Strive - How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success

Zusatztext "A fascinating read for your summer holiday" - PQ Magazine (June 2018)"I would recommend this book to anyone who feels in a rut or at an impasse in their lives. It could be the kick-start you need to fulfill your goals and accomplish the things you may have thought are out of your reach." - Financial Adviser (August 2018) Informationen zum Autor Scott Amyx grew up an impoverished immigrant who was frequently told he would amount to nothing. Today he is an internationally recognized thought leader, speaker, and author on the Internet of Things and emerging technologies. He received the Cloud & DevOps World 2016 Award for Most Innovative and was voted Top Global IoT Influencer & Expert by Inc . magazine. He also was named Top IoT Authority by the Internet of Things Institute, and Speaking.com's Top 10 Global Speakers. In addition, Scott has been nominated to the World Economic Forum as a committee member for the Future of the Internet and nominated by global luminaries for TED Talk. Klappentext Has success eluded you, no matter how hard you try?Are you frustrated by trying to achieve your dreams by copying others? Internationally-acclaimed speaker and founder of the cutting-edge venture capital Amyx Ventures, Scott Amyx reveals how you can attain real success in your life, your way. His theory of Strive is a challenge to the conventional wisdom that has held so many people back from achieving their goals and enjoying lasting happiness. Scott rose from obscure poverty to globe-trotting success, and he invites you to share in his journey by adopting a new mindset towards your personal challenges: embrace them. Scott shows you how through stories of the most unlikely individuals who embraced difficult personal change to become outrageously successful. He helps you take stock of your own habits and practices to identify how your routine and misconceptions are holding you back. Fascinating insights from throughout history up through today's cutting-edge research show how embracing discomfort fuels lasting success.Shape your life in new, exciting ways. You can have control over your career, your outlook, your actions, and your priorities. This book helps you get a fresh start to begin building the successful life you want.* Discover what really drives success---and how conventional wisdom is wrong* Clearly identify your own personal challenges---and how to overcome them* Delve into the latest research on high performance to create a better you* Learn how high-achievers approach challenge, change, and successStrive is an unconventional approach to attaining your dreams because it takes what makes you unique and turns it to your advantage. Have you been duped by common myths of success? Are you disappointed by the constant struggle in life? Scott reveals how only you have the power to change your trajectory. Strive is your handbook for getting comfortable with discomfort, embracing and enjoying new challenges, and achieving real, lasting success. Zusammenfassung Has success eluded you! no matter how hard you try?Are you frustrated by trying to achieve your dreams by copying others? Internationally-acclaimed speaker and founder of the cutting-edge venture capital Amyx Ventures! Scott Amyx reveals how you can attain real success in your life! your way. His theory of Strive is a challenge to the conventional wisdom that has held so many people back from achieving their goals and enjoying lasting happiness. Scott rose from obscure poverty to globe-trotting success! and he invites you to share in his journey by adopting a new mindset towards your personal challenges: embrace them. Scott shows you how through stories of the most unlikely individuals who embraced difficult personal change to become outrageously successful. He helps you take stock of your own habits and practices to identify how your routine and misconceptions are holding you back. Fascina...

List of contents

Introduction ix
 
Winning at Life
 
1 Strive 1
 
Popular Beliefs About Success Are Profoundly Wrong Strive for Real, Lasting Success
 
2 Are You Passionate Enough? 13
 
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
 
3 Practice and Opportunity 33
 
The Practice of Practice
 
Youth Sports: Gateway to Success?
 
Unequal Success Among the Equally Qualified
 
Unequal Opportunity Versus You
 
Brazil: Rising Above Race and Class
 
Rising Above
 
4 Are You Special? 51
 
The Idea That Only Exceptional People Become
 
Successful Is Wrong
 
Flight: Doing It "Wright"
 
Power, Money, and Failure
 
The Power of Being Nobody Special
 
You Can Achieve Greatness, Regardless of Who You Are
 
5 The Secret Things 69
 
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
 
The Real Hidden Advantage
 
6 Disrupt Yourself 87
 
Use Self-Disruption to Attain Success
 
Disrupting the Body: Building Muscle
 
Disrupting the Individual
 
Shooting for the Stars
 
The Power of O
 
Reinventing Your Business
 
Disrupting Your Nation
 
Starting Successfully
 
7 Abandoning Your Comfort Zone 109
 
Risk It
 
Comfort Zone Versus Twilight Zone
 
Risk-Taking Impacts the World
 
Journey to America: In Search of Religious
 
Freedom
 
Risky Business
 
Amazon
 
Personal Risk, Incredible Growth
 
Into the Light
 
8 When the Going Gets Tough 127
 
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
 
Passion Play
 
9 Verify and Magnify Your Success 145
 
Periodically Check to See If You Are Meeting
 
Goals and Stretching Yourself to Achieve Success
 
Verify
 
Personal Growth
 
Quantification of Outcomes
 
Are You Coasting?
 
Magnify Your Success
 
The Magnifier
 
The Platform Effect
 
Network Effects
 
Now What?
 
10 Enhance Yourself 163
 
Success Without Self-Care Is Failure
 
Hacking the Body--By Any Means?
 
Biohacking
 
Future You
 
Busy = Better?
 
Good Health--Do You Measure Up?
 
Boost Your Brainpower
 
Stress, Rest, and Your Brain
 
Meditation Can Rewire Your Brain--For Good
 
Some Final Words
 
Epilogue 185
 
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
 
Striving Together
 
Index 20

Report

"A fascinating read for your summer holiday" - PQ Magazine (June 2018)
 

"I would recommend this book to anyone who feels in a rut or at an impasse in their lives. It could be the kick-start you need to fulfill your goals and accomplish the things you may have thought are out of your reach." - Financial Adviser (August 2018)

Product details

• Authors: Scott Amyx
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781119387305
• ISBN: 978-1-119-38730-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Ratgeber Wirtschaft, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Business Self-Help, Wirtschaft /Ratgeber, Spezialthemen Wirtschaft u. Management, Business & Management Special Topics