Living Globalized: The Story That Started From An Elevator

An American and a Pakistani penned a book titled 'Living Globalized' that brims with serendipity; the central message is along the lines of ‘if you try and extend yourself, you will have happy accidents’. The mechanism by which this happens is twofold: the surprising possibilities of the human spirit and the enduring power of human connections.

The book is co-authored by an American electrical engineer Jeffrey Eker Jr. and a Pakistani entrepreneur Sarang Shaikh, both the authors met in an elevator in Sri Lanka and started chit chat some five years back.

Jeffrey sharing his experience said that: "As I traveled around the world as an electrical engineer had always had the ambition to spread the power of international perspective and I was able to do so in partnership with Sarang, both volunteering on the international level and partnering in entrepreneurial debris, where we had the opportunity to launch cultural cloud at real Olympics, so we contacted international travelers with locals based on similar interests, and a couple of years after we met in that elevator in Sri Lanka, we sat back at World Bank Summit and realized that we have really taken for granted a lot of opportunities that we had had and we wanted to be able to capture in a book, which ultimately became Living Globalized.'

He further added that the book was structured in way that each chapter started with a lesson and then a story followed by some actual terms on how to be more global citizen, they followed that structure a chapter followed by the other author regarding their lives before they met on the elevator.

Mr. Eker revealed that the second half of the book they spoke about the partnerships they had the opportunity to do in volunteering as well as entrepreneurship, and finally the central idea of the book that really truly anybody could make an impact on the international stage, whether in volunteering or to the career path way.

The book was published by Roshni Publication, Sindh in 2018 and it contains 313 pages. Last week both Jeff and Sarang were invited by MUET, LUMHS, and Sindh universities, where both authors shared their experiences on how to be globalized.