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The path to success is rarely easy or direct, and good mentors are hard to find. In Gillian Zoe Segal’s Getting There: A Book of Mentors, 30 leaders in diverse fields share their secrets to navigating the rocky road to the top. In an honest, direct, and engaging way, these role models describe the obstacles they faced, the setbacks they endured, and the vital lessons they learned. They dispense not only essential and practical career advice, but also priceless wisdom applicable to life in general. Getting There is for everyone—from students contemplating their futures to the vast majority of us facing challenges or seeking to reach our potential. Mentors include Warren Buffett, Kathy Ireland, Frank Gehry, David Boies, Ian Schrager, Anderson Cooper, Leslie Moonves, Wendy Kopp, Graydon Carter, Marina Abramović, Laird Hamilton, Rachel Zoe, J. Craig Venter, John Paul DeJoria, Jeff Koons, Tom Scott, Muhammad Yunus, Stacey Snider, Helene Gayle, Matthew Weiner, Jeff Kinney, Craig Newmark, Nitin Nohria, Jillian Michaels, Sara Blakely, Gary Hirshberg, Hans Zimmer, Daniel Boulud, Jim Koch, and Michael Bloomberg. “Kudos to Gillian Zoe Segal for assembling this remarkable group of visionaries and helping them all tell their stories without filters or false bravado. Getting There is both empowering and illuminating.” —Piper Kerman, New York Times bestselling author of Orange Is the New Black “For life-changing, real-world advice.” —Vanity Fair
Getting There, by Gillian Zoe Segal, is a fantastic book that everyone should read. The author brilliantly engages well-known “celebrities” to tell their own stories of how they overcame obstacles in order to reach high levels of success.The subjects of Segal’s books are experts in a vast array of fields ranging from art, finance, politics, to inventors of consumer products. Each mentor candidly leads us through his or her journey, emphasizing the difficulties and failures they encountered along the way, and the epiphanies that ultimately enabled them to transcend these challenges.The book is meaningful and powerful because you feel as if you’re having an intimate conversation with Anderson Cooper or Warren Buffet as they reveal personal, illuminating (and sometimes quite unflattering!) details about themselves and their eventual journeys to the top.You’ve probably heard of all of the subjects in “Getting There”, but you probably haven't heard the details of their initial set-backs or the traits that enabled them to persevere and triumph. What better way to learn how to get ahead in your own life and reach high levels of excellence than from people who have done just that.“Getting There” doesn’t hit you over the head with research or psychological studies. Instead, it offers captivating personal narratives that illuminate the key roles of resilience, hard work and determination as ingredients to success.I loved “Getting There” and didn’t want to put it down. I would highly recommend it to all of my patients in my NYC-based psychotherapy practice as a useful tool to help them channel their disappointments, losses and challenges in ways that will propel them closer to their goals.I also believe the stories and lessons in this book would be relevant to a very wide audience-- educators, mental health professionals, students, or anyone starting out on a new career, venture, or path in life. “Getting There” is an entertaining and engaging non-fiction book filled with pearls of wisdom and inspiration for just about anyone!
