A new book from Paul H. Graham
You built the wealth.
Now find the joy it was supposed to buy.
The Investor's Guide to Joy is Paul's next book — six stages for aligning your wealth, your work, and your people with who you actually are. Join the waitlist for early chapters and the release date.
From the author of From Startup to Standout (co-written with Shark Tank's Kevin Harrington) and the creator of the CEO57 protocol.
Paul wrote this for one of three people.
From the book's introduction, see which one sounds like you.
You've "made it."
The bills don't get looked at anymore, just glanced over. You can close a deal in an afternoon that takes other people a year. But more money hasn't solved anything, and if you're honest, you know it.
You're successful, but anxious.
Uncertain it'll all hold. You lean on outcomes more than connection, and on other people's approval more than you'd ever admit and it leaves you feeling frustrated and trapped.
You're impatient.
You've made the climb, but lately you're burnt out. You want to already be at the destination and most days, you'd take the easy button if someone handed it to you.
Written by someone who chased the number and got there.
Paul co-founded and exited a software company in 2019, 7x'd his net worth, and has advised Fortune 500 fintech teams and family offices. He's driven over $162 million in enterprise value and has sat in rooms with billionaires and nine-figure founders. He also spent years finding out that none of it, by itself, produced the thing he actually wanted: joy.
The Investor's Guide to Joy is the book he wishes someone had handed him during those years, part memoir, part framework, built from his own story and the patterns he's seen in over 200 people he's personally coached.
Six stages, in the order the book walks them.
Not a finance book with a chapter on mindset bolted on, a framework for aligning both, in this order.
Belief
The best version of yourself, why the truth you can accept determines the opportunity you can hold.
Skills & plans
The 57-day protocol, and what actually separates six-, seven-, and eight-figure earners (it isn't tactics).
Process
The Law of Linearity and the Law of Liberty, and why optimizing for impact outperforms optimizing for income.
People
Why the five people around you shape your joy at least as much as they shape your income.
Escaping the money trap
Recognizing when money has you instead of the other way around, and using purpose to get out.
Impact
The ripple effect, building a legacy, and a family, that doesn't have to heal from how you built your wealth.
"Joy is not a destination or an action. It is a way of being." — Paul H. Graham, The Investor's Guide to Joy
Get the book before anyone else does.
Join the waitlist and you'll get:
- A free early chapter, before the book is available anywhere
- First access to the release date and launch pricing
- Occasional notes from Paul as the book comes together