The Odyssey of Self-Discovery

 

The Odyssey of Self-Discovery

Today is the day — I’m published! I am incredibly excited. It’s been 10 months, and my book The Odyssey of Self-Discovery: On Becoming A Leader just launched on Amazon as an Ebook today (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS2H335V/)! For a limited time, Amazon is having a promotion for $0.99. The paper cover version will be published soon as well. My book will also be available through Barnes & Noble and other major retailers online and in stores!  At this exciting time, I would like to thank you all for your generous support for my book and also share with you some reflection of my writing journey during the past ten months.  “Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been writ- ten yet, then you must write it.” This is how Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison once said about writing a book.  I have never found something to be truer. I have read extensively about leadership over the years. Many of them inspired me to reflect and taught me about how to lead in a certain way. However, no one single book has truly answered my long quest for clarity on leadership. It may well be because of how the books were read, not necessarily how they were written.  With some encouragement and a little bit of blind faith, I committed to write this book as part of my continued quest for clarity on my own leadership journey. It has been a much bigger commitment than I had anticipated. At the same time, it has been a journey, even with all the labors and pains, that I have enjoyed much more than I expected.  At the beginning of this journey, I imagined that writing a book was going to be mostly an introspective activity. I was going to be locked in my office for several months and writ- ing paragraph by paragraph, page by page, chapter by chapter, until I finish a manuscript. I was mentally prepared to have some lonely time for the project. With leadership being such a well-studied topic, I wondered how much new insights I really could offer that would be of value and interest to other aspiring leaders.