Eric Barker is a writer. He’s the author of the Wall Street Journal best-seller Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong. The book is based on his weekly newsletter and blog, Barking Up the Wrong Tree, which has over 500,000 subscribers. Barker is also a speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the US Military Central Command, and the Olympic Training Center. His latest book, Plays Well with Others, releases in May 2022. Barker’s work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Financial Times. He is a former Hollywood screenwriter, having worked on projects for Walt Disney Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, and Revolution Studios.
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