throughout history some of the greatest achievements whether in technology whether in the railroads come from the biggest risks this young man has returned not because they are easy but because they are hard it's a story of inspiration it's a story of the fact that you can do anything if your heart and your soul truly desires peter diamandis is the main character the x prize a 10 million dollar contest he's kind of like this conductor of this great orchestra and they're all these other players bert rutan and paul allen mike melville set me on an epic journey a journey that would have me raise a 10 million dollar cash prize and challenge the world to build private spaceships take me and my friends up into space this is in a way a band of misfits people who wouldn't follow instructions fueled by their own passion and they went ahead and they they changed history passion and purpose is far more important than any equation far more important than money the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself this story i hope is an inspiration to keep taking big risks whatever you're doing whatever your spaceship is so to speak and at the end of it you feel like you can put down this book and you can go out and do something impossible in your own life that's what i hope people get out of it