The Hacker Mindset: A 5-Step Methodology for Cracking the System and Achieving Your Dreams

When boy genius Garrett Gee started working for the federal government at age fifteen, he figured fame and fortune were only a stone's throw away. Despite impressive credentials and enormous potential in the world of computer hacking, Gee found himself years later as just another salaried employee. He soon realized that though he was a hacker at work, he was a slacker when it came to leading his own life. But as soon as he applied his meticulous hacker mindset to his lifestyle, his life was forever changed--and the successes rolled in quickly.

Those who feel unfulfilled and stuck in the system, unable to realize their dreams as their careers merely bump along, can use this same hacker mindset in any situation or industry to overcome obstacles and identify the quickest path to true success--a success they define for themselves.

Drawing on decades of experience in cybersecurity, Gee outlines our innate hacker abilities in the face of society's best efforts to brainwash us to be slackers, and he offers readers practical advice alongside the six principles of the hacker mindset

• Being on the offense
• Reverse engineering
• Risk-Based Decisioning
• Living off the land
• Social engineering
• Pivoting