Full Description
What happens when you approach the real world like a video game? You start winning-at life.In this radical new perspective on achieving success, marketing leader and eSports player Eric Siu outlines 15 personal power-ups that will help you unlock your passion and level up your life.You'll follow the same steps that Siu used to transform himself from academic and social failure to wildly successful marketing entrepreneur and podcaster-by applying his mindset as a competitive eSports gamer to real-life situations. Siu didn't stop playing video games; he just started gaming in his real life, setting himself quests, goals, and rewards at each level. Now, he's passing the torch to you.In Leveling Up, Siu challenges you to conquer the real world by accumulating 15 personal power-ups that will help you focus on your passion and develop it into a winning career. Every chapter brings insights and stories, advice from others who have succeeded, and a quest that you must undertake. Master all 15 levels, and you'll even unlock a special bonus to help you build the life of your dreams.Are you ready to test your might?
Contents
IntroductionMy BackstoryThe BeginningLevel 1: Newbie StrugglesMy JourneyThe Road AheadThe Newbie MindsetPower-UpsGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: The BeginningLevel 2: Your MissionThe Amazing JourneyFind or Be FoundMission or No Mission?Gamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Uncover Your MissionLevel 3: MindsetIs Success Really in the Cards?The Mind GameThink GrowthGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Build a Poker MindLevel 4: Get ReadingKnow the GameNever PeakFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Emerson SpartzGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Dive DeepLevel 5: RoutinesThe Michael Jordan of GamingMy Habit JournalFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Noah Kagan from AppSumoYour Life with These Power TipsQuest: Manage Your HabitsLevel 6: Apprentice MentalityDon't Stop BeginningRefresh Your MindFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Andy Mackensen and Sean KellyGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Refresh Your Beginner's MindLevel 7: GritCan You Hack the Route to Success?The Struggle Is the GameThe Best FuelFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Ron KleinGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Give It a ShotLevel 8: AlchemyGive to GetWhat if You Build It and They Don't Come?From the Leveling Up Podcast: Derek Halpern of Social TriggersBonus Mini-interview with Nathan Chan from Foundr MagazineGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Mark the MarketingLevel 9: TeamworkWhat Makes a Great Team?What Are Your Core Values?From the Leveling Up Podcast: Robert GlazerGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Build Your GuildLevel 10: MeditationsBudget Your Worrying BetterHow to Be a StoicFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Brian DeanGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: ReframeLevel 11: FocusWhat's Your First Love?From the Leveling Up Podcast: Ramit SethiGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Add MyelinLevel 12: Endurance Fail Early, Fail OftenEndure and BuildFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Mark NewmanGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: Plan Out the Long GameLevel 13: ThieverySteal Their Best MovesStealing Lessons from Leveling UpGamify Your Life with These Power TipsQuest: What Do You Want to Steal?Level 14: RepetitionGrind Through the BoredomFrom the Leveling Up Podcast: Ryan BlairQuest: Build Good HabitsLevel 15 (Final Level): Playing the Game of LifeNo Skipping LevelsTake It to the Next LevelDon't Ever Stop Collecting Power-Upsat Your LevelACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKEDWhere to Go NextTomb of Knowledge
