Burn the Boats

*A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!* In this gripping rags-to-riches instant classic—a must-read for starting your own business—Matt Higgins provides the blueprint he used to go from a desperate sixteen-year-old high school dropout caring for his sick mother in Queens New York to a shark on Shark Tank and the faculty of Harvard Business School. Told with raw emotion and radical transparency Higgins writes the definitive tome on the oldest life hack in history: burn the boats.  From Sun Tzu to Julius Caesar the ancient Israelites to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky there’s a bold and highly effective tactic seen throughout history—when leaders want to motivate their troops for success they destroy all opportunities for retreat and fully commit to the mission. They burn their boats; it’s win or perish and the clarity of sheer desperation propels them to