Introduction

Welcome, and congratulations on being considered awesome enough to be allowed to read this book. There are millions of people who would love to read this book, but they don’t get to. Some of them have attempted to bribe me with cars and jewels and silks and the occasional herd of camels, but I have refused them all. You have to earn the right to read this book, which you have obviously done. So again, congratulations for being as awesome as you are.

However, despite the prestige that you’ve acquired simply by being allowed to look at these pages, I suppose it’s possible that you’d rather be golfing or digging a moat or manually inflating a hot air balloon or making cupcakes instead of reading and learning about how to become an excellent ...

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