FORBES #1 CAREER BOOK TO READ IN 2018
The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world’s most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.
The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure—from hacking Warren Buffett’s shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga—as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success. After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took the Third Door.
Life, business, success… it’s just like a nightclub. There are always three ways in. There’s the First Door: the main entrance, where ninety-nine percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in. The Second Door: the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through. But what no one tells you is that there is always, always… the Third Door. It’s the entrance where you have to jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, climb over the dumpster, crack open the window, sneak through the kitchen—there’s always a way in. Whether it’s how Bill Gates sold his first piece of software or how Steven Spielberg became the youngest studio director in Hollywood history, they all took the Third Door.
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Summary
From: Andrew Ullmann
Book Title: The Third Door
Book Author: Alex Banayan
What do you like about this book:
This is the best “self-improvement” book I’ve ever read. I often get recommended books like this: The Four Hour Work Week, Habits, etc. All of these are genuinely good books and I’m happy to have read them.
However, they really pale in comparison to The Third Door. Often these type of books present a theory and then provide anecdotes as support. Banayan opted to do the opposite. The narrative he uses to discuss the habits of successful people is enthralling. It reads like fiction and makes me wish I had reached for that third door while also a student at USC.
You truly must read this book. It’s short, sweet, masterfully written, and will leave you wanting to find the third door in everything you do.
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