Preface

Just last year, I found myself walking through the famous halls of MIT. This place, soaked with ideas and exploding with brainpower, was my creative happy place when it came to writing this book. But let’s clear one thing up, I didn’t land here because of some well-thought-out grand plan. As much as I would like to think I did that, it was more like a mid-life crisis, turbo-charged by two years of living through a pandemic.

Picture my situation—isolation, a bunch of deep thoughts, and too much time on my hands. With this self-destructive cocktail, it’s no wonder my life’s path got flipped upside down.

Nonetheless, I decided not to wallow. I thought, “Why not use this mess to reinvent myself?” Remembering Stephen Covey’s advice to sharpen ...

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