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What follows is the first of a series of excerpts from my new book Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All, which will be released on January 4th. To read excerpt 2, click here.

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EXCERPT 3: Succeeding Through Stillness

Most people sleepwalk through their lives. They fall in and out of love, hold down jobs, raise families, worry about the past, and dream about the future, but for all that activity, are never truly awake. Despite the tremendous energy they exert trying to “get ahead,” they never actually engage more than a very small part of their brain. The rest of their mind lies dormant, waiting for a wake-up call that often never comes.

The primary reason they remain in this state of unconsciousness is because they’ve become separated from stillness. Every single one of us is born with an endless supply of peace and tranquility in our hearts. Yet many of us lose sight of that stillness. We become so distracted by the noise of the world that they forget how much love and inspiration we already have inside of us, just waiting to be brought out into the world.

-Russell Simmons