Thirty-SecondMind Mechanix

The author

Asa Saint Clair

Asa Saint Clair started with less than zero. He grew up surrounded by poverty, the projects, abuse, and the loss of his mother at seven, circumstances that pointed toward another life lost before it ever really began. But somehow, he found another path. He became a management consultant, financial advisor, investment banker, entrepreneur, and CEO of several companies before eventually becoming President of an intergovernmental organization, sitting in rooms with world leaders under the title His Excellency.

Then his life took another improbable turn. The same position that had taken him into those rooms ultimately landed him in federal prison. While maintaining his innocence, Saint Clair used his time in a prison camp to look backward so he could understand how to move forward. He filled notebooks examining the turning points, beliefs, decisions, and mental processes that had allowed a kid who started with so little to repeatedly become more than his circumstances predicted. Those notebooks became this book.

Saint Clair has risen from less than nothing, fallen, and risen again. What he discovered along the way is that one of the most important questions you will ever answer is: Who are you? But there is an even more important question: Who do you want to be? You don’t need to spend the rest of your life fighting yourself. The choices that held you back came from programming you probably never chose.

This book teaches you how to change that programming, design your life by choice rather than chance, and when the need arises, be the person who succeeds in thirty seconds or less.