Startup Your Life, Anna Akbari
Startup Your Life, Anna Akbari
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Startup Your Life
Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness

Author: Anna Akbari

Narrator: Anna Akbari

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/01/2017


Synopsis

As an entrepreneur, Anna Akbari learned that one of the best things about startups is their ability to “pivot” quickly-basically a euphemism for failing and starting over. And she quickly found that personal success is no different. It’s not just about developing and following the right process but also having a good idea. And that demands rigor and daily maintenance-far beyond a few positive affirmations. Like any Silicon Valley startup, the business of life is not as glamorous as its Instagram account would make it seem.

What do you do when planning is not an option? When control is out of your reach? You isolate the small stuff, experiment constantly, and use the results to lay a more sustainable foundation for the future. You validate your idealized vision by testing it out in bite-sized increments. You see what sticks, integrate, and move forward. And inevitably, you experience a series of failures along the way, but those failures are key to your next success.

Living a start up life is about maximizing flexibility and measuring on-going results, not avoiding failure or reaching one particular end goal. It's about embracing defeat, analyzing it, and failing up. In Startup Your Life, Akbari shows that after all, it's often the stumbles that pave the way for real happiness.

About Anna Akbari

Anna Akbari, PhD is a sociologist, writer, speaker, and thought leadership advisor to high-profile individuals. She collaborates on books with celebrities, executives, and public figures, and is also the author of Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way To Happiness. She has written for or been featured by The New York Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, TIME, The Economist, Financial Times, TED, Bulletproof Executive, Psychology Today, Vogue, Google Talks, CNN, SiriusXM, and many more.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MD on February 26, 2017

I've been in the business world for quite a while, including working as an IT project manager in an Agile environment. I've read a lot of business books, including the Tony Hsieh book the author cites. I was expecting a book about achieving personal happiness. This book felt like a book of advice fo......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on February 06, 2017

I won this book in a goodreads giveaway. i am so grateful I did, this has given me the motivation, tools and steps to get my life back on track and head in the direction I want to go. The writing is straight forward,a s is the advice. The analogies used are relevant to the subject and help to put con......more

Goodreads review by Mujahid on February 01, 2017

Book was great inspire a couple new songs another pretty book with valuable information her perspective was strong kinda enjoy the way she put it her word structure was nice...Enjoy the overall theme pull it all together at the end finish with a conclusion...Great Job......more

Goodreads review by Ted on December 22, 2016

Startup Your Life is a GREAT book with a very important theme that is super relevant to navigating today's rapidly changing world. Well written and, more importantly, very practical. I don't understand the low reviews from the other reviewers. This book has a great story about how the author started......more

Goodreads review by Haylie on June 27, 2017

I was lucky enough to win this book in a Goodreads giveaway. This book is very great if you enjoy self help and motivational reads. It was very easy to connect with the author and their story. I was able to pick and choose parts of this book that related and benefit me but think that this book would......more