Ran Zilca Pre-Releases "Ride of Your Life," A Positive Psychology Guide Based on his 6,000-Mile Journey to Find Inner Peace
Available now for pre-order on Amazon, Zilca's book chronicles his experiences on a coast-to-coast solo motorcycle ride and conversations with experts like Deepak Chopra and Philip Zimbardo
New York, December 2, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Ran Zilca, an entrepreneur and research scientist who pioneered the use of mobile applications for personal transformation, announced that Ride of Your Life (www.RideOfYourLife.com) is available for pre-order.
The book follows Zilca’s coast-to-coast motorcycle journey, describing the meditative experience of traveling the country’s back roads and his life-changing conversations with seven prominent positive psychologists and personal growth leaders, including spiritual leader Deepak Chopra and bestselling author Byron Katie, the creator of the self-inquiry method called The Work.
“Ride of Your Life may have started as my personal journey, but it transformed into an opportunity to find answers to some of the big questions confronting everyone at some point in life,” said Zilca. “The book shares my experiences, but it also asks ‘What lessons could you learn from a once in a lifetime adventure?’ It’s inspiration for anyone to go after their dreams.”
Published by Booktrope, Ride of Your Life is available now for pre-order at Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/preorderROYL) for $6.99 eBook and $13.95 Paperback. The book’s official release date is December 12, 2014.
The book includes a foreword by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, internationally recognized as a leading “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, and his classic research, The1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.
Ride of Your Life has already generated critical attention and recognition:
“Ran Zilca’s Ride of Your Life guide is a rare collection of scientifically-sound advice fused with unique spiritual experiences, which is bound to lead you in a transformative journey through life.” Deepak Chopra, spiritual leader and world-renowned speaker and author on the subject of alternative medicine.
“Ran Zilca’s journey reads joyful, painful, insightful, meaningful, and so real. There is authenticity in his words that will surely reflect your own personal challenges. Join Ran for this ride. It could be the ride of your life.” Itai Ivtzan, program leader of Masters in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of East London
“Ran Zilca has carved out a whole new literary genre: the positive psychology travel memoir….Anyone who reads this book will be sowing seeds of change, finishing it as a slightly different person than before he/she started.” Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside
“In this enjoyable read, you’ll befriend Ran Zilca during his soul-searching life transformation and find yourself resonating with his fears, his yearnings, and his well-earned insights.” Barbara Frederickson, Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory
About Ride of Your Life
In 2010, research scientist and entrepreneur Ran Zilca left his home in New York on a motorcycle, bound for California in search of answers to questions he did not even realize he had. During the soul-seeking 34 days that followed, he spent hundreds of hours in contemplation, met with dozens of people from all walks of life who shared the road with him, and interviewed leading experts in research labs, spiritual centers, and temples all across the country. 6,000 miles later he returned home with answers and an overwhelming desire to share his learnings with the world.
Taking the collective knowledge of experts and researchers, the lifetimes of experience of the people he met, and the silent wisdom of the road, Zilca has compiled this guide to finding inner peace. Ride of Your Life brings this experience to you, along with the simple, eternal truths that emerged as a practical guide for a happier life.
About Ran Zilca
Ran Zilca is a research scientist, technology entrepreneur, and certified personal coach, who pioneered the use of mobile applications to deliver programs of positive personal transformation. With a combination of psychological research and computer science, Ran’s companies develop innovative programs of personal growth and have worked closely with partners like Deepak Chopra and Stephen Covey. His research in engineering and psychology has been published in major scientific publications in the past 22 years, and his weekly posts on major blogs attract hundreds of thousands of readers each month.
Ran is a loving husband and father of three, a guitar player, and a biker. In the course of his work, he developed a step-by-step process of personal transformation and followed it in his life. The result was a 6,000 mile solo motorcycle ride across the country, a new book, the sale of his company, and a move to a different continent.