50 cent history biography book

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But as you go forward you often lose patience, because the small steps to get there are not nearly as exciting as the ambitious visions in your head. You must try instead the opposite approach, which can lead to very different results. You have a project you wish to bring to life, but you begin by immersing yourself in the details of the subject or field.

You look at the materials you have to work with, the tastes of your target audience, and the latest technical advances in the field. You take pleasure in going deeper and deeper into these fine points - your research is intense. From this knowledge, you shape the project itself, grounding it in reality rather than in airy concepts in your head.

Operating this way helps you slow your mind down and develop patience for detailed work, an essential skill for mastering any craft. Whatever any of them wanted, he would provide, as long as the proved themselves dependable and shared his sense of purpose. They could be rappers on the record label he would establish or road managers for his tours; or they could go to college and get a degree - he would pay for it all.

You could experiment and push past the limits people have set for you. You could take action that is different from what they expect. But that is to incur a risk. You are being unconventional, perhaps a bit strange in the eyes of those who know you. You could fail in this action and be ridiculed. Conforming to people's expectations is safer and more comfortable, even if doing so makes you feel miserable and confined.

In essence, you are afraid of yourself and what you could become. It is not something that people grant us as a privilege or right. It is a state of mind that we must work to attain and hold on to - with much effort. It is something active and not passive. It comes from exercising free will. You are an individual, with ideas and skills that make you unique.

But people are constantly trying to fit you into narrow categories that make you more predictable and easier to manage. They want to see you as shy or outgoing, sensitive or tough. If you succumb to this pressure, then you may gain some social acceptance, but you will lose the unconventional parts of your character that are the source of your uniqueness and power.

You must resist this process at all costs, seeing people's neat and tidy judgements as a form of confinement. Your task is to retain or rediscover those aspects of your character that defy categorization, and to give them even greater play. Remaining unique, you will create something unique and inspire the kind of respect you would never receive from tepid conformity.

This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers. Show full review. Author 13 books followers. Robert Greene is a friend, but also someone I am a fan of as well. This is a book that he put together with 50 Cent, regarding the role one has to play to obtain a sense of success - which of course can be financial but as well as success on an everyday level.

Although this book is sort of a re-mix of Robert's "48 Laws of Power" it is a little bit more, because one of the focus points is the life and times of rapper 50 Cent. Who in turn is a fascinating figure, in that he knew by instinct how to survive the jungle of hustling, business and music world as well. But the main enjoyment for me is Robert riffing through history to make sense of a world that is totally insane and how to ride that wild horse that's life.

Economics as well as emotional issues. When you lose everything, it makes one stronger. I know that first hand as well. Further, while Fitty may be an inspiration in a number of realms, emulate-able leadership is not one of them. In a sometimes airlessly academic style, Greene explains that his concept of fearless leadership is supported by a host of philosophers from Socrates forward.

Micah Smurthwaite. Accepting your own mortality. What prevents us from doing what we really want to do is fear. Fear of failure, fear we won't be accepted, fear of death. When we accept the fact that one day we will die, we are empowered. Most of us don't touch death daily so when we experience a death in our lives it rattles us. Just say this out loud and notice how you feel, "I will die.

He is a voracious reader and carefully calculates business strategy. Knock his flow if you want, but his business acumen is off the charts. I will probably read this one again. Normally, I would not have read this book, but I picked it up for a friend who is a huge fan of 50 cent. Soooo, I decided to give it a try. I found it to be the most repetitious book I have ever read in my entire life!

The same story is repeated over and over and over again! If I thought it was worth my time, I would count the number of times the story of his shooting and being dropped by his record label is repeated.

50 cent history biography book

Also, we are told over and over again how his name used to be Curtis and is now 50 cent! The rest of the book alternates between his dealing drugs in the hood and other people's stories of how they made something of themselves. While there are a few interesting tidbits here, I would definitely NOT recommend this one, even to die hard fans!

Yesenia Cash. I would love to buy this for every teenager in urban communities. Fofty did such a great job with this!!! This book put me on so many great historical figures I am now adding Catherine the Greats book to my Amazon cart as well as everything written by Richard Wright! Author 44 books 27 followers. While Greene's other books have a heavy literary, if not academic weight, The 50th Law is comparatively breezy and light.

That said, I had a really hard time putting the book down - I read the whole thing during two very late nights - and I enjoyed seeing the Machiavellian ideas grafted onto the rough Queens neighborhood 50 Cent grew up in. It is a good dessert for fans of Greene's other law books, but if it comes down to choice, I'd definitely start with his earlier, heftier material.

Josh Laird. Surprisingly enjoyable. An analysis of 50 Cent's life as a hustler and how some of his methods can be applied to the corporate world. An interesting parallel was 50 testing a new batch on a few people he trusts and if it was good, he would know to charge a decent price. Very similar to user testing in Software Biggest takeaway was to nearly die so I can learn to not give a fuck and become fearless.

Nick Short. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel. The book explains an understanding of the interplay of fear, despair, illusion, boredom, and death juxtaposed with skill acquisition, knowledge, power, purpose, and the sublime. This book is a collaboration by rapper 50 Cent and author Robert Greene The 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction , The 33 Strategies of War , Mastery who both share a similar intensely realistic, self reliant and zen-like view of the world.

Familiarizing himself with the depths of human psychology through trial and error, in drug dealing and the music industry. Greene came to a similar view through traveling the world, working boatloads of odd jobs, and reading tons of history. These realists stand in contrast to dreamers and charlatans, those of high imagination who more often divert us than inspire us with their ideals and fantastical creations.

Dreamers misread the actual state of things and act upon their emotions toward their idea of the ideal state of things. Greene explains these people as being the source of the greatest mistakes in history—wars not thought out and disasters not foreseen. Men and women of imagination, but their imagination is in close contact with reality—they are empirical scientists, writers with a sharp understanding of human nature, or leaders who guide us thoughtfully through crises.

They are strong enough to see the world as it is, including their own personal inadequacies. Avoid the legend and the hype. Ask who were they before they did the work that got them where they ended, and what was their mindset during this learning phase? These are just some of the examples. One of the greatest obstacles to any transformative effect in life is hampered by the routine, conventional, surrounding yourself with people who have the same illusory and socially reinforced baggage that mis-define what are and what are not obstacles and achievements.

This is brought about by an interrelated effect between boredom and fear. Those who can not only endure boredom but learn to derive pleasure from it are those who succeed in life. Modern americans live with an incredible amount of free time and also an incredible amount of monotony work. We live for the free time. But the free time is spent on diversions and with a hope in the back of the head that maybe someday an opportunity will come to change this.

Such empty time faintly echoes the eternal emptiness of death itself. They want to be X celebrity or someone else. I fyou reach that goal, it will bring you far greater satisfaction than the evanescent thrills that come form outside diversions.. Your mind becomes absorbed in furhter mastery. Unlike diversions from outside sources this comes comes from within.

You are developing a lifelong skill, the kind of mental discipline that will serve as foundation of your power. Heart of a Hustler. Constructing Your Crew. Knowing Your Value. Power of Perception. If We Cant Be Friends.