David K. Tian has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Building a Wealthy Mindset.
The Hyphenated American
Summary
Asian Americans have often been described as the "model minority", a stereotype that unfairly characterizes a diverse group of people's experiences as one monolithic experience. In this book, I describe my own transformation from a self-hating Asian to one who takes pride in his background. It is my hope that listeners of this book will find it to be relatable.
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The Unpaid and Underappreciated Work Women Do Every Day
Summary
In this book, I share how I have applied teachings from my graduate school courses to my everyday life, particularly as they relate to gender relations. Society often expects women to do much of the household work in the domestic sphere, and yet that work is unrecognized, uncompensated, and underappreciated. This book offers a short analysis of the problem, and offers a more scholarly perspective of a pervasive issue.
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What the University of Chicago Doesn't Teach You
Summary
When I was in high school, I was under the naïve impression that going to a top college meant that everything in life would somehow magically work itself out for you. Boy, was I wrong. After spending countless hours cramming for the SAT and loading up on extra AP and IB classes, I was admitted to the University of Chicago and entered as a first-year student in fall 2010. While I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have attended such a renowned university, looking back, there are many important lessons that I didn’t learn while there. In this book, I have assembled a collection of essays that are related to education and learning in some way, although not always formal education and the essays are in no particular order. If you read every essay in this book, then I am confident you will learn at least one new bit of knowledge or wisdom that you can’t learn in a college classroom. I hope it will be an enjoyable and illuminating read for you.
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Building a Wealthy Mindset
Summary
At age 28, I achieved what I never thought I'd be able to do at a young age: I built a six-figure net worth and purchased two rental properties. This book is my way of sharing with you not only what I did right, but also what I got wrong, so that you don't make the same mistakes I did. You will learn about: Using arbitrage to make money on goods you didn't even create Using information asymmetry to your advantage (sometimes, the less the other person knows, the better Having credit card companies pay you to use their products Why the stock market is still the best vehicle to build and maintain long-term wealth Turning money-siphoning liabilities into revenue-generating assets And much more There are many people who struck it rich in their late 20s and early 30s, and I am by no means the most remarkable of them all. However, I was able to achieve all this despite heavy student loans from expensive universities such as the University of Chicago and Georgetown University dragging me down, all while living on a teacher's salary. I make no promises that this book will help you to achieve mega millions, but what I do promise is that by the end of the book, you will have at least one idea on how to increase your net worth in a creative way. Whether you are making six figures a year at a prestigious consulting firm, or working as an underpaid, minimum-wage worker, this book is for you!
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