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How Millionaires Think: Using the Knowledge in Books

Avil Beckford
5 min readNov 16, 2024
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Recently, I watched a video Dan Henry produced about four books he read that made him over 30 million dollars. I had read two of the four books and didn’t make millions of dollars. I’m excellent at applying ideas from the books I read. However, I think the issue is that my thinking and actions may not be at the level of a millionaire. This is something I’ll be working on.

In the YouTube video, “These 4 Books Made Me a Millionaire. You’ve Never Heard Of Them,” here are the books Dan Henry mentions.

  1. Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton and John Huey
  2. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
  3. Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact by Phil M Jones
  4. Object Lessons for a Year (Object Lesson Series): 52 Talks for the Children’s Sermon Time by David J. Claassen

I read Sam Walton: Made in America and Exactly What to Say years ago. This tells me I read books that are off the beaten path. However, I need to study how…

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Avil Beckford
Avil Beckford

Written by Avil Beckford

Founder, The Invisible Mentor & Art of Learning: https://bit.ly/32bK3k2 Interviewer | Book-a-holic | Reimagining what it means to read nonfiction books

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