The Art of Significance

Achieving the Level Beyond Success

By: Dan Clark

Narrated by: Dan Clark

What would you rather have - conventional success or a high level beyond success? Dan Clark, one of the world’s leading inspirational speakers and leadership trainers, vehemently opposes the conventional wisdom about success. He believes it’s tragic and superficial to build our careers and personal lives around getting more money, bigger houses, cooler toys, and fancier job titles. What’s it all worth in the end? How many outwardly successful people still feel empty inside? Clark has spent decades traveling around the world, interviewing the famous and powerful; consulting with presidents and generals and sheikhs and corporate leaders; creating a multimillion-dollar business; and (before any of the above) overcoming a paralyzing injury.

All those experiences have convinced him that the happiest people in the world don’t pursue success at all. Instead, they pursue significance - and find that success comes along as part of the package. He illustrates his ideas with a wide range of powerful true stories from business, education, the military, and sports - starting with his own story of fighting his way back from a serious injury that cut short his football career. Paralyzed both physically and emotionally, Clark began his recovery only when he started to focus on purpose rather than on goals; on being whole rather than famous; on serving others rather than seeking praise. In the long run, that accident was the greatest gift he ever received, setting him on a lifelong path toward true significance.

Clark’s wisdom will stimulate your intellect, challenge your beliefs, and penetrate your heart. By following his Laws of Significance, you will learn to connect your head and heart, manage your priorities, and live an extraordinary life that matters to your family, friends, coworkers, community, and country.

©2013 Dan Clark (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC

Critic reviews

"Dan Clark shows how success is but a stepping-stone to the real prize - making a difference that benefits others. He offers common-sense tools for character building and focusing on the greater purpose. Mr. Clark’s work affirms my belief that ‘the best exercise for the human heart is reaching down and lifting another up." (Jon Huntsman, Sr., founder and executive chairman, Huntsman Corporation)

"Dan Clark’s The Art of Significance is a magnificent audiobook! His 12 Laws urge us to chart a course beyond the fleeting success found in money, popularity, and fame in order to enjoy the enduring rewards found in service, obedience, harmony, and love. Leaving a lasting legacy is our true gift to the world." (Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust)

inspirational and insightful

Dan is the most inspirational and insightful motivational speaker today and his book reflects a lifetime of living and communicating what it means to be really alive.

Significant

Dan Clarke can teach significance and talk about it, because he's lived it and practices what he preaches. Excellent book, read and reread and take notes.
We need more people like this in the world. i totally respect and admire him.

Powerfully inspiring

Listened to multiple times. Powerful, great stories that pulled at my heart strings and inspired to action, one step at a time.

on my top 5 must reads!!!

this book was life-changing for me. will be recommending it like crazy to all my family and clients!

Great book

Really resonated with me as I continue to go for success and I need to be focusing on significance

So inspirational!

I’ve listened to this book so many times. I will continue to read and reread!

Never going to be the same, significant reframe to what matters.

Illuminating. Beautifully performed and written. What a wonderful compilation of insights on timeless laws, and meaningful life mastery techniques rooted in natural laws. Success is great but significance is the higher law and with higher levels of obedience and understanding results will be raised. Thank you Dan for your amazing life and example.

Excellent resource

True principles and interesting and inspirational stories. Life-changing. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Give it a try, you won't regret it.

I met Dan at the MDRT meeting in Nashville

I first saw Dan Clark
speak at the MDRT meeting in Nashville Tennessee. His presentation was one of the most enjoyable of all the motivational speakers. I immediately bought this audiobook, and I have enjoyed it ever since. It’s help me to live the whole-person concept and live in Harmony. Thank you, Dan.

Becoming, Happier and discovering your potential.

Liked the challenge to forget successful and shoot for significance and thus discover the happiness that one can discover now rather than sometime in the obscure future. Keeping mind open to new dreams as we make dreams become reality.