Chris Heisel

The overall premise of this book seems to be that people overvalue results when they are judging people and situations. A person can misevaluate a risky investment and luck into success, even though there are 100 similar people who are equally skilled and bought a different penny stock and were ruined by it. That is true, and it is an important lesson. I fit it all into two sentences. Now that I have told you it there is no need for you to consume this arrogant dribble. The hypocrisy of the book is hilarious. The author complains constantly about how everyone more successful than him is really just lucky because their investment strategies happened to work...which of course is true for him, which is why he got rich. He extends this beyond the options trading world he knows into all aspects of business success. He believes all executives and successful business owners are simply lucky. He makes this mistake because he only understands risk assessment and can only see what he understands. If he had any real experience in in making a business succeed he would no that people make complex decisions where they weigh options and mitigate risk. With a little more real life experience he would also know that using flowery language in writing doesn't make you smarter. We could all do it. We choose not to because it is inefficient and annoying. It makes us sound self-important and obnoxious. I guess if you want a book about hypocrisy with some interesting references to Greek poetry this might be good for a chuckle. You will want to skim it though...it is too long to be simply a comedy read.