The Discus Thrower and his Dream Factory

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Autobiography - The Discus Thrower and His Dream Factory

Gideon Ariel / Autobiography

As a child in Israel, Dr. Gideon Ariel had five goals—breaking the Israeli records in the shot put and discus, representing Israel in the Olympic Games, studying at a university in America, becoming a multimillionaire and owning a Cadillac. These goals might have seemed unobtainable to a young man on his way to juvenile delinquency, but picking up the discus changed all that. And one sailing, floating throw in a single competitive event set him on a path to becoming a world-renowned biomechanist and operating his own dream factory.

Following Ariel from his birth in Tel Aviv in 1939 to a kibbutz where he met the people that would change his life, The Discus Thrower & His Dream Factory describes the journey in great detail. Once a troubled youth, his love of shot put and discus improved not only his physical performance but his emotional performance as well. He gained confidence and dared to dream. And when the Olympics came calling, Ariel was ready to answer. Not only a fascinating life story, The Discus Thrower & His Dream Factory teaches an important lesson to our children. Dreams have no boundaries if you follow them. Imagination, luck, and hard work are necessary ingredients for success.

If your mind bubbles, creates, and breathes life into dreams, then dreams can become real. The mind is the factory, which forges the dreams.

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Chapter 19 - You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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Life in Coto de Caza continued for our companies, our two continually evolving products, and ourselves. After all of the anxieties with the Coto Research Center and the debacle in La Jolla, Ann and I were enjoying the positive atmosphere of productivity and a pleasant staff of hard-working individuals. It seemed that we could concentrate on the positive aspects of our work and our lives. In the previous chapters, I described our mode of operation. We were a small corporation and tightly controlled the details of product development, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. To that end, it seemed as though I was the best person to explain to potential customers the attributes and numerous options that the two products, the CES, and the APAS, could provide. This meant that I was the one who traveled to customers and trade shows for presentations. I was thrilled when our old friend, Tony Payne, from Johannesburg, South Africa contacted me to come for a sales and training clinic. Tony had sold several of the CES to a university located in the center of the country. He wanted me to help train the university personnel as well as Tony’s sales staff on all of the options available with this computerized system. Needless to say, I was more than willing to go, and I saw that this was an opportunity to take Ann with me. Ann and I had traveled to South Africa several times in the past, and I knew how much she loved Africa. She loved the wilderness bush experience. She was obsessed with animals in general, and African wildlife in particular. This seemed like a perfect opportunity for us to travel for business and to add some fun experiences as well. Since I did not believe that Ann would let me go to Africa without her, it was the perfect situation...

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Chapter 19 - You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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Life in Coto de Caza continued for our companies, our two continually evolving products, and ourselves. After all of the anxieties with the Coto Research Center and the debacle in La Jolla, Ann and I were enjoying the positive atmosphere of productivity and a pleasant staff of hard-working individuals. It seemed that we could concentrate on the positive aspects of our work and our lives. In the previous chapters, I described our mode of operation. We were a small corporation and tightly controlled the details of product development, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. To that end, it seemed as though I was the best person to explain to potential customers the attributes and numerous options that the two products, the CES, and the APAS, could provide. This meant that I was the one who traveled to customers and trade shows for presentations. I was thrilled when our old friend, Tony Payne, from Johannesburg, South Africa contacted me to come for a sales and training clinic. Tony had sold several of the CES to a university located in the center of the country. He wanted me to help train the university personnel as well as Tony’s sales staff on all of the options available with this computerized system. Needless to say, I was more than willing to go, and I saw that this was an opportunity to take Ann with me. Ann and I had traveled to South Africa several times in the past, and I knew how much she loved Africa. She loved the wilderness bush experience. She was obsessed with animals in general, and African wildlife in particular. This seemed like a perfect opportunity for us to travel for business and to add some fun experiences as well. Since I did not believe that Ann would let me go to Africa without her, it was the perfect situation...

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	Autobiography - The Discus Thrower and His Dream Factory
	Chapter 00 - Introduction
	Chapter 01 - Family
	Chapter 02 - Hadassim
	Chapter 03 - Unexpected Feats
	Chapter 04 - An Olympic Effort
	Chapter 05 - Cowboy at the University of Wyoming
	Chapter 06 - Discovering a New Life in Massachusetts
	Chapter 07 - Love and Work
	Chapter 08 - Munich Olympics
	Chapter 09 - CBA Grows and the APAS system
	Chapter 10 - The Learning Ivory Tower
	Chapter 11 - The War Between Universal and Nautilus
	Chapter 12 - The Olympic Connection
	Chapter 13 - Scientific Life Systems
	Chapter 14 - The Ariel Computerized Exercise System
	Chapter 15 - The Horse Connection
	Chapter 16 - The Coto Research Center
	Chapter 17 - The NASA Connection
	Chapter 18 - Our New Life in Coto de Caza
	Chapter 19 - You Can’t Have One Without the Other
	Chapter 20 - The Reunion
	Chapter 21 - The Kidney Connection
	Chapter 22 - Now and Forever
	Index

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