Think Yourself Successful: Rewire Your Mind, Become Confident, and Achieve Your Goals
Dr. Alireza Azmandian was born in Tehran in 1953 and traveled to America in 1985, where he earned his master's degree in Engineering Management and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. He returned to Iran in 1997 in order to pass on the invaluable achievements of the "technology of thought" to Iranians. While teaching at the University of Tehran, he founded the cultural-scientific institute Padideh Fekr (The Technology of Thought).
Published in 2003, it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into thirty-two languages. Perhaps Azar Nafisi's greatest act of defiance was gathering seven women in her living room to talk about books. On its face, this may not sound so remarkable. But Nafisi held her book group in Tehran, during the post-revolutionary days of the Islamic Republic, when people caught reading the works on her list, novels by Henry James, Jane Austen, and Nabokov, could be tossed in jail.
