This book is by Iris Firstenberg, professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. I learned about this book after sitting at her lecture for the Executive Education where I work, on campus. Her lecture itself was really good, it was about story telling for business. She has the gift of telling a story and catching your attention throughout the whole 6-hour session. It is very interesting how she manages to give a lecture in a story telling format. It feels like she is telling a story, when she is acutally teaching a real business case. The way she does that, makes you listen to every detail attentively and patiently, it’s not like a regular lecturer that you start day dreaming after 10 minutes of talk, it is really good, I learned a lot. Following up to the lecture, I wanted to read her book, I like to read books from UCLA professors, and this one is really special. It is a self-help book that brings the concepts from Prof. Iris Firstenberg classes, like how to see your problems and how to position yourself to overcome obstacles and succeed. I definitely recommend for anyone. I used one of the techniques in the book with my girlfriend and it worked exactly the book said. It was about how to face frustration from rejections. Basically, a rejection is just one small part of your life, and sometimes we give too much attention to them and let them influence our emotions and our self-awareness, affecting our behaviors, so the book shows how to look at rejections and frustrations as just a small back circle inside the larger circle that is our life, and when we are able to see that it was just a small circle, we are able to move on with courage and self-confidence.
Author: Iris Firstenberg
Pages: 240
Year: 2014
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Outcomes-Shaping-Otherwise-Unpredictable/dp/111893833X
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