This short book explores an ecosystem of skills that can help one succeed in life like drive, empathy, adaptability, creativity, and the ability to handle failure. What brings the book to life is the wide range of illustrations from mathematics, history, fables, language, economics, psychology, biology, business, artificial intelligence, racing, and politics. The book concludes with an exploration of what "success" might mean to an individual.

Along the way the book asks offbeat questions like:
Does it ever help to be lazy?
Does a rat...