Driven: A How-to Strategy for Unlocking Your Greatest Potential - Hardcover

Imam, Razi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470599332 ISBN 13: 9780470599334

Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The extraordinary system for changing your life and the lives of others
If you've ever felt there must be more to the daily grind, something so powerful that even while caught in the struggles of day-to-day life you want to achieve something far bigger, Driven is for you.
By revealing a powerful method for solving business problems, Driven introduces you to a powerful motivation philosophy, by which you experience a pure inspiration or vision, plan out your action with the clarity of sixth sight, hone your concentration and focus, and triumph in bringing about colossal changes in both your life and the lives of others. In this revolutionary guide you'll find
Techniques to transform your motivation into a constant state of being
Leverage your new awareness into concrete goals and achievements, such as building a Fortune 500 company
Timeless wisdom to weather and thrive
If you're willing to go beyond the ordinary in your life and business, then you're ready for the deeply enhancing concepts and techniques contained in Driven.
Have you ever wondered why and how some of us have the unique ability to dream incredible goals? How seemingly ordinary people among us influence and change the lives of millions of people. What drives them to conquer every human limitation, from breaking the sound barrier to landing a man on the moon.
Driven introduces you to Junoon, a powerful Eastern motivational method, by which you experience a pure inspiration or vision, plan out your action with the clarity of sixth sight, hone your concentration and focus, and triumph in bringing about colossal changes in your life and the lives of others.
To live within the state of Junoon is to concentrate passionately on realizing your mission and transcending day-to-day, human motivation to a degree that seems impossible to those around you. Being in this state coalesces and magnifies your ordinary strength of will and determination, and turns you into a person who rises to challenges in ways that others can't even imagine. You hold nothing back!

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Razi Imam is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and innovator. Razi has a proven track record for successfully launching companies, repositioning them, and building world-class high-performance teams. He is the founder of Landslide Technologies, a fast-growing software company that is receiving rave reviews from customers, analysts, and press. He has also recently founded 113 Industries, an incubator focused on creating companies specializing in materials science and engineering. It follows a unique commercialization process to identify and move breakthrough research from universities and labs into the market. In recognition of his entrepreneurial success, the Carnegie Science Foundation has presented Razi with the prestigious 2010 Startup Entrepreneur Award honoring innovation in science and technology.

Razi Imam is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and innovator. Razi has a proven track record for successfully launching companies, repositioning them, and building world-class high-performanceteams. He isthefounder of Landslide Technologies, a fast-growing software company that is receiving rave reviews from customers, analysts, and press. He has also recently founded 113 Industries, an incubator focused on creating companies specializing in materials science and engineering. It follows a unique commercialization process to identify and move breakthrough research from universities and labs into the market. In recognition of his entrepreneurial success, the Carnegie Science Foundation has presented Razi with the prestigious 2010 Startup Entrepreneur Award honoring innovation in science and technology.

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What's your Junoon?

Each of us has the potential to achieve greatness. Throughout history, the most successful thinkers, creators, and leaders have distinguished themselves by their ability to access this inner energy and use it to accomplish the impossible. So how do you tap into your potential and make your dream a reality?

Driven introduces you to Junoon—an ancient Arabic/Persian expression referring to a very powerful state of achievement—the essence of entrepreneur Razi Imam's unique motivational philosophy. Imam started from the dusty streets of Kuwait, laboring on container ships at the Kuwaiti port, finding the opportunity to study math and physics on his own, and finally becoming a computer scientist and successful entrepreneur in America.

In Driven, Imam shares the five key elements of his approach, illustrates how they were instrumental in his own business success, and shows how you can make them instrumental in yours. Written as an engaging dialogue flashing through important rites of passage in Imam's success, Driven reveals how to:

• Experience your vision through pure inspiration

• Discover "sixth sight" that will allow you to plan your course of action

• Hone your concentration and focus

• Inspire others with your vision

• Triumph in bringing positive changes to your life and the lives of others

What do you want to do? Start a Fortune 500 company? Invent a product or service? Get to the next level in your career? Eradicate hunger? Whether your goal is large or small, Driven gives you the proven tools to find your inspiration and carry it out beyond what you ever thought possible.

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Driven

A How-to Strategy for Unlocking Your Greatest PotentialBy Razi Imam

John Wiley & Sons

Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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ISBN: 978-0-470-59933-4

Chapter One

THE CONTAINER SHIP

I was a foreigner in the land of my birth. I was born in Kuwait of Pakistani descent. My parents had emigrated from their country of origin to this desolate and unforgiving country after the British partitioned India in 1947 to create Pakistan. As non-Arabs in Kuwait, we were looked down upon, denied rights accorded to Arabs, and frequently treated with contempt. The racial prejudice I experienced was extreme and unrelenting, and growing up in Kuwait was a continuous battle of wits, determination, and survival.

I remember as a young boy when my mother would send me to the local market, called the bakala; calling it a grocery store would be a great embellishment. It was a run-down little shack, meagerly supplied with vegetables in boxes, some canned goods on the shelves, and stray bottles of Coca Cola in a small, aged, and battered refrigerator. I'd run into Nidal and Bassam, the sons of the owners, when I was there, and we'd often get into a scuffle, as young boys tend to do. Nidal was a stout Arab twice my size, and Bassam was tall, lean, and stronger than I. Both of them had toothless smiles because of their many brawls. I never knew when I encountered them whether they wanted to play with me or get into a brawl; they could switch between the two demeanors in a matter of seconds. One could never know with them. A fight could begin with Bassam grabbing my shirt; I would push him off, and then both of us would launch a flurry of blows on each other. The next day, all would be forgotten, and we'd play together as though nothing had happened.

One good thing about going to the bakala was the TV set that was always turned on in the window of the TV repair shop next door. On some occasions, I'd get a few moments of peace and just stand there watching television. One day, as I was leaving the store with bags of groceries, Nidal and Bassam tackled me from behind, and the groceries I was carrying tumbled helter-skelter onto the dusty, unpaved road. In the midst of our brawl, I got a glimpse of an event so powerful that it completely distracted me from the fight. Through the prism of the small TV screen in the repair-shop window, I saw what appeared to be a man dressed in a puffy outfit with a big glass helmet descending a ladder. I didn't know who was stepping onto that pristine surface that day in July 1969; I was mesmerized as I watched his boot touch the ground and the dust from the surface swirl up around his foot. I turned back to Bassam.

"Look! At the TV!" I screamed in his face.

My shout distracted him and Nidal. The three of us stopped fighting, got up, and walked closer to the window for a better look.

As I witnessed the moon landing unfold at the age of nine, I shared the moment with two Arab bullies standing under a blinding sun in 110-degree heat. Thanks to the man walking on the moon, my fighting for the day had ended.

Afterwards, as I gathered up the strewn groceries, my mind raced with questions. I ran back home as fast as I could. Who were these people who traveled to the moon? How did they get there? I fidgeted in our two-bedroom apartment for hours, waiting for my dad to get home from work; surely, he would have the answers. Finally, at about 8 p.m., the front door opened. No sooner had my father come in than I started peppering him with questions. He calmed me down and asked me to wait a few moments while he changed, and my mom made tea for the family, an important ritual in Near East countries like Kuwait. When the tea was ready and we sat down together, I exploded with, "Who are these people on the moon?" My father was amused at my line of questioning and caught on to my desire to understand.

"They are Americans," my father replied. "They have been trying to get to the moon for years, and now they've finally done it."

He went on to regale me with stories of countless other American visionaries: Thomas Edison's inventing the light bulb and founding the Thomson-Houston Electric Company that eventually became the General Electric Company; the Wright brothers and the first airplane; J. Paul Getty's establishment of the Getty Oil Company; and Henry Ford's first mass production of automobiles. Coupled with Dad's tales of American ingenuity, Neil Armstrong's first steps on the surface of the moon provoked my imagination about the United States.

My father and I had lengthy discussions on space travel, the likelihood of visiting distant planets, and the impossibility of humans breaking the speed-of-light barrier. On Fridays, we would go to the local market and rummage through stacks of old books to find the ones on physics and astronomy. On one such visit, we stumbled upon an old telescope, that we promptly bought and spent the next six weeks fixing. After we finally got it to work one night, we actually saw the multiple moons of Jupiter. I think we even saw the rings of Saturn. My father supported my interest in scientific theories and favored such pursuits.

Eight years after seeing Neil Armstrong step onto the moon, I was seventeen years old and had graduated from high school. I had developed a strong interest in the physical sciences during this time. My grades in non-scientific subjects, however, were mostly C's and D's, punctuated now and then with an F. My father had only graduated from high school and had never attended a university. He started his work life as a telephone operator, but was laid off as automation made his activities obsolete, and now sold airline tickets to support our family. He was an avid reader of self-help books written by such famous people as Napoleon Hill and Norman Vincent Peale, and he would spend hours explaining their concepts to me. The way I presented myself was of utmost importance to him; to that end, he would rehearse handshakes with me. "Look me in the eye when you shake my hand and give it a good, solid shake," he would say.

To his enduring credit, he cared for me deeply, buttressed my self-confidence, and supported me in whatever I wanted to do. Although he didn't get a chance to educate himself, he believed that his children must do so, even if it meant making sacrifices. He cared so much about this that he sent me to a private high school in Kuwait City, at considerable expense to our family.

In retrospect, I understand that I may have suffered from a learning imbalance. As I stated, science concepts came easy to me, but subjects like English, geography, and history were a nightmare. And while I had a passion for physics and mathematics, I never wanted to do homework or study for tests. Instead, I'd choose my favorite chapters from a textbook and spend hours reading them. If a question came up on a test from these chapters, I did well. Otherwise, I'd flunk and incur failing grades in my subjects.

My father and I talked often about my future, and as much as he wanted me to go a university in the United States, my grades were simply not good enough. Our conversations ended with his recommending that I learn a trade. "Be an auto mechanic," he urged. "There is nothing wrong with learning a trade. Some people are meant to go to universities. Unfortunately, you have the desire, but not the grades." All those years of dreaming about studying at a U.S. university came to a screeching halt. Instead, my father used a connection with a long-time friend to arrange for me to work at a...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470599332
• ISBN 13: 9780470599334
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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