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The Pursuit of Dreams

Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny
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Get a glimpse behind the scenes in Silicon Valley, NASA headquarters, Buddhist monasteries, and Masonic temples as award-winning scientist, filmmaker, and international speaker Dr. Dragos Bratasanu connects stories of science, spirituality, and entrepreneurship to inspire readers to discover their own passion and pursue their dreams.

Today, Dr. Dragos is an award-winning scientist, filmmaker, and speaker who has presented on five continents. His beginnings in Romania, however, were humble, and in The Pursuit of Dreams the reader gets a few glimpses of formative periods of his upbringing. While pursuing a doctoral program in Germany, he decided that he would travel to the North and South Poleβ€”even though he was surviving on just $100 a month. Dr. Dragos describes the hard work, serendipitous moments, and amazing people he met in the pursuit and fulfillment of this dream, and how it ignited his passion to inspire others to pursue their dreams by creating a film, The Amazing You.

Dr. Dragos continues by taking the reader behind the scenes in Silicon Valley, NASA headquarters, Buddhist monasteries, and Masonic temples as he holds conversations with influential movers and shakers as well as everyday people. Interweaving these conversations with tales of others who have pursued their passions, Dr. Dragos connects science, spirituality, and entrepreneurship to inspire you and empower you to make your dreams a reality. You'll understand why now is the best time in history to bring your ideas to fruition and how your passion can be turned into practice. Dr. Dragos shows you how to find inner peace and release your fears, and transform hurt into power and dreams into reality.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781401952600

Publisher: Hay House Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Hay House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 286g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Dr. Dragos Bratasanu is an award-winning scientist, filmmaker, and speaker who has presented on five continents. Dragos holds a Ph.D. in satellite-based intelligence and has received several international awards for his scientific research and innovation. Fresh out of university, Dragos traveled alone on two expeditions to the North and the South Pole, and he became the engineer of the first Romanian Simulation Mission to Mars, paving the way for future manned missions to the Red Planet. In 2015, Google and Singularity University selected Dragos to be part of a major entrepreneurial venture at NASA in Silicon Valley. The program brought together future leaders and entrepreneurs to create solutions for humanity's grand challenges. Forbes Magazine named their team "among the smartest people in the world." In 2017, Dragos was nominated for the Innovators Under 35 Award, the most prestigious recognition granted on behalf of MIT Technology Review for "the brightest minds in Europe that are changing society" with projects that can impact the world. Website- www.drdragos.com.

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