SocOfAutism wrote:
Most professionals are not writers. I ghostwrote for a physician for many years. Typically what is done is that a person records their thoughts, they read it back over and okay it afterward. The writer who helps them gets credit and no one publishes things without the main authors approval. I never understand this “he didn’t write them alone so they don’t count” argument.
His books are full of positive thinking and examples of turning negative situations into positive ones. The time period I’m currently reading from is 2004, so there were not many negative situations.
One of the most illuminating points-I forget if it was in this book or the one or two before-is that he doesn’t do anything without finding out everything possible about it first. I believe he made a serious testing of the waters in 2000 about a presidential run and has spent the entire time since then researching and preparing. I think The Apprentice was some kind of media ploy, perhaps to build up a WWE-like persona. I think his real personality is what we see in the old Oprah interview from the 1980s.
I have found that the titles of the books are meaningless. They have very little to do with the book content. The Art of the Comeback was more about his feelings (you don’t get much of that in general). How to Get Rich and Think Like a Billionaire are largely about things like how to not be a douchebag and look like a champ instead and what he does day to day. In his early books he straight out says that he finds lots of people interesting, even people whose behavior he finds abhorrent. In the later books, he just says everyone is fantastic. He name drops constantly, which is useful. Like, it’s no revelation that he has Saudi ties. They’ve been buying things back and forth for 30 years. Yet he said very plainly in...The Art of the Comeback I believe, that he found the Trump Princess (worlds biggest yacht) that he bought from them creepy and he personally did not use it. He just wanted to say he had it. I mean, I don’t like my neighbor across the street. If I were able, I would totally buy the land around him just to irritate him. I understand many of these stories in these books-I would do the same if I was rich.
I just ordered the next four books. I’m about to start a book of quotes and then the one after is about golf. :/ I’m not into golf, but I made a commitment to myself to read them all.
Oh yeah, I'm sure Trump's books are full of wisdom. Trump is always saying such wise and knowing things, so if it's just his thoughts written down then it should be full of really interesting and illuminating material.