Personal Brand & Positioning
Who is Scott Scovill and what is the book Tenacious about?
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The short answer
What the archive says
01Scott Scovill was diagnosed by a therapist with fear of failure after flunking out of college; the therapist told him it would be easier for him to grab a hot stove and hang on than to actually try. source →
02Tenacious features 17 guests, including Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, who writes in chapter one about fighting brain cancer three times rather than about winning gold. source →
03Story-driven self-help outperforms prescriptive self-help: Scott deliberately wrote a book that shows what he did rather than telling readers what to do, and wrote it entirely without AI. source →
In their words
What was actually said
He is the author of Tenacious, the art of relentlessly pursuing your wildest dreams. What's up Scott? Hey man, it's really good to be here.
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