The Power of Ask: Ask for What You Want, Get What You Want

by James Altucher, Claudia Azula Altucher

     Ask for what you want, get what you want. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But as James Altucher and Claudia Azula Altucher showed us in their inspiring and widely acclaimed The Power of No, sometimes it’s the smallest words and the simplest steps that can make the biggest difference in our lives. In this new guide, they delve into the wisdom, joy, and practical benefits you can uncover when you learn to tap the power of “ask” that’s already within you.
     With great compassion and irresistible, occasionally oddball humor, The Power of Ask guides us through all the levels of asking in our lives, from the most elemental to the most elevated, in areas from career to spirituality to self-care. Topics include:
 
• how to ask for money
• how to ask for a better position
• how to ask a man or a woman to be your life and love partner
• how to ask someone you admire to mentor you, in a way that will get them to say yes
• what it really means to ask for forgiveness
• how to ask in prayer while keeping your feet on the ground
• how to step up to the “big asks”: asking for courage, for happiness, for a purpose in life, and even for enlightenment, whatever form that takes
 
      Throughout the program, you’ll get exercises for building your asking aptitude (such as asking for a 10 percent discount in a coffee shop for no reason at all) and stories drawn from James and Claudia’s own experience as well as that of their readers and students. It’s filled with immediately applicable, richly illuminating wisdom about what it takes to live an authentic and abundant life in a demanding world. Turns out all you have to do is ask well.

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First published August 18, 2015

About the author

James Altucher is a writer, successful entrepreneur, chess master, and investor.

He has founded over 20 companies and sold some of them for large exits. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, angel funds, and currently sits on the boards of many companies.

He has written and been profiled in most major national media publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, and Business Week.

His blog, which began by detailing Altucher's precipitous fall from wealth and success to absolute rock bottom and then back to wealth, has attracted more than 10 million readers since its launch in 2010, and in 2011 inspired a comic book.