Eric Barker
Eric Barker is the creator of the blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree, which presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. His work has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, TIME magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He is a former Hollywood screenwriter, having worked on projects for Walt Disney Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, and Revolution Studios. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from Boston College and a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA.
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
- By: Eric Barker
- Narrator: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 16, 2017
- Language: English
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4.11(10865 ratings)
Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:
* Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
* Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers
* Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
* The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
* How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man
By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them–and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
... Read morePlays Well with Others
- By: Eric Barker
- Narrator: Roger Wayne
- Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 10, 2022
- Language: English
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4.14(950 ratings)
From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness–a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether you’re an extrovert or introvert, socially adept or socially anxious.
Can you judge a book by its cover?
Is a friend in need truly a friend indeed?
Does love conquer all?
Is no man an island?
In Plays Well With Others, Eric Barker dives into these questions, drawing on science to reveal the truth beyond the conventional wisdom about human relationships. Combining his compelling storytelling and humor, Barker explains what hostage negotiation techniques and marital arguments have in common, how an expert con-man lied his way into a twenty-year professional soccer career, and why those holding views diametrically opposed to our own actually have the potential to become our closest, most trusted friends.
Leveraging the best evidence available–free of platitudes or magical thinking–Barker analyzes multiple sides of an issue before rendering his verdict. What he’s uncovered is surprising, counterintuitive, and timely–and will change the way you interact in the world and with those around you just when you need it most.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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