Course To Success: Everything You Need To Succeed Beyond School is an amalgamation of success stories from all walks of life: business, athletics, military, politics, relationships, entertainment and many more fields.
By weaving together the stories of various models of success, students can assess and analyze what the common factors are in the various success stories. At AskMen.com - the top men's destination online - Ashkan has interviewed prominent newsmakers and successful celebrities from a wide spectrum (list below).
In addition, this book examines:
Academic figures include philosophers Aristotle and Plato, psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud, Distinguished Professor at USC Dr. Warren Bennis, Harvard President Dr. Larry Summers, founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee, negotiations expert Dr. Lester Karass, author Stephen Covey, Harvard's Professor of African-American Studies Dr. Cornell West, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Robert H. Merton, Dr. Myron S. Scholes and many more.
Artists include poet John Keats, painter Vincent van Gogh, director Oliver Stone and many more.
Athletes include golfer Tiger Woods, football quarterbacks Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, Drew Bledsoe, Tom Brady and Steve Young, running backs Garrison Hearst and Ricky Williams, basketball's all time greatest player Michael Jordan, tennis players Mats Wilander and Marat Safin, soccer players Diego Maradona and Luis Figo, race car drivers Greg Moore, Ralf and Michael Schumacher, Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve, basketball players Allen Iverson, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, hockey's all time greatest player Wayne Gretzky, defensemen Ray Bourque and Brian Leetch, baseball sluggers Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, legends Babe Ruth, Joe Dimaggio and Ted Williams and many more.
Business people include Apple's Steve Jobs and John Sculley, Hewlett Packard's Carly Fiorina, Lucent's Patricia Russo, General Electric's Jack Welch, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, Michael Dell, Intel's Andy Grove and Craig Barrett, Coca-Cola's Roberto Goizueta, AOL Time Warner's Ted Turner, Bob Pittman and Steve Case, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy, Yahoo!'s Jerry Yang and Terry Semel, Cisco Systems' John Chambers, LTCM's John Meriwhether, Google's Sergey Brin, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, sports super agent Leigh Steinberg, Southwest Airlines' Herb Kelleher, Canadian media mogul Ted Rogers, venture capitalist John Doerr, multiple patent holder Scott A. Jones, Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, record label executive Kedar Massenburg and many more.
Coaches include Vince Lombardi, Phil Jackson, Bo Schembechler, Joe Torre, Jimmy Johnson, Mike Shanahan, Harry Sinden, Steve Spurrier, George Seifert, Bill Walsh and many more.
Entertainers include Ozzy Osbourne, Russell Crowe, Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Adam Sandler, The Beatles, Master P, Al Pacino, Regis Philbin, Steve Vai, Paul Oakenfold, Sylvester Stallone, Jerry Seinfeld, Led Zeppelin, Wes Borland, Arrested Development, Def Leppard's Rick Allen and many more.
Historical figures from heroes to villains that have affected the course of history include Alexander The Great, Wesley Clark, John F. Kennedy, Joe Bonnanas, Philip of Macedon, Donald Rumsfeld, Bill Clinton, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden and many more.
At AskMen.com, Ashkan has interviewed Defense Lawyer Robert Shapiro, artist Yoko Ono, rappers Ja Rule, LL Cool J and Nas, musicians Wyclef Jean and Remy Shand, CBS sportscaster Jill Arrington, Brooke Burke, singers Ashanti, Paulina Rubio, Deborah Cox and Vanessa Carlton, race car driver Patrick Carpentier, Murder Inc.'s Irv Gotti, Roc-A-Fella's Damon Dash, Robin Leach, motivator Richard Simmons, soccer player Vinnie Jones, ESPN fitness guru Kiana Tom, Fox's Chris Myers, alternative bands Jane's Addiction and Depeche Mode, actors Kevin Pollak and Michael York, rock groups 3 Doors Down, Def Leppard and Black Crowes, comedian Dom Irrera, guitarist Joe Satriani, adult stars Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson, former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, Grammy Award winners Deep Dish, DJs Grandmaster Flash, Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, John Digweed, skateboarder Tony Hawk, metal band Godsmack, models Kim Smith, Angie Everhart and Megan Ewing as well as a plethora of playmates, including Jordan, Shae Marks and Victoria Silvstedt. Many of their stories and lessons are highlighted in Course To Success.
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