Nayyer Abdul Rab

The library  /  Andar Ki Dastak

Andar Ki Dastak book cover

Andar Ki Dastak

A knock from within

Urdu Translated by Aleem Ahmad

The questions a corporate and life coach actually asks, and the answers that can change a life. The title means a knock from the inside. In my experience that is where it always starts, quietly, well before anyone else hears it.

Why I wrote it

Almost nobody comes to a coaching conversation because of something said to them from outside. They come because something inside knocked, and then knocked again, until leaving it unanswered cost more than opening the door. The title of this book is that sound.

So it is a book of questions rather than answers. The corporate ones and the life ones sit side by side here, because in thirty years I have never once found them to be two separate sets. An answer you arrive at yourself is the only kind that ever moves anything. It reached Urdu through Aleem Ahmad, who translated it, so that these questions could be read in the language many of us think in when nobody is listening.

A note on language

This book is in Urdu. When the Urdu edition of this site arrives, coming soon, you will be able to read more of it here in that same language.

What has been knocking that you keep not answering?