The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People is written by James Altucher, a successful entrepreneur, investor, chess master and prolific writer of 18 books. A thoughtful essay that teaches its readers to embrace mediocre qualities, Altucher explains that life can be a sentence of failures, punctuated only by the briefest of successes. This book helps you overcome any particular failure, not to repeat the same mistakes, and learn how to deal with the psychology of failure. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People also gives you the advice that if you want to get rich, sell your company, have time for your hobbies, and raise a halfway decent family.