{"id":13954,"date":"2019-10-27T04:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13954"},"modified":"2019-10-27T04:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T11:45:50","slug":"the-13-bio-riders-of-the-business-bookocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-13-bio-riders-of-the-business-bookocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13 Bio-Riders Of The Business Bookocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked by wise-beyond-his-years-just-for-asking 25-year old \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber John Brandt about my favorite biographies.<\/p>\n<p>And it was a smart question indeed.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, over the last few years, I\u2019ve heavily switched from only studying books about business, copywriting, selling, persuasion, etc to reading biographies about people who have accomplished great things.<\/p>\n<p>Including, in at least one case, people despise, but still learned from.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because biographies of people who have accomplished great things, change the way you think. They change the way you view success. And, they change the way you attack problems. The things you learn in biographies like this ain\u2019t the same old, same old you are going to learn in yet another guru-promoted business book on Amazon or in a regurgitated IM launch with a fancy whiz-bang name attached to it designed to rile up the goo-roo fanboys and affiliates haunting the Flakebook.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the magical 100th issue of the mighty \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>It contains an insert with my favorite biographies.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically the 13 I\u2019ve gotten the most from so far\u2026 along with the main idea\/lesson\/influence I got from reading them. Each of the books has dozens more takeaways, of course. But if you see one that especially appeals to you on that list, I suggest ripping into that one and giving it what-for\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you\u2019ll have to be subscribed to see this list.<\/p>\n<p>And, even more importantly, be subscribed before the Halloween deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the link to subscribe while there\u2019s still some time:<\/p>\n<p>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked by wise-beyond-his-years-just-for-asking 25-year old \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber John Brandt about my favorite biographies. And it was a smart question indeed. In fact, over the last few years, I\u2019ve heavily switched from only studying books about business, copywriting, selling, persuasion, etc to reading biographies about people who have accomplished great things. Including, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-inner-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}