About Racing Towards Excellence

The gap between what employers expect of university leavers and the emphasis of education at school and beyond has never been greater. Having a decent 2:1 in a relatively mainstream discipline is no longer enough to face the dreaded "real world" and come out on top. The result has been to give leavers of higher education an unenviable choice between the seemingly mutually exclusive goals of "happiness" and "success".

Jan Sramek's life to date has shown that there is no need to choose between these goals. This book shows how his stellar rise from living in one room with his entire family in the Czech Republic to achieving 10 A's and 3 Distinctions at A-level/S-level, close to £100,000 in scholarships, an academic career at Trinity College, Cambridge and the London School of Economics, four start-up businesses, internships and job offers from the world's most prestigious investment banks and hedge funds, and indeed a book by the age of 22, can be attributed to some basic and easily replicable habits.

Racing Towards Excellence takes a pragmatic approach to outperformance and seeks to bridge the gap between school, university and employment by deconstructing the things that drive you.

By considering your analytical and esoteric driving forces in a well defined and intuitive framework, the book provides the tools that you need to analyse your own behaviour and use the areas in which you excel to nurture the areas in which you want to improve.

In demystifying the interrelationship between the abstract and esoteric driving forces and the day-to-day habits that make up our lives, Kahn and Sramek show how reconciling success and happiness is the key to outperformance and, more importantly, give you the tools you need to achieve it too.