"Rob Smith's candor about his life's journey provides the reader with keen insights that one should apply to their own life."
-Col. Arnold Scheller, M.D.
"This is an essential book for anyone who wants to pursue excellence in life."
- Grand Master Joseph Esposito, Kenpo Karate

" From an internationally known Sport Psychologist"
This is a memoir-style account of the determination, adaptability, faith, and humility it takes to earn a Black Belt in Kenpo style karate. Psychologist and First Degree Black Belt Rob Smith candidly shares his personal successes and failures, and...

"Rob Smith's candor about his life's journey provides the reader with keen insights that one should apply to their own life."
-Col. Arnold Scheller, M.D.
"This is an essential book for anyone who wants to pursue excellence in life."
- Grand Master Joseph Esposito, Kenpo Karate

" From an internationally known Sport Psychologist"
This is a memoir-style account of the determination, adaptability, faith, and humility it takes to earn a Black Belt in Kenpo style karate. Psychologist and First Degree Black Belt Rob Smith candidly shares his personal successes and failures, and...

In the late 1930s a brilliant Japanese spy-in-training hides a dark secret. Despite unparalleled academic achievements and impressive physical abilities, he hides a damning psychological disability that is unknown to the public and his military superiors. His "condition" is one he shares with few others, but they are, like him, the high achievers of their day. Scientists, doctors, scholars, writers, politicians, actors and more. Unknown for the most part, even to one another in the early twenty-first century, they wrestle their shared disability into submission or risk losing everything they...