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Winner: Best Novella, American Writing Awards 2025 Winner: Literary Titan Gold Book Award 2025
Against the backdrop of an earthquake-ravaged Los Angeles, 'Get Rich Quick' follows one man's desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. Marlon, grappling with a personal tragedy, is enticed by a mysterious financial advisor…
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This book made me face my mindset around urgency and taking shortcuts.
I lost $10,000 in 2017 in crypto right after my father passed away, when I was in shock. I look back at how my emotions and the need to get rich quickly overrode logic. I now love the idea of getting rich quickly, not from likelihood or being practical, but from seeing it as humor. I saw how I can’t compress my learning curves without consequences. I learned a huge lesson in paying the $10K tuition for a lesson in security and diligence.
GRQ helped me reshape my…
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