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Sovereign is the handbook for outsiders ready to bend reality in their favour – a practical guide to rewriting the limits of work, wealth, and life.
We live in an age of overload: too many goals, too many options, and too much noise. Sovereign is a manual for cutting through the clutter and learning to live with clarity, conviction, and control.
In Sovereign, David Elikwu invites readers to step off the conveyor belt of conventional success and rethink what it means to lead a remarkable life. Through stories, mental models, and field-tested principles, he shows how to take ownership of your time, your choices, and your trajectory—without needing to escape to a monastery or hustle harder than everyone else.
Sovereign combines timeless philosophy with grounded insight: from Stoicism to neuroscience, from street-smart decisions to the psychology of effort. You’ll learn how to think clearly, act deliberately, and stay focused in a world designed to distract you.
David Elikwu is a strategist and storyteller who teaches teams to turn adversity into leverage. He imported electronics from China at fourteen, trained in corporate law in Shanghai and London, then built growth and operations for venture‑backed tech start‑ups across Europe and Africa.
David now writes The Knowledge, a newsletter and podcast on ambition, agency and decision‑making followed by more than 40,000 founders, operators and creatives, with his essays reaching millions online. He has delivered keynotes and workshops for Google, Bloomberg, Unilever, Deloitte, Cambridge University, and more.
His work has been featured in leading publications from TechCrunch to the BBC.
"Sovereign is a passionate call to responsibility and agency. It's packed with helpful principles for shaping a well-lived life, grounded in the real world with brilliant examples from a huge range of fields. David's wealth of experience, his commitment, curiosity and generosity shine through, and getting to know him better is one of the best parts of the journey. Recommended."
"David's approach and writing is thought-provoking, open and most importantly, honest. There are no shortcuts here. It's clear about the effort needed and how to make the most of your time. Pick it up."
"David writes with equal parts humility and fire, and it's contagious. This book is both deeply practical and deeply human, and David's stories remind us that agency isn't abstract-it's built one choice at a time."
"The internet's latest buzzword is 'agency'. In clear-eyed prose backed by forceful examples, David's Sovereign reveals what it actually means to live a self-authored life without limits. A must read for any ambitious outlier."