Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by 50 CentMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This has some excellent advice with some incredible stories.
As always, some of the advice can be found in other books, just packaged in a different way. But this book seems to be more self-aware than many. For example, 50 cent talks about how, after reading Robert Green's 48 laws of power, only one really stuck with him (never outshine your superiors), and it served him really well over the years. Likewise, he hopes we find at least one of his rules that resonates with us and we can carry along with us.
Some of my notes:
“Fear dominates most people’s lives. Fear of loss. Fear of failure. Fear of the unknown. Fear of loneliness.”
The thing most people are comfortable with is fear. If you're afraid of flying, you don't fly. If you're scared of going for it, you don't go for it. This is very dangerous.
“If you’ve put in the work, and know your shit, raise your damn hand!”
You can be really smart, but you need to speak up otherwise others won't know.
You may out-rhyme me, and even out-smart me, but you'll never out-hustle me.
The story about vitamin water is interesting
Very interesting how/why other rappers around him didn't make it
If he comes up with a good rhyme now, he'll give it to a young rapper with tight jeans and facial tattoos, because no one will want to hear it from him.
His anecdote about Mike Pence's "won't eat with a woman without my wife present" is very interesting.
He leaked his "album" to bootleggers to create buzz, which seems like a great strategy.
He mentions how competition is good, and he seems to make use of it from the underdog point of view. He will shoot for something doing better (targeting GoT when he has his show Power). He knows he won't win that battle, but it will get him more viewers and more buzz.
He also mentioned the tour in Switzerland where I saw him! (in passing but whatev)
And boy, what a life.
I listened to the audiobook, narrated by 50 cent.
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