Growing up, I was a big gamer.
This was the 90s. I’d sit in my tiny room in Istanbul and play Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Civilization.
Growing up, I was a big gamer.
This was the 90s. I’d sit in my tiny room in Istanbul and play Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Civilization.
It’s been a particularly wild week in Varol-land, with the launch of my new book, Awaken Your Genius. I’ve been floored by the early response and reviews. This Amazon review from Robert Hill brought me to tears:
This isn’t a book. It’s an operations manual on how to live an extraordinary life. The whole time I was reading this I couldn’t get one idea out of my head… If this was a middle school or high school textbook and taught as a class/course it would literally change the world. It’s that good. You see “life changing” thrown around often on many book reviews, but this gem deserves that description. Almost every page is dog-eared and by the time I’m done with my second read through, I’m sure it will be soaked with a hi-lighter. An absolute masterpiece.
That’s the thought that kept swirling in my head as I browsed through the Cornell course catalog.
This doesn’t work for me.
To send or not to send?
That was the question swirling through my mind as I sat in front of my computer as a 17-year-old high school senior in Istanbul.