy Sexy Millionaire to warn against chasing false idols and encourage others to find contentment and success by being themselves and doing what has meaning to them.

Many people assume their ideal life will never be more than fantasy, but in reality, you have the power to create the life you dream about. In this book, life coach and self-help guru Tony Robbins provides insights and strategies to help you take control of every aspect of your life, from your emotions to your focus. In many cases, you can make transformational changes to your life through small adjustments, such as swapping out just one word in your vocabulary.

In this guide you’ll learn how your bad habits are wired in your brain, how to decode your negative emotions to find solutions to them, and how to create your destiny.

This guide compares and contrasts Robbins’s ideas with those of other popular self-help authors, as well as current scientific theories. This will provide you with background and a deeper understanding of the lessons in Awaken the Giant Within, as well as some alternative methods for taking control of your life.

In the podcast "Aware & Aggravated", Leo Skepi explores the critical role that self-discipline, swift decision-making, and personal responsibility play in personal and professional success. Skepi candidly shares his bouts with business challenges and how his philosophy of strategic prompt decision-making and self-accountability helped him navigate through them. He drives the point home by suggesting that even fundamental everyday tasks should be approached as personal responsibilities, thereby promoting resilience and initiative.

In addition, Skepi delves into how harnessing technology can aid in achieving discipline and how the magnetic effect of disciplined individuals can defy the common perception of stringent discipline repelling others. With his empowering narrative, he concludes by positing that everyone is capable of confronting and managing their challenges, encouraging his listeners to approach situations in a way that portrays a positive image to others. Skepi's podcast succinctly encapsulates the essence of personal transformation and the numerous advantages of adopting a swift, goal-oriented approach with self-discipline at its core.

If you want to accomplish anything on a large scale, you have to learn to lead a team. What makes leadership difficult, however, is the fact that every quality of a good leader becomes a hindrance when taken to the extreme: At a certain point, courage, discipline, and empathy all become deficiencies like recklessness, rigidness, and emotional paralysis. Thus, leadership requires a delicate balance of various dichotomies: You must be compassionate yet pragmatic, humble yet confident, bold yet cautious. The Dichotomy of Leadership teaches you to master such dichotomies.

As former Navy SEAL commanders and corporate leadership consultants, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin have extensive hands-on leadership experience. In this guide, we’ll explain where Willink and Babin’s expertise overlaps with the ideas of other popular writers on leadership, such as Reed Hastings (No Rules Rules) and Ray Dalio (Principles). We’ll also offer actionable ways to put the authors’ ideas into action, whether you’re leading a team of professionals or just looking to discipline yourself.

In Happy Sexy Millionaire, Steven Bartlett calls out the myth that you can find happiness, love, and wealth if you just follow three simple steps and a hack or two. Bartlett says the internet, social media, and algorithms have dazzled us into believing that we can have the perfect life if we just chase the “right” dreams—a lie that pulls us off the path of genuine contentment, meaning, and fulfillment.

Bartlett, a social media mogul and public speaker, was born in Botswana to a Nigerian mother and British father and raised in a predominantly white area in England. A university dropout, once so poor that he scavenged for food, Bartlett founded the successful internet company Social Chain at age 21 and was by all objective accounts “living the dream.” But when wealth and fame didn’t bring him happiness, Bartlett reevaluated his priorities. He wrote Happy Sexy Millionaire to warn against chasing false idols and encourage others to find contentment and success by being themselves and doing what has meaning to them.