Minka Borec
Psychology of winners
About the author
When I was about 17 years old and spending my summers at meditation retreats in Asia and Europe, an Indian sadhu whom I met like Alexander the Great on the banks of the Indus River told me that I should bear the name Aruni because it reflects my inner character and all that I should become. Aruni means the chariot driver of the Sun, conjugal devotion, and glowing gold. I have always highly valued all three aspects – the sun, the purity of a woman’s true love for a man, and gold jewellery. I want my life's work to embody all three symbols. The sun is in my eyes a symbol of a successful person, a complete individual, and an effective leader. The sun shines on all people equally. It does not discriminate between different ones. For him, no one is an enemy or a friend. The sun has his own charisma, his own power. He is independent, yet he benefits all. We all feel good in his rays. And he brings out the best in us. Optimism, will, confidence and conviction in our own vision, creation, dream and mission. We all feel stronger and more confident on sunny days. I want my work to reflect all the strength, playfulness, beauty, completeness, passion, resilience and tenacity that I see in my character on days when the sun shines in my soul.
As a psychologist by profession and a lover of the wisdom of the Stoics by passion, as a long-time practitioner of meditation, and on the other hand as the daughter of a financier and an author, I have always carried within me a yearning to understand the soft, psychological and metaphysical sides of business. The play of energies, emotions, intellect and other elements of life in a complex set of rules that, like quantum physics in physical nature, determine the success of one's life – one's ability to achieve one's goals. Ancient leaders collected their own such insights, as exemplified by the Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, which originally was written solely as a dialogue between the ruler and himself, for the purposes of his own self-reflection and reconciliation with life. No one, however, collects these insights from current leaders or winners in the fields of economics and politics. My intention is to dive into the souls of these leaders by creating a safe space where they feel safe enough as interlocutors to be willing to open up and share their life wisdom with me. I want to share with readers the insights we have gained together during our conversation. Insights concerning the psychology of success, the psychology of self-mastery and, as a result, the realisation of one's own ambitions or vision.
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