This Millionaire’s Rule About Books is Guaranteed to Improve Your Skills
Education is expensive, but knowledge is free.
You can get an education at a top-tier university, but it’ll cost you an arm, a leg, your firstborn child, and your soul.
If you can’t swing that, don’t worry. You can find everything you need to know on the internet.
The internet has everything: Free courses from Yale (without the diploma, natch…), the entirety of human knowledge, and hallucinating AI trying to compile it for you based on your lazy prompts.
In a word, overwhelming.
So, instead of drinking from the firehose of the internet, may I recommend books instead?
Enter: Tough Love Indian Finance Guru
Ramit Sethi is a badass millionaire.
You might now know him from his Netflix show, How To Get Rich, but he’s been a mentor of mine for years.
I took his Zero to Launch program over a decade ago, and it was the best $2,388 I have ever spent.
To this day, I continue to take his courses and apply what I learn. Just a few months ago, I purchased two of his programs to sharpen a few skills that I felt were lacking.
So, I can safely say that he’s been an invaluable resource for building Audio Issues in the last 10+ years.
But I think everyone should know his one simple rule about books
Ramit’s Book-Buying Rule
One of my all-time favorite “Ramit Rules” is his Book-Buying Rule.
“Ramit’s Book-Buying Rule: If you’re even considering buying a book, JUST BUY IT.”
It’s simple, but worth obsessing over as much as it ISN’T worth obsessing over whether to buy that book or not.
Books are so cheap that debating buying one is simply a waste of time.
Like Ramit says, “Even 1 idea makes it worth it.”
Either Way Helps
Sure, there are a lot of books to choose from, but if you’re eyeing a book you think will help you, buying it is a no-brainer.
It’ll either help or it won’t.
Either way, you’ve taken action and done something to help you get further.
Wondering if something will help, will get you nowhere.
Even if it doesn’t help you that much, you’re only out a few dollars.
And if you’re a particularly frugal penny-pincher, you can probably return it.
But if it ends up helping you, the upside is worth 100% of the purchase price of a book.
Pay $10 to Save Thousands
When you buy a non-fiction book, you’re buying the author’s years of experience to bypass their learning curve so you can get results faster.
That same author probably charges thousands of dollars for their mentorship. And if they teach at a university, a single course from them will cost you the same. Worrying about a few bucks when the shortcuts are worth thousands of dollars seems silly to me.
I follow this rule religiously because I know just how valuable a good book can be, and I think you should too.
Audio Skills Without Audio School
So whenever prospective students ask me questions about Step By Step Mixing, it’s hard for me not to go on a rant about Ramit’s rule.
I get it. You don’t want to waste your time. You want to know:
- Does it work for my genre?
- Does it help if I’m using [Some specific software or hardware]
- Does it cover the use of this rare scenario that rarely pops up?
Yes, yes, and yes. Emphatically.
Why?
Because if you’re mixing music, you’ll need to know how to use EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and saturation.
And that’s what my book teaches you. It’s gender-agnostic and doesn’t care about software because it teaches you the evergreen process for transforming your rough recordings into finished, release-worthy records.
And as you may have predicted, this is my roundabout way of saying that if you haven’t read Step By Step Mixing yet, what are you waiting for?
(And if you’re one of the 40,000+ readers who have used it to instantly improve their mixes, THANK YOU for all the reviews you’ve left for me. 1,000+ reviews is a huge deal for me, and I couldn’t have done it without you).
So, if you’re still struggling to use EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and saturation to make better mixes, use Ramit’s Book-Buying Rule and crack it open right now:
Keeping Track
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