
The Law of Large Numbers
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He is a frequent expert commentator on media worldwide, including CNBC and more than 100 radio stations. He has been awarded the highest 5-star interview rating by the Copley News Network. He has authored more than 1,800 searchable articles, appearing in more than one million publications, online.
Gary has also taught on the regular faculty at the University of Southern California, California State University Northridge, and DePauw University. Additionally, his groundbreaking seminars have been sponsored worldwide by professional associations, corporations, and by 39 universities. He is celebrating his 20th year teaching at UCLA and his 12th at U.C. Berkeley, the top two public universities in the world.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Why You Need to Read This Book
- One College Isn't Enough!
- These Little-Town Blues .
- Sales Is a Large-Numbers Game
- "It's Either Quality or Quantity!"
- Computer Dating
- The Man Who Flunked the Bar Forty-Seven Times
- Virtues and Large Numbers
- The Law in Sports
- You Don't Have to Be Perfect!
- Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Poorly
- Looking Good Is Overrated
- Invest a Day in Numerous Lives
- Change Your Definition of Failure
- It's Usually Too Soon to Throw In the Towel
- Do You Really Want Washboard Abs?
- Improve Your Social Life
- The Bible Encourages Large-Numbers Thinking
- Can We Stick with Certain Things Too Long?
- What Are the Opportunity Costs?
- The Law of Large Numbers Way of Quitting
- Should You Stay in That Relationship?
- Conquer Your Fears through the Law
- Create an Arithmetic of Success
- How to Pursue Scarce Resources
- Never Tell Me the Odds!
- Get In and Spread Out
- Large Numbers Will Turn You into a Force of Nature
- Keep Doing What Made You Successful
- Small-Numbers Voodoo and How to Avoid It
- Always a Bride, Never a Bridesmaid
- We Also Marry Our Schools, Jobs, and Stockbrokers
- Why Get All Your Degrees from the Same Place?
- The Womb-to-Tomb Illusion
- Never Give Away Exclusive Rights
- Laziness May Be Your Greatest Foe
- Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
- The Psychology of Flow
- List Your Victories
- There Is No Such Thing as a Money Problem
- Thinking Big Requires Large-Numbers Thinking
- People Love to Participate in Something Big
- Watch Great Runnings Backs Run
- Interval Training: A Great Way to Rack Up the Numbers
- The Schedule of Rewards Can Be More Important than Their Amount
- Commissions Aren't for Everyone
- Don't Take Your Cues from Others
- Should I Have Started with Mahogany?
- Lose Often Enough and You'll Finally Win!
- What Price Will You Pay?
- Make a Decision
- Martial Artists Know about Commitment
- The Large-Numbers Secret to Growing Rich
- The Large-Numbers View of Life
- Make Monotony Your Friend
- Grooves Aren't Ruts
- Develop Performative Discipline
- Winning Is a Habit
- It's Smarter to Work Harder
- The Formula for Success
- The Principle of Inertia
- When You're Hot, You're Hot
- Success Breeds Success
- Everybody Loves a Lover
- The Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Poorer
- You Can't Predict Who Will Say Yes
- Contact Your Entire List
- Repeat Large-Numbers Affirmations
- Here's to Good Days and to Better Ones!
- The Limits of Your Language Are the Limits of Your World
- Avoid Hardening of the Attitudes
- Multiply Your Appreciations
- Ask at Least One Interesting Question
- Inch by Inch, It's a Cinch
- Put Yourself at Cause
- A Small-Numbers Outlook Will Put You at Effect
- Watch Out for Limiting Generalizations
- "Every Day, in Every Way, I'm Getting Better and Better!"
- The Patience of Surfers
- No Pain, No Gain
- The Desire to Win Is Nothing without the Desire to Prepare!
- Want More Oil? Dig More Wells
- Self-Discipline through Large Numbers
- "Nobody Ever Got Rich Selling Self-Discipline!"
- "Sure, It Was Hard, but You Did It Hard!"
- Ambivalence Is Your Enemy
- You Can Set Goals Even if They're Not Clear
- Large Numbers and Your Personality
- If You Want Rainbows, You'll Have to Put Up with the Rain
- We Don't Solve Most of Our Problems
- We Outlive Them
- Are Deadlines Necessary?
- Science Leaps Forward by Riding Lots of Horses
- "Colleges Are Very Successful, but They Don't Know It"
- Are You a Money Personality?
- Try to See the Big in the Small
- Large-Numbers Campaigns Are Habit-Forming
- Reaching Enlightenment through the Law
- Five Hundred Fights
- "It's Not for Everyone"
- The Telemarketers' Mistake
- It Didn't Have to Turn Out This Way
- Record Breakers Are Usually Large-Numbers People
- The Guinness Book of Large Numbers?
- There's No Joy in Heaven over Empty Churches
- Reincarnation: A Large-Numbers Concept
- Apply Large Numbers to Your Skills Development
- Go Ahead-Give It Away Every Now and Then
- Don't Get Too Picky
- Devise Your Own Large-Numbers Action Plan
- Diversify!
- What Happens When You Have a Hit on Your Hands?
- What Kind of Person Will You Become?
- Afterword
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