Strive : How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Winning at Life -- Chapter 1: Strive -- Popular Beliefs About Success Are Profoundly Wrong -- Strive for Real, Lasting Success -- (S)-Set a Goal -- (T)-Think About How to Get There and Plan for Success -- (R)-Risk: Embrace It, Expect It -- (I)-Insights, or What Did You Learn from Your Uncomfortable Change or Risk? -- (V)-Verify Progress -- (E)-Enhance Yourself, Mentally and Physically, with Safe Biohacking -- This Guidebook Can Help You Strive -- Chapter 2: Are You Passionate Enough? -- Passion Plays -- Passion and Success: What Is the Connection? -- Passion Without Innate Abilities -- Passion Without Knowledge and Experience -- Passion Without Economic Gain -- Artistic Success: Get the Picture? -- Famous by 30 or Bust! -- Invest Your Money for Art School-Get an MBA -- Chapter 3: Practice and Opportunity -- The Practice of Practice -- So What Happened? -- Youth Sports: Gateway to Success? -- Unequal Success Among the Equally Qualified -- Unequal Opportunity Versus You -- Brazil: Rising Above Race and Class -- Rising Above -- Chapter 4: Are You Special? -- The Idea That Only Exceptional People Become Successful Is Wrong -- Flight (or Lack Thereof) -- Flight: Doing It "Wright -- Power, Money, and Failure -- The Power of Being Nobody Special -- You Can Achieve Greatness, Regardless of Who You Are -- Chapter 5: The Secret Things -- The Idea That Successful People Have Hidden Advantages Is a Lie -- Lucky in Life? -- That Sinking Feeling -- Lucky Lottery Winners? -- The Impact of External Circumstances -- Many Advantages, No Success -- Ursula Burns, Risk Taker -- They Would Be Wrong -- And Then It Happened -- She Assumed Her Career Was Over -- The Real Hidden Advantage -- Chapter 6: Disrupt Yourself -- Use Self-Disruption to Attain Success -- Disrupting the Body: Building Muscle.

Disrupting the Individual -- Shooting for the Stars -- The Power of O -- Oprah -- Reinventing Your Business -- Disrupting Your Nation -- Starting Successfully -- (S)-Set a Goal -- (T)-Think About How to Get There and Plan for Success -- Chapter 7: Abandoning Your Comfort Zone -- Risk It -- Comfort Zone Versus Twilight Zone -- Risk-Taking Impacts the World -- Journey to America: In Search of Religious Freedom -- Risky Business -- The L'Amyx Tea Bar -- That's Right, My Sister-in-Law -- Amazon -- Personal Risk, Incredible Growth -- Into the Light -- No One Raised a Hand -- Chapter 8: When the Going Gets Tough -- Pairing Risk with Perseverance Is Necessary for Your Ultimate Success -- Staying the Path, Eyes Ahead -- Insights Help You Reassess Your Goals -- The Blind Man Riding on the Back of a Blind Tiger -- A Cinderella Story -- Insights Help You Persevere -- Taking the Long View and the Long Road -- Coming from Nowhere, Going Somewhere -- Fail Again and Again -- Into the Heart of Darkness -- Then Everything Changed -- Passion Play -- Chapter 9: Verify and Magnify Your Success -- Periodically Check to See If You Are Meeting Goals and Stretching Yourself to Achieve Success -- Verify -- Personal Growth -- But Then the Impossible Happened -- Quantification of Outcomes -- Are You Coasting? -- Magnify Your Success -- The Magnifier -- Personal Branding -- Four Thousand Did -- The Platform Effect -- The Platform -- Network Effects -- Now What? -- Chapter 10: Enhance Yourself -- Success Without Self-Care Is Failure -- Bloated -- Cold Turkey -- Hacking the Body-By Any Means? -- Biohacking -- Or Maybe Not -- Future You -- Perhaps -- Busy = Better? -- Good Health-Do You Measure Up? -- Boost Your Brainpower -- Stress, Rest, and Your Brain -- It Cost Her Dearly -- Meditation Can Rewire Your Brain-For Good -- Some Final Words -- Epilogue.

Your Personal Journey to Success Will Be Entirely Unique -- Should Success Be Measured Only by Money, Status, and Power? -- The Ethics of Strive -- Striving, for Life -- Building Relationships -- Family Matters -- Becoming a Pillar (of Your Community) -- Going Pro -- Personal Growth -- That's Right-Speak Out -- Striving Together -- Index -- EULA.

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