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    What Extraordinary People Know: How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life
    What Extraordinary People Know: How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life
    What Extraordinary People Know: How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life
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    What Extraordinary People Know: How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life

    By Anthony Moore

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    What's the secret to "extraordinary?"

    Being stuck in mediocrity sucks. It's easy to identify the symptoms of this disease in your life: are you chronically bored? Do you wake up knowing today is going to suck? Are you constantly fighting off feelings of emptiness, exhaustion, and knowing you're wasting your life?

    Well, eff that! Every moment of every day, you can choose to be extraordinary. You can choose to become someone you're incredibly proud to be, who accomplishes amazing goals and achieves greatness. What Extraordinary People Know guides you through how to be free of the mediocrity trap: starting with the inspiration, tools, and kick in the ass you need to get your life going in high gear—from behavioral change and personal growth expert Anthony Moore. As someone who took his own life from ordinary to extraordinary, Moore has created a three-step path to breaking free of Mediocrity and becoming the hero of your own life.

    Are you ready to win?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9781728209333
    What Extraordinary People Know: How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life
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    Anthony Moore

    Anthony Moore writes on personal growth, self-improvement, and behavioral change. His work has been published on Medium, Business Insider, CNBC, Yahoo!, and Thought Catalog. Anthony has a Masters in Psychology from the University of the Rockies. He and his wife live in San Diego, CA but are currently based in Vietnam teaching English and traveling the world.

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      What Extraordinary People Know - Anthony Moore

      Copyright © 2019 by Anthony Moore

      Cover and internal design © 2019 by Sourcebooks

      Cover design by William Riley

      Cover images © onlyyouqj/Freepik

      Sourcebooks, the colophon, and Simple Truths are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks.

      This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.—From a Declaration of Principles Jointly Adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations

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      Published by Simple Truths, an imprint of Sourcebooks

      P.O. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410

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      sourcebooks.com

      To Kimi,

      for believing in me when I didn’t

      believe in myself.

      Contents

      Front Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Part 1. You Are Currently Stuck

      1. What is the Mediocrity Trap?

      2. Why Everyone Remains Stuck

      3. The World and Mediocrity

      Part 2. Breaking Free of the Trap

      4. Change Your Environment or It’ll Change You

      5. Be a Rebel (a.k.a. Embrace the Weird)

      6. What You Believe about Yourself Is What You Become

      7. If You Want to Succeed, You Can’t Just Be Interested—You Need to Be Committed

      8. If You Tolerate Mediocrity, That’s What You Get

      Part 3. Life Free of the Trap: Creating a Winning Mindset

      9. Consistency

      10. Focus on Learning and Creating

      11. Treat Yourself like the Hero (and Work Your Ass Off)

      12. Behave like Successful People Behave

      13. Why You Shouldn’t Take Advice from (Almost) Anyone

      14. Welcome to Life Outside of Mediocre

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Back Cover

      Part 1.

      You Are Currently Stuck

      For most of my life, I lived in a cage of mediocrity.

      That’s the best way I can describe it. It was a prison cell, and all my fears of looking stupid, worries about the future, and anxiety about being chosen—by cute girls, my boss, my family, sports coaches, the cool kids—kept me living as the barest, slimmest act of my true self. I walked through the halls of my high school as a fifteen-year-old student, but inside, I was a terrified little boy, watching life unfold from the safety of my mind.

      I eventually escaped this prison, but this jailbreak took many years. Now, I see other captives masquerading as free men and women, people who don’t even know they’re living life behind bars.

      You are currently stuck. And if you want to get out, you need to understand how this cage works—and how the hell you ended up in it.

      1.

      What Is the Mediocrity Trap?

      Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

      —Steven Pressfield

      The majority of people are living lives that are below their potential. The result? Most of us are unfulfilled.

      How can I say that?

      Well, to start with, most of us don’t have great relationships. Despite living in an age where you can connect to almost anyone at any time, most Americans claim to have an average of only two close friends. In addition, despite the technology that allows for more dating opportunities and connections, it is harder than ever to find the one. Even if you do, half of marriages end in divorce. Do you think the other 50 percent are living the life of their dreams? No! Of that 50 percent, maybe a tenth can say they have an incredible, amazing, fulfilling marriage.

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