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 "site": "Stolen From Books",
 "updated": "2026-11-15",
 "license": "Free to read and quote with a link and the book's name.",
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  {
   "n": 5,
   "title": "A crowd heard how to get rich. Then they did this.",
   "book": "The Way to Wealth",
   "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
   "year": 1758,
   "idea": "Knowing how to get rich is easy, but doing it is the hard half: small, everyday spending leaks your money away like a hole in a ship.",
   "moves": [
    "Write down every small buy",
    "Find your biggest leak.",
    "Plug it."
   ],
   "url": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/the-speech-nobody-followed",
   "video": "https://api.stolenfrombooks.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/franklin-auction.mp4",
   "poster": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/media/franklin-auction.jpg",
   "published": "2026-11-15"
  },
  {
   "n": 4,
   "title": "5 bricks pulled a crowd of 500 (Barnum's trick)",
   "book": "Struggles and Triumphs",
   "author": "P. T. Barnum",
   "year": 1869,
   "idea": "People cannot walk past a mystery. Give them something odd to wonder about, and they will follow it, and even pay, to find the answer.",
   "moves": [
    "Cover one jar",
    "Write on it (“Guess what's inside?”)",
    "Count who asks"
   ],
   "url": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/five-bricks-five-hundred-people",
   "video": "https://api.stolenfrombooks.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/brick-man.mp4",
   "poster": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/media/brick-man.jpg",
   "published": "2026-11-15"
  },
  {
   "n": 3,
   "title": "Put all your eggs in one basket (a steel king's rule)",
   "book": "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie",
   "author": "Andrew Carnegie",
   "year": 1920,
   "idea": "Don't spread yourself over many things. Put your best effort into one thing you control, keep a close eye on it, and keep making it better.",
   "moves": [
    "Pick ONE project.",
    "Pause the rest. (for 7 days)",
    "Fix one thing in it."
   ],
   "url": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/all-your-eggs-in-one-basket",
   "video": "https://api.stolenfrombooks.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/one-basket.mp4",
   "poster": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/media/one-basket.jpg",
   "published": "2026-11-15"
  },
  {
   "n": 2,
   "title": "The tiny leak that empties your piggy bank",
   "book": "The Way to Wealth",
   "author": "Benjamin Franklin",
   "year": 1758,
   "idea": "Earning money is only half the game: tiny, 'it's nothing' purchases quietly drain everything, so keeping money matters as much as making it.",
   "moves": [
    "Write down every small thing you buy. (For 7 days. Even the $1 ones.)",
    "Find your biggest leak. (Then plug it.)"
   ],
   "url": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/the-hole-in-your-piggy-bank",
   "video": "https://api.stolenfrombooks.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/small-leaks.mp4",
   "poster": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/media/small-leaks.jpg",
   "published": "2026-11-15"
  },
  {
   "n": 1,
   "title": "Your mom is lying about your business idea",
   "book": "The Mom Test",
   "author": "Rob Fitzpatrick",
   "year": 2013,
   "idea": "People lie to be nice, so ask about what they did in the past, not about your idea.",
   "moves": [
    "Ask 3 people (“When did this last happen to you? What did you do?”)",
    "Then just listen."
   ],
   "url": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/your-mom-is-lying-to-you",
   "video": "https://api.stolenfrombooks.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/mom-test.mp4",
   "poster": "https://stolenfrombooks.com/media/mom-test.jpg",
   "published": "2026-11-15"
  }
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}