Max Sadik

Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M. F.K . Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity.... It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night...it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”

What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? How did you react? What helped? What didn’t? Over the past five years, Dane Jensen has asked these questions of thousands of high performers - from Olympic gold medalists to Navy SEALs, politicians, executives, and busy parents. What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us....

Most people think that cryptocurrency is shady, complicated, and unstable. Bitcoin, they say, is only a trend used by drug addicts, terrorists, and weird internet geeks. It’s too volatile, too risky, and too hard to understand. Those beliefs cause people to miss the most important business opportunity of the 21st century. An opportunity that will probably appear only once in the history of humankind. An opportunity that has the potential to turn $5 into $70 million - an opportunity to invest in the future of money itself.