Secret ten

How to play your way to the rich life

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, American author and speaker

In the previous chapter we saw how to scale up what you offer to get paid to play full time. So is it possible to get rich from playing? This chapter will help you work out what rich actually means to you and get you a little closer to it sooner than you might think.

There are plenty of players that have turned their experimental projects into million-selling businesses. Derek Sivers turned fiddling around on the web to sell his own music into a business that made over $100 million in sales. Leslie Scott turned a game using her baby brother’s wooden ...

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