John Assaraf is an entrepreneur who built several multimillion-dollar companies, appeared in the 2006 film “The Secret,” and now runs NeuroGym, a company selling brain-training and mindset programmes aimed at helping people overcome what he calls their inner limits. His pitch blends goal-setting with neuroscience vocabulary — neuroplasticity, the reticular activating system, subconscious conditioning. The…
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Robin Sharma was a litigation lawyer who self-published “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” in 1997 and went on to become one of the world’s best-known leadership writers, advising Fortune 500 companies and selling millions of books. His most practical contribution is “The 5 AM Club” and its 20/20/20 formula: wake at five, then spend…
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Andrew Carnegie arrived in America as a penniless Scottish immigrant, worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill for pennies, and became the richest man in the world through steel. He sold Carnegie Steel to J.P. Morgan in 1901 in a deal that created U.S. Steel and made him almost unimaginably wealthy. Then he…
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Darren Hardy spent years as the publisher of SUCCESS magazine, which gave him an unusual vantage point: he interviewed an enormous number of high achievers and looked for what they had in common. His answer, in “The Compound Effect,” is almost disappointingly simple — small, consistent choices, repeated over a long enough period, produce results…
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Brian Tracy wrote over 70 books and spent decades as one of the most widely consumed authors in sales training and personal productivity. His best-known book, “Eat That Frog,” takes its title from a line attributed to Mark Twain: if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you can go…
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Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American physician — board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology — who became one of the most commercially successful figures in alternative medicine. Through dozens of books including “Quantum Healing” and “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind,” he has promoted a mind-body framework drawing on Ayurveda, meditation, and consciousness studies. It’s worth separating two…
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Nick Bare is a US Army infantry veteran who started a supplement company out of his barracks room and built Bare Performance Nutrition into a major fitness brand. He’s become one of the clearest voices for the “hybrid athlete” idea — that you don’t have to choose between lifting heavy and running far. His training…
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Nir Eyal wrote the book on how products hook you, then wrote the book on how to escape. “Hooked” lays out the loop that habit-forming technology runs on — trigger, action, variable reward, investment — and became required reading in Silicon Valley. “Indistractable” is the counterweight. His most valuable claim is that distraction is not…
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Dr. David Sinclair is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and one of the most visible researchers in the biology of ageing. His lab works on sirtuins, NAD+ metabolism, and what he calls the information theory of ageing — the idea that ageing is driven less by DNA damage than by the progressive…
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Sadhguru, born Jaggi Vasudev, is an Indian yogi and the founder of the Isha Foundation, which teaches yoga and meditation to millions of people worldwide. His programme “Inner Engineering” is the entry point, and his public talks — direct, often funny, frequently contrarian — have made him one of the most widely heard spiritual teachers…
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