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Now since then, that was 2013 so that's six years ago, enough people have tried the ideas in the book that now they're getting back to me. People are saying they got promotions. People have lost vast amounts of weight because using a system instead of a goal for weight loss. And just these tremendous life changes. People will start companies, quit their job, made a fortune. I mean I literally hear this every day. Every single day somebody contacts me usually in social media and says your book changed my life.
Then I wrote Win Bigly that came out about President Trump's powers of persuasion and it wasn't just about Trump. It was a book to teach you persuasion in a very approachable everyday way so you can see it happening to you. You could use the same techniques for your own benefit for your business for your personal life. And now I'm starting to hear those reports. So enough time is going by that I can't tell you how many people read that book, contacted me and said hey you know I wanted a better situation in my job and I would say well you know use some of those techniques in the book. And then they get back to me and say I got a huge raise or I got a promotion. So Win Bigly is actually totally changing people's lives. That they are getting richer by using their negotiating powers and their persuasion powers and going out and getting stuff. They're getting raises. They're getting promotions. They're doing things that they didn't feel they had the tools to go get that thing. And then when they realize that the tools are quite approachable once they've been explained to them then they could just take those into their boss and next thing you know, raise.
So my new book that's available for presale, Loserthink, is written for the same general purpose. Meaning that it's meant to have a direct improvement on your life. In this case to allow you to see the world in a clearer way. So Loserthink is unproductive ways of thinking. And unproductive in this context just means you don't have experience across a number of domains. For example when I was just talking about climate change did you notice how I put an economic spin on climate change? The reason I can do that is because I'm an economics major, you know MBA etc. So I've actually worked and lived in that world where you're doing projections. So when I look at the economic projections I can just see a little bit deeper. I can understand them with more texture than if I had never had that background.
Now the argument is you don't need to have a degree in economics to get the basics. For example it would be easy to learn about sunk costs. It would take me a minute to explain it to you and then you'd know it forever. It would take me maybe two minutes to explain the entire concept of the discounted value of money if you've never heard of it. It's maybe, maybe you should. And to understand that money in the future is worth less than money today. So there are probably a dozen or so basic ways of thinking that are common to different disciplines. If you've never been exposed to them, let's say your channel in life had been art. If you were an art major or let's say just a history major and you were looking at the world of politics you would be flying totally blind because you would be looking in one window. The window that you learned. Your artist's window or your history window or whatever. You're looking in one window. You're saying okay I see this house and it's a bathroom. That's it. I'm only looking through one window. All I see is a bathroom. I gotta go. That's a delivery.
But if you can see through more windows you can see the world better. And that's what Loserthink is about. Teaching you to look out all the windows. I hope you get it. Pre-order now on Amazon. Bye.