Strive: How Doing The Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success - Hardcover

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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.

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WHY EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT SUCCESS IS WRONG AND WHERE THE KEY TO SUCCESS REALLY LIES

In this controversial new book by internationally-acclaimed tech wizard and venture capitalist, Scott Amyx, you'll find out why everything you thought you knew about becoming a success is wrong. More importantly, you'll discover what you can do to dramatically boost your chances of realizing your goals and living the dream.

Amyx, a bona fide rags-to-riches story himself who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing as a poor immigrant to become an internationally acclaimed visionary businessperson, tells his own story and the stories of dozens of individuals throughout history who beat the odds to become outrageously successful. In the process, he reveals the shortcomings of conventional wisdom about success and explains why following it just may be what's holding you back.

ADVANCED PRAISE FOR Strive

"Strive. Pushing through our limits, doing the hard thing, and focusing on constant and never ending growth and improvement is the ticket to impact and fulfillment!"
—Tony Robbins, World-Renowned Business Leader and Peak Performance Strategist, Best-Selling Author of Unshakeable, Money Master the Game, Unlimited Power, and Awaken the Giant Within

"We all know or have read stories of people who seem to rise from the ashes or come out of nowhere to achieve success. Strive points out that most of these individuals were not extraordinary by nature but extraordinary by action."
—Forbes

"The true alchemy of Strive is that it combines, great storytelling, great anecdotes, and some pretty profound insights. No question Scott Amyx's key takeaway is to get comfortable being uncomfortable … or perhaps find yourself a different journey. Learning to live perpetually outside your comfort zone is perhaps a condition precedent for success—the special sauce for cooking up ideas that will change the world."
—Tribeca Film Festival

"Strive teaches us to embrace discomfort and achieve success in this exponentially changing world."
—Singularity University

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What is the key to success?

Is it all a matter of hard work and practice, practice, practice? How about being born with loads of talent? Maybe the trick is coming from the right family and having great opportunities dropped in your lap? Then, of course, there's the quintessentially American belief in the power of positive thinking—because, as everybody knows, the Universe bends to the will of she who maintains a positive outlook, come hell or high water.

Let's face it, if all the "surefire" success formulas really worked, the world would be populated with nothing but successful people—and if diet fads really worked, we'd all look fabulous in Speedos.

The hard truth is that the world is replete with spectacularly talented failures, positive- thinking flops, and hardworking people who made all the right moves only to have success elude them. You won't hear their stories in any of the motivational books and seminars crowding the self-help market. That's because, as the old adage says: "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."

In this thought-provoking book, Scott Amyx, an honest-to-goodness, rags-to-riches story in his own right, proposes an alternate theory of success. Drawing upon the stories of dozens of successful individuals throughout history—everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Bill Gates, Thomas Edison to J. K. Rowling—Scott shows that, while hard work, talent, and positive thinking may have played a part in some people's successes, they weren't what put them over the top. He persuasively argues that the one factor that matters most to a person finding success is his or her willingness to go outside their comfort zone and sacrifice the safe, the familiar, and the tried-and-true in pursuit of their goal.

But Scott doesn't just talk the talk, he shows you how it's done with his original S.T.R.I.V.E. approach to achieving lasting success. You'll learn how to set a clear, achievable goal, devise a plan for getting there, overcome your fears and embrace risk, monitor your progress, and keep yourself physically and mentally fit and prepared to realize your plan and to enjoy your success once you've made it.

Strive doesn't offer you any guarantees of success. What it delivers is an approach that, regardless of your background, upbringing, talent, time, or education, enables you to use what you've got to work with to take your best shot at real, lasting success.