Books & Resources by NTLA

The book that inspired the Academy. For those who are not prepared to settle for the mundane. Here are practical strategies to inspire you and awaken dormant dreams.

Based on Lowell’ s own experience, this book provides important insights on to how to redesign your life, awaken dormant dreams, create audacious goals, and take high-stake risks to achieve them. It examines the anatomy of a dream and shares a four-step (DARE) program to realize high-stake dreams. Lowell has learned from both success and failure, but most of all, he has learned the benefits of pure grit and tenacity. Shortlisted for Business Book of the Year in the UK 2024s.

What follows Failure. After Lowell`s failed attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean by Sailboat.  Whether you're facing a career setback, personal loss, or any dashed hope, this book provides tools to reignite your passion and rebuild your dreams. Discover how to turn adversity into opportunity and restore your zest for life.

Longevity and the Art of Community: Lessons from Japan (coming 2027) explores what one of the world’s oldest societies can teach us about healthy lifespan, independence, community, and the future older consumer. Drawing on two years of immersive field research across Japan from Okinawa to remote mountain villages and island communities, Lowell Sheppard examines how demographic aging is reshaping behavior, wellbeing, housing, purpose, and social connection in ways increasingly relevant to organizations worldwide.

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Boys, he argues, need the combination of adventure, belief and ceremony that PROPs provide to help them understand and accept their arrival into adulthood - and for the rest of the community to recognise their arrival as well.