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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The son of a successful engineer charts his own course to become the Harvard Business School dean.
Chapter 3: Performance artist Marina Abramović turned a troubled childhood into emotionally charged art.
Chapter 4: Craig Newmark’s experiences as a nerdy outsider pushed him to foster strong online communities.
Chapter 5: Wendy Kopp showed that being idealistic doesn’t always equal being unrealistic.
Chapter 6: Spanx’s creator Sara Blakely learned from her past failures, discovering her calling by pure chance.
Chapter 7: John Paul DeJoria achieved remarkable success yet never forgot where he came from.
Description
Getting There (2015) provides inspiring portraits of successful entrepreneurs, artists, writers and CEOs who through hard work and perseverance pursued their true passions against all odds. This collection of first-person stories aims to show how you too can “get there” and live your dreams.
Who Should Listen
- Entrepreneurs starting their own business
- Young people deciding what to do with their future
- Anyone at the start of an ambitious project