When people think of World of Warcraft, they think of a socially awkward, acne-faced teenager with "no life." Confessions of a Teenage Gamer challenges those stereotypes and shows how a kid from a wealthy family with every opportunity at his fingertips ended up finding himself in a video game. Confessions of a Teenage Gamer is funny in its honest retellings of teenage puberty, witty in its commentary on rich suburban life, and thought provoking in a way that questions the meaning behind success and happiness. This true story draws parallels between sports, music, and video games—and shows how, at the core, they teach many of the same lessons. With a successful spine surgeon for a father, a music teacher for a mother, and a house full of driven, high-achieving siblings, Nicolas Cole's Confessions of a Teenage Gamer shows how far one boy will go to chase his dream of becoming a professional gamer.

Confessions of a Teenage Gamer (Who Am I, Really?)

Computers & Technology

Cole, Nicolas

Games & Strategy Guides

Nicolas Cole

What readers are saying: 
★ "Slow Down, Wake Up is a collection of poems that serve as little meditations in our very busy lives. Right now, as I am quarantined, I needed these messages of resiliency and of hope."\n★ "Absolutely love this collection of poetry. And just to tell you how good I thought this book was, I had to order my daughter a print version of this book as she is an aspiring author and poetry inspires her. She loves the book. So this book was inspiring and profound to both a middle-aged woman and a young college graduate. A must buy for sure."\n★ "What beautiful poetry, each poem is thought-provoking and true. You can use the poems as a meditation for the day or to lift your spirit. The poetry is very easy to read and the cover is both beautiful and soothing."\nThe #1 personal development writer on the internet with more than 75,000,000 views, Nicolas Cole, and clinical psychologist Dr. Matthew Jones, bring you a groundbreaking book of morning meditations.\nSlow Down, Wake Up, is a book of 150 poems intended to help you “wake up to the joy of you—and the world around you.” Stories, thought-provoking questions, quietly funny moments, and imagery that will change the way you meditate forever, each poem is intended to be read, contemplated, and treated as the beginning of a short 10-minute meditation. As the authors share in the book’s introduction, “These were poems we wrote during some of the busiest years of our lives.” Dr. Matthew Jones was completing his Doctorate program, and Nicolas Cole had just taken the leap from his 9-5 job in advertising, caught in a whirlwind of adventure building a multi-million dollar Thought Leadership Agency for CEOs, Silicon Valley founders, Grammy-winning musicians, Olympians, NYT best-selling authors, and more. Every poem in this book was written in a cab, on the train, in an airport, a hotel room, or a quiet moment between demands from the day.\nWhether you are an expert in zen meditations, or searching for meditations for beginners, Slow Down, Wake Up is a reminder for you to carry with you throughout your busy day. In a quiet moment, flip open to a page, and realize what you are reading was written in a moment no different than yours. This is an invitation to you to slow down, and remember who you truly are.

Slow Down, Wake Up: 150 Short Meditations For A More Present Life

Literature & Fiction

Jones, Dr. Matthew

Poetry

Letter To My Imagination: 212 Short Meditations To Help You Overcome Rejection, Discouragement, and Fear of FailureAnd Start Being More Creative

Self-Help

Creativity

What are the secrets to writing online? Why do some writers accumulate hundreds of thousands, even millions of views on their content-and others write and write, only to go unnoticed?Nicolas Cole, one of the most viral columnists on the internet with more than 100 million views on his writing, is pulling back the curtain. After becoming the #1 most-read writer on all of Quora in 2015, and a Top 10 contributing writer for Inc Magazine from 2016 to 2018, Cole went on to build a multi-million-dollar ghostwriting company publishing thousands of articles on the internet for more than 300 different Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, C-level executives, New York Times best-selling authors, Olympic athletes, Grammy-winning producers, and renowned industry leaders. How?By using his own personal toolkit of writing strategies, headline structures, formats, and proven styles, all of which were mastered over a 10-year period."This book contains everything I know about online writing," says Cole. "From going viral, to building a massive library of content that will continue to pay you dividends well into the future."In this book you will learn:- Why you should NOT start a blog-and where you should be writing online instead.- How to beat "the game" of internet publishing-and the 7 levels of success.- How "going viral" on social platforms works (and how to not give up in the process).- The Endless Idea Generator: How to never run out of things to write about.- The Perfect Post: How to write headlines people can't help but want to read.- How to create your own "Content Roadmap," and position yourself as an influential voice in your industry or niche.- How to turn proven online writing into longer, more valuable assets (books, ebooks, physical products, paid newsletters, companies, etc.).- And the 1 habit very single writer today needs to master in order to become successful.This book is the Ultimate Guide to writing in the digital age.

The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Top Writer and published author Nicolas Cole shares some of his popular and favorite Quora answers from 2015. Many of these answers went on to become huge hits amongst the Quora community, accumulating hundreds of thousands of views. Nicolas Cole has amassed well over 8,000,000 article views at the time of this book's publishing, and is best known on Quora for writing about personal growth and self development. His unique style blends these important lessons for readers with his own unique stories of persistence, overcoming challenge, and his own development as a person. Nicolas Cole's story is most often recognized for his beginning as one of the highest ranked World of Warcraft players in North America as a seventeen year old, while simultaneously living undiagnosed with Celiac Disease. He is also recognized for drastically transforming his body from being unhealthfully skinny and becoming a fitness model and bodybuilder.

Best Quora Answers of 2015: Quora Top Writer Nicolas Cole shares his most popular answers from 2015

Personal Transformation

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

★ Based on Nicolas Cole’s viral article with more than 1,000,000 views! ★Big changes don’t happen overnight.They happen day by day, little by little—until all of a sudden, you’ve arrived.Nicolas Cole, one of the most-read personal development writers on the internet with more than 100 million views on his work, reveals to readers why the secret to success isn’t about finding a shortcut—but building tiny habits that compound along the way. Part actionable advice, part vivid storytelling, 19 Tiny Habits is a quick read.Reflecting on the 19 tiny habits that have led to huge results in his own life, Cole credits these small daily actions as being the foundational elements of his successes in his late teens and 20s:"When I was 17 years old, I was one of the highest-ranked World of Warcraft players in North America, as well as one of the first bloggers in the emerging eSports industry with a viral blog.""At 22 years old, I discovered I'd been undiagnosed with Celiac Disease for the first 18 years of my life. I turned to bodybuilding to start over, find a sense of confidence, and turn my newfound boring diet of rice, chicken, and vegetables into an unfair advantage—putting on 70 pounds of muscle and transforming from a skinny, socially awkward teenager into a shredded fitness model.""By 24, I had graduated college with a degree in fiction writing and decided I wanted to start taking my writing more seriously. In less than 2 years, I became one of the most-read writers on the internet, the #1 writer on Quora (a platform with more than 200 million users), and one of Inc Magazine’s Top 10 contributing writers.""And by 28 years old, I had quit my 9-5 job as a copywriter and turned my love for writing into a ghostwriting business called Digital Press. In less than 18 months, Digital Press became a multi-million-dollar agency with 20+ full-time employees working with more than 300 different Silicon Valley investors, executives, NYT best-selling authors, Grammy-winning musicians, Olympic athletes, and more."In this book, readers will not only hear Cole's story first hand, but also learn for themselves:Habits for happinessHabits for successHabits to improve focus, discipline, persistence, and driveHabits to change yourself (for the better)Habits to redefine the way you see your life19 Tiny Habits That Lead To Huge Results will change the way you think about your life journey. Process over destination, mastery over achievement, Cole has found a way to turn relentless goal-setting into a way to know yourself better as a human being—achieving your goals, while being deeply fulfilled in the process.Here’s how.

19 Tiny Habits That Lead To Huge Results

Success

Ghostwriting is the single most lucrative way to monetize your talents as a writer. 
Over the past 6 years, Nicolas Cole has ghostwritten for more than 300 different industry leaders, C-Suite executives, founders of Silicon Valley startups, venture capitalists, and even Olympic athletes, Grammy-winning musicians, and New York Times bestselling authors. In 2017, Cole founded the first ghostwriting agency specializing in opinion articles online, and to date has ghostwritten more than 3,000 articles (under other people’s names). At its height, Cole’s ghostwriting agency, Digital Press, had more than 80 concurrent clients, employed over 20 writers & editors, and was generating several million dollars in annual revenue. 
And in The Art & Business of Ghostwriting, he explains exactly how he did it—so you can start making money as a Premium Ghostwriter, too. In this book you will learn: The differences between Freelance Writing & Ghostwriting (and why you should never call yourself a “freelance writer” again). Why ghostwriting is much more lucrative (and why it’s the fastest path to earning 6-figures for yourself as a writer). How to “niche down” as a ghostwriter, create your own category, and differentiate yourself from any and all competition. The 5 different archetypes of Client Voices—and how you can create templates to streamline your efficiencies. How to ghostwriting anything: articles, newsletters, Tweets, LinkedIn posts, Medium articles, Quora answers, blog posts, startup fundraising decks, and more. The root fears of pricing, and why so many freelancers struggle to charge more and attract high-quality clients. A roadmap to scaling your 1-person ghostwriting agency. And how to easily find ghostwriting clients. 
“Ghostwriting paid me to learn, paid me to practice my craft, and paid me to build a billion-dollar network for myself," says Cole. "Ghostwriting changed my life—and it can change yours, too." 
So, what are you waiting for? 
There has never been a better time in history to earn a living as a writer. 
All you have to do is call yourself a Premium Ghostwriter.

The Art & Business Of Ghostwriting: How To Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing For Other People Online

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Different Publishing

Are you ready to master the most powerful business skill on the planet? 
Over the past 20 years, Category Creation and Category Design has gone from being a little-known "positioning" secret from advertising legends like David Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, Al Ries, Jack Trout, Gary Halbert, and more, to now becoming the single most in-demand skill among business leaders, Fortune 500 executives, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, marketers, and even the next generation of digital creators. 
Why? 
Because the business world is starting to wake up and realize branding comes second to category design. 
No meaningful category? 
No meaningful company. 
Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, and Nicolas Cole—otherwise known as the Category Pirates—are the leaders of Category Creation and Category Design thinking in the digital age. And in The Category Design Toolkit, they walk readers through 15 absolutely mind-altering frameworks for how to see business, life, and the way people organize information into "categories" in their minds. Are you a B2B enterprise software company? Do you sell plastic widgets on Amazon? Maybe you're a small business owner, a biotech entrepreneur, or a YouTuber. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. In order to have a meaningful impact on the world, in order to become known for a niche you own, and in order to dominate your industry in a way that separates you from any and all competition, you must create your own category. 
Which means you must learn the skill of category design. In this book, you will learn: 
✓ How to objectively measure whether you and your company are creating a new category versus competing in someone else's (existing) category.\n✓ How to prosecute The Magic Triangle: product design, company/business model design, and category design.\n✓ How to find your Superconsumers, and leverage Superconsumer data to discover new potential categories.\n✓ How to engineer a category breakthrough (even if you think your industry is "too saturated" or "all the good ideas are taken").\n✓ The importance of being a missionary versus a mercenary—and why mercenary entrepreneurs and executives unknowingly compete over 24% of the market.\n✓ The 8 category differentiation levers, and all the ways you can create a defensible moat around your business.\n✓ How you can apply category creation & category design principles even as a small "e" entrepreneur or local business owner.\n✓ How category design can also be applied to your career (and why you should aim to become known for a niche you own, not "build a personal brand).\n✓ What happens if you neglect your category—and how to rage category violence industry leaders who make this mistake.\n✓ How to write a legendary S-1 and raise hundreds of millions (even billions) of dollars in your company's IPO by making a case for the future growth of your category (which you created & designed).\n✓ Why "Blue Ocean" isn't what you are looking for. And if you want to truly create a category of your own, you should execute a No Ocean Strategy.\nThis book is everything you need to know in order to learn, practice, and master the skill of category design.

The Category Design Toolkit: Beyond Marketing: 15 Frameworks For Creating & Dominating Your Niche

Pirates, Category

Lochhead, Christopher

Yoon, Eddie

Finance

Category Pirates

A mediocre Category Designer will beat a world-class marketer every day of the week. 
The reason is because all marketing sits within a context. "He or she who frames the problem owns the solution." Without this context—without a category—your marketing becomes nothing but screaming, shouting, and pitching customers with deals, discounts, and other short-term tactics in the hopes of landing a sale. But are you building your business? More importantly, are any of these efforts going to compound over time and establish you as the category leader? 
Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, and Nicolas Cole—otherwise known as the Category Pirates—are the authorities of Category Creation and Category Design in the digital world. Pirate Christopher is a 3x CMO, Pirate Eddie has driven over $8 billion in annual sales generated for companies, and Pirate Cole is a serial writing entrepreneur, and together they have put together A Marketer's Guide To Category Design. In this book, you will learn: 
✓ There is a new category of "human" in today's world: Native Digitals (people under the age of 35 years old). And if you are a Native Analog, then all of your marketing efforts need to sit in this new context called, "For Native Digitals, the digital world is the real world." 
✓ Why so many marketers, entrepreneurs, executives, and even investors fall for The Big Brand Lie (falsely believing it's the company's "brand" customers care about). 
✓ The "Better" Trap: why comparison marketing never works, and causes comparison-focused companies to fight over only 24% of the market. 
✓ How to successfully execute a Dam The Demand strategy, stopping customers in the "old" world and moving them over to the new & different future you are creating. 
✓ How to launch a Lightning Strike Strategy—and why "Peanut Butter Marketing" (spread out evenly throughout the year) is a guaranteed path to irrelevancy. 
✓ What most marketers don't understand about Black Friday, and why discount campaigns and coupons are a bad way to grow your business. 
✓ And finally, the difference between content marketing that captures people's attention and makes a difference versus content that goes nowhere. 
If you are a marketer, or an entrepreneur/executive who wants to approach marketing through a category lens, this is the book for you.

A Marketer's Guide To Category Design: How To Escape The "Better" Trap, Dam The Demand, And Launch A Lightning Strike Strategy

Management & Leadership

To read this “mini-book,” as well as our entire archive of writing on Category Design, subscribe to Category Pirates here: 
categorypirates.substack.com 
If you can save and invest just $30,000 as a teenager, you’re set for life (retirement is taken care of). 
So why wait to start a business until college, or after college, or after your first job, when the world is willing to pay big bucks for your Native Digital expertise today? There has never been a better time to start a (crazy profitable) business as a teenager than right now. And guess what? Making money doesn’t require a college degree anymore. Just an Internet connection and a radical idea (which this mini-book is full of). 
The Category Pirates—Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, and Nicolas Cole—have created their most forward-leaning mini-book yet, this time speaking directly to teenagers itching to start their entrepreneurial careers. This mini-book is the ultimate guide to starting a business as a Native Digital in a world full of Native Analogs who have no idea how to perform even the most basic digital tasks—like setup their Peloton, sync their Apple Watch, or accept payments via Venmo. In this mini-book, you will learn: 18 actionable and radical ideas to start making money immediately as a teenager. Why you shouldn’t wait for permission to start your first business. How to think about monetizing your unique Native Digital knowledge. Turning other people’s problems into a solution (and your next business). And so much more. 
Short, straight to the point, and a lifetime’s worth of business ideas, if you are a teenage entrepreneur (or a parent who wants to encourage their child’s entrepreneurial tendencies) then this mini-book is the place to start.

How To Build Your First (Crazy Profitable) Business As A Teenager: 18 Radical Ideas For 18-Year-Old Entrepreneurs And Younger

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