Business leader, tech founder and adventurer Scott Davis reveals his principles on how the world and the human brain work his new book, Surf the Seesaw: Unconventional Essays on Balance, Beauty, and Meaning in Life.
When he was 30, Forbes called him one of the country’s most promising young corporate executives, but Davis stepped off the career treadmill to spend years exploring the world. His adventures led him to remote shores in the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the Caribbean, where he faced many challenges, met many interesting people and saw many different models of meaningful living.
One of the common themes running through this book of 30 essays is active balance. The book is a combination of memoir, guide, and philosophy book, and it is easy to feel like you're hearing stories from a friend, with a conversational style that is pleasant to read. He shares his thoughts on parenting, finding meaning, making decisions, and human nature. Each conclusion has a suggestion for incorporating his principles into action. If there's an essay that really resonates with you, there's practical advice to make it even more fulfilling. If there's an essay that doesn't quite mesh with your way of thinking, they're still interesting essays and valuable for getting another person's viewpoint.
“I would say that I wrote the book with my children and grandchildren in mind,” Davis said in a recent interview. “With the idea of sharing a few handfuls of key concepts that when properly understood can transform a human lifetime into something spectacular — something with so many positive consequences that the universe’s norm of entropy will have a hard time erasing the evidence of the person’s existence.”
About the Author
Scott Davis’ adult life has followed an explorer’s wandering path: corporate leader, tech entrepreneur, adventurer, inventor and essayist.
Profiled by Forbes at 30 as a rising star in corporate leadership, he ignored industry expectations and walked away from the executive suite to pursue a life off the beaten path, ultimately selling everything and heading off to sea in an old sailboat. Returning to the states at 50, Davis patented innovations in boatbuilding and founded a company to help sailors fulfill their dreams of building their own sailboats.
Today, Davis spends much of his time writing and speaking on how to create a meaningful life, guiding friends and family on adventures, teaching boatbuilding, and occasionally making something interesting in his workshop.
For more information, visit www.surf-the-seesaw.com, or follow the author on Twitter (@surf_the_seesaw), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/
Surf the Seesaw: Unconventional Essays on Balance, Beauty, and Meaning in Life
Publisher: Azure Innovation Services
Release Date: March 31, 2023
ISBN-13: 979-8987500408 (paperback)
Available from Amazon.com, BN.com and thousands of other retailers
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