The Art of Significance, Dan Clark
The Art of Significance, Dan Clark
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The Art of Significance
Achieving The Level Beyond Success

Author: Dan Clark

Narrator: Dan Clark

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/09/2013


Synopsis

What would you rather have—conventional success or a high level beyond success?

Dan Clark, one of the world’s leading inspirational speakers and leadership trainers, vehemently opposes the conventional wisdom about success. He believes it’s tragic and superficial to build our careers and personal lives around getting more money, bigger houses, cooler toys, and fancier job titles.

What’s it all worth in the end? How many outwardly successful people still feel empty inside?

Clark has spent decades traveling around the world, interviewing the famous and powerful; consulting with presidents and generals and sheikhs and corporate leaders; creating a multimillion-dollar business; and (before any of the above) overcoming a paralyzing injury. All those experiences have convinced him that the happiest people in the world don’t pursue success at all. Instead, they pursue significance—and find that success comes along as part of the package.

He illustrates his ideas with a wide range of powerful true stories from business, education, the military, and sports—starting with his own story of fighting his way back from a serious injury that cut short his football career. Paralyzed both physically and emotionally, Clark began his recovery only when he started to focus on purpose rather than on goals; on being whole rather than famous; on serving others rather than seeking praise. In the long run, that accident was the greatest gift he ever received, setting him on a lifelong path toward true significance.

Clark’s wisdom will stimulate your intellect, challenge your beliefs, and penetrate your heart. By following his Laws of Significance, you will learn to connect your head and heart, manage your priorities, and live an extraordinary life that matters to your family, friends, coworkers, community, and country.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on April 18, 2013

When I first started this book, I was expecting something like Good to Great by Jim Collins, or The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey -- both good books that are self-help, with good insights, which can be used for personal improvement, but include a strong business bent. Th......more

Goodreads review by Bryce on May 17, 2013

Excellent book to be read and re-read again! Dan Clark outlines the difference between the successful and the significant and what it takes to become significant. Using universal principles Mr. Clark shows why the successful get what they want; the significant want what they get. The successful thin......more

Goodreads review by Tucker on October 08, 2017

I was drawn to the overall idea that "success" indicates we've met a goal but it doesn't say anything about the value of what we're achieving. Clark's first "law" is obedience, and it is religious in origin. Although the book overall does not deal with religious belief, he quickly reveals his own: "A......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on November 29, 2018

If you're looking for a book to enhance you capabilities as a human being, to broaden your horizons, and to look deep within yourself to find who you are, this is the book to read. Dan Clark does an excellent job of identifying ways in which we settle for less when we are really capable of so much m......more

Goodreads review by Luigi on June 25, 2019

The Art of Significance by Dan Clark is a decent book, if a bit preachy. Neither @torontolibrary nor @OverDriveLibs @OverDriveInc has a print version. Too bad. Would be worthwhile to write through the end-of-chapter questions to reflect on contents.......more