{"id":33938,"date":"2019-07-15T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33938"},"modified":"2019-07-14T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:02:14","slug":"advice-from-books-2-4-3-3-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/advice-from-books-2-4-3-3-3-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #13: How To Make Yourself Valuable To Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this issue of Book Freak: advice for being useful to other people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solve problems for people<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWhen you solve problems and satisfy needs, you put yourself in a unique position. You\u2019re doing something for the customer that he isn\u2019t used to getting from others. The others are simply going along, taking orders, doing what they\u2019re asked to do. They aren\u2019t looking for ways to be of greater value, so they don\u2019t enjoy greater income and opportunities.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Harry Browne, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2lm7v8V\">How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adopt the craftsman mindset<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIf you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (\u2018what can the world offer me?\u2019) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (&#8216;what can I offer the world?\u2019)\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 Cal Newport, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2lm5No0\">So Good They Can\u2019t Ignore You<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus on the people who love you<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cNo matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won\u2019t care. Stick with the people who love you and don\u2019t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 James Altucher, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2jRCV6F\">Choose Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice for being useful to other people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33941,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938\/revisions\/33941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}