Preface: University of San Francisco Commencement Speech, 2018IntroductionChapter 1: The Most Important Choice in the WorldChapter 2: Understanding HappinessChapter 3: Believing in YourselfChapter 4: Choosing Your Own PathChapter 5: Hazards Along the Path to PassionChapter 6: Understanding True SuccessChapter 7: Overcoming FailureChapter 8: Choosing Your Role ModelsChapter 9: The Importance of PrinciplesChapter 10: Dealing with FearChapter 11: Achieving Your DreamAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author
Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, author, speaker, philanthropist and inventor. Fisher is known for advocating start-up acquisition strategy versus an IPO and is the author of Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths. He is the CEO and a co-founder of medical technology company, CrowdOptic and the inventor of Oracle Adaptive Access Manager.Gerald A. Fisher has been an active member of the nuclear physics community for over 50 years. After graduating with a BS in physics and mathematics from the City College of New York, he received his PhD in nuclear physics from Stanford University. At San Francisco State University, he worked as head of the Physics Department for 20 years.Wallace Wang is the author of Microsoft Office for Dummies and co-author of Breaking Into Acting For Dummies. Besides writing books, he also appears on two radio shows on KNSJ, teaches iOS programming through UCSD Extension, teaches game design at SDSU Global Campus, and runs a blog about screenwriting called The 15-Minute Movie Method and another blog called Cat Daily News.15minutemoviemethod.comcatdailynews.com