Drawing on lessons from his remarkable life former child soldier turned activist author entrepreneur and international recording artist Emmanuel Jal provides his eleven pillars for overcoming adversity and living a life of purpose.'Who owns your mind?' Beginning with this provocative question Emmanuel Jal invites readers to claim ownership over the narratives that define their lives in order to become a force for good in the world.As a child growing up in South Sudan Jal witnessed atrocities perpetrated against his family and community. These actions drove him to become a child soldier in a vicious civil war. Hunger isolation and the ever-present specter of death in battle attended his every moment. Yet his greatest challenge did not come from outside; it arose from within from the corrosive nature of hopelessness trauma and narratives of victimization.Rather than succumb to these forces of negativity Jal turned his life's challenges into opportunities by utilizing a comprehensive framework he developed around eleven pillars of support.
