Strive

<p>Introduction ix</p>
<p>Winning at Life</p>
<p>1 Strive 1</p>
<p>Popular Beliefs About Success Are Profoundly Wrong Strive for Real, Lasting Success</p>
<p>2 Are You Passionate Enough? 13</p>
<p>Passion Plays</p>
<p>Passion and Success: What Is the Connection?</p>
<p>Passion Without Innate Abilities</p>
<p>Passion Without Knowledge and Experience</p>
<p>Passion Without Economic Gain</p>
<p>Artistic Success: Get the Picture?</p>
<p>Famous by 30 or Bust!</p>
<p>Invest Your Money for Art School Get an MBA</p>
<p>3 Practice and Opportunity 33</p>
<p>The Practice of Practice</p>
<p>Youth Sports: Gateway to Success?</p>
<p>Unequal Success Among the Equally Qualified</p>
<p>Unequal Opportunity Versus You</p>
<p>Brazil: Rising Above Race and Class</p>
<p>Rising Above</p>
<p>4 Are You Special? 51</p>
<p>The Idea That Only Exceptional People Become</p>
<p>Successful Is Wrong</p>
<p>Flight: Doing It Wright </p>
<p>Power, Money, and Failure</p>
<p>The Power of Being Nobody Special</p>
<p>You Can Achieve Greatness, Regardless of Who You Are</p>
<p>5 The Secret Things 69</p>
<p>The Idea That Successful People Have Hidden Advantages Is a Lie</p>
<p>Lucky in Life?</p>
<p>That Sinking Feeling</p>
<p>Lucky Lottery Winners?</p>
<p>The Impact of External Circumstances</p>
<p>Many Advantages, No Success</p>
<p>Ursula Burns, Risk Taker</p>
<p>The Real Hidden Advantage</p>
<p>6 Disrupt Yourself 87</p>
<p>Use Self–Disruption to Attain Success</p>
<p>Disrupting the Body: Building Muscle</p>
<p>Disrupting the Individual</p>
<p>Shooting for the Stars</p>
<p>The Power of O</p>
<p>Reinventing Your Business</p>
<p>Disrupting Your Nation</p>
<p>Starting Successfully</p>
<p>7 Abandoning Your Comfort Zone 109</p>
<p>Risk It</p>
<p>Comfort Zone Versus Twilight Zone</p>
<p>Risk–Taking Impacts the World</p>
<p>Journey to America: In Search of Religious</p>
<p>Freedom</p>
<p>Risky Business</p>
<p>Amazon</p>
<p>Personal Risk, Incredible Growth</p>
<p>Into the Light</p>
<p>8 When the Going Gets Tough 127</p>
<p>Pairing Risk with Perseverance Is Necessary for Your Ultimate Success</p>
<p>Staying the Path, Eyes Ahead</p>
<p>Insights Help You Reassess Your Goals</p>
<p>The Blind Man Riding on the Back of a Blind Tiger</p>
<p>A Cinderella Story</p>
<p>Insights Help You Persevere</p>
<p>Taking the Long View and the Long Road</p>
<p>Coming from Nowhere, Going Somewhere</p>
<p>Fail Again and Again</p>
<p>Into the Heart of Darkness</p>
<p>Passion Play</p>
<p>9 Verify and Magnify Your Success 145</p>
<p>Periodically Check to See If You Are Meeting</p>
<p>Goals and Stretching Yourself to Achieve Success</p>
<p>Verify</p>
<p>Personal Growth</p>
<p>Quantification of Outcomes</p>
<p>Are You Coasting?</p>
<p>Magnify Your Success</p>
<p>The Magnifier</p>
<p>The Platform Effect</p>
<p>Network Effects</p>
<p>Now What?</p>
<p>10 Enhance Yourself 163</p>
<p>Success Without Self–Care Is Failure</p>
<p>Hacking the Body By Any Means?</p>
<p>Biohacking</p>
<p>Future You</p>
<p>Busy = Better?</p>
<p>Good Health Do You Measure Up?</p>
<p>Boost Your Brainpower</p>
<p>Stress, Rest, and Your Brain</p>
<p>Meditation Can Rewire Your Brain For Good</p>
<p>Some Final Words</p>
<p>Epilogue 185</p>
<p>Your Personal Journey to Success Will Be Entirely</p>
<p>Unique</p>
<p>Should Success Be Measured Only by Money, Status, and Power?</p>
<p>The Ethics of Strive</p>
<p>Striving, for Life</p>
<p>Striving Together</p>
<p>Index 203</p>