Walid Touma: Walid Touma is an entrepreneur, with more than twenty-five years' experience in building and developing companies around the world. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Touma is Assistant Professor of Management at the Lebanese American University.
Prologue 9
Preface: Where Am I? 11
My Square Meter 15
Unwearing the Ego 21
The Robe 21
Words 21
The Ego Shock Cycle 22
Response 23
Ego Forms 23
The Dance of the Scorpions 24
My Ego, My Shield 25
My Ego ... 26
Contagious, We Are 29
Uncertainty ... The Attitude Dimension ... The Choice ... 33
The Prison Cell: A Case of Choice 36
A Moment for Lovers 41
Enough 45
Only One Right Time to Do the Right Thing 49
Perception: The Game 50
Our Choices 51
The Drive to Meaning 53
The Taste of Death 53
The Taste of Meaning 54
Mind and Spirit Care 55
Meaning: Learning the Drive 56
The Meaning Thieves 56
To All 57
Imagination 59
Born in Your Eyes 61
Born in Your Eyes: The Story 62
God: The Concept 67
The Passage 67
Foundation of Beliefs 68
The Continuum 68
Monotheism: The Perspective 69
Of Wars, Men and Impotence 69
Of Destiny and Control 71
Our Existential Battle 72
Our Spiritual Well 72
Lemonade 75
An Entrepreneur's Path to Freedom 79
The Oxygen of New Ventures 80
Shades of Freedom 81
My Freedom, My Life 83
Understanding: The Game 85
Perceptions 89
One Night in 1994 89
Shadows of Truths 93