Guillebeau shows readers how to lead a life of adventure, meaning, and purpose while eschewing typical employment.
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Among Chris\'s key principles: If you\'re good at one thing, you\'re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish--sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins.
Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; What these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick.
All you need is a product or service that springs from What you Love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid.
You don\'t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees.
It\'s all about finding the intersection between your expertise--even if you don\'t consider it such--and What other people will pay for.
Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who\'ve learned how to turn What they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment.
In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment.
Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and focused on the 50 most intriguing case studies.
Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses What he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back.
Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms.--Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project Still in his early thirties, Chris Guillebeau completed a tour of every country on earth and yet he\'s never held a real job or earned a regular paycheck.
Lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose--and earn a good living.
He profiles 50 of the most intriguing case studies of how people turned their personal passions into monetization opportunities.
Guillebeau shows readers how to lead a life of adventure, meaning, and purpose while eschewing typical employment
