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<p>Introduction ix</p> <p>Winning at Life</p> <p><b>1 Strive 1</b></p> <p>Popular Beliefs About Success Are Profoundly Wrong Strive for Real, Lasting Success</p> <p><b>2 Are You Passionate Enough? 13</b></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><b>3 Practice and Opportunity 33</b></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><b>4 Are You Special? 51</b></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><b>5 The Secret Things 69</b></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><b>6 Disrupt Yourself 87</b></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><b>7 Abandoning Your Comfort Zone 109</b></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><b>8 When the Going Gets Tough 127</b></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><b>9 Verify and Magnify Your Success 145</b></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><b>10 Enhance Yourself 163</b></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>

<p><b>Scott Amyx</b> 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 <i>Inc</i>. 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.

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