Ryan DeissCo-Founder & CEO, The Scalable Company

This Is What Your Favorite Business Book Say About You

29 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short, satirical monologue (YouTube) by Ryan Deiss that caricatures people based on their favorite business books. The speaker mocks archetypes — e.g., real-estate/network-marketing fans who glorify debt, productivity-obsessed people who still work 80-hour weeks, and people who buy books for display without reading them — delivering punchlines with playful star ratings and a brief reference to Ray Dalio. Tone is comedic/sardonic and the piece uses exaggerated ratings as a running gag.

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You're probably in real estate or you're in network marketing, or you just like telling people how much debt you have and bragging about how it's actually a good thing. The problem? You probably have the mindset of the rich dad, but you have the bank account of the poor dad. Two out of five stars. You're probably amazing at automating tasks. You're amazing to outsourcing to VAs in five different time zones. The problem? You're still working 80 hour weeks just on optimizing your Gmail filter. Still, it's a classic. Four out of five stars. All right, be honest. You haven't actually read this book. You heard some smart people on your favorite podcast talking about it, so you bought it and it looks cool on your bookshelf, but you haven't actually read it. And it's okay. I didn't either because it's long and it's depressing. But I watch a YouTube video that Dalio made. It sounds like we're pretty much screwed. 4.5 out of 5 stars. If you like this one, you're probably a genius and you're rich and you have above average intelligence and you're very, very, very good looking. 11 out of 5 stars.