Primitive: Tapping the Primal Drive That Powers the World's Most Successful People

A provocative look at how to better understand your primal, ingrained strengths and chart your professional course accordingly, from an advisor and confidant to Fortune 500 CEOs, cutting edge entrepreneurs and other top business performers.

After a thirty-year career working with some of the world's wealthiest people and most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Marco Greenberg discovered the common denominator in each person's success: they were all acting on what Greenberg defines as our "primitive" instincts.

While the term may be fraught-with associations of being crude and unsophisticated-in Primitive, Greenberg outlines this characteristic as something much more profound, positive and intrinsic to breakout success. It's the drive that leads us to obsess over our mission. It's the instinct that lets us ignore conventions and think up new solutions to old problems. It's the force of passion and dedication that could lead to innovation, if only we know how to harness it.

By ROAMING as primitives do-and being Relentless-Oppositional-Agnostic-Messianic-Insecure-Nuts-Gallant-Primitive teaches anyone how to unleash all of these traits, many of them counterintuitive, to maximize results in work and in life.