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Ansar Yawar was born in Quetta, raised in Denmark, and has spent his adult life building businesses and communities across three continents.
His life has not followed a straight line. He lost his father at eight and grew up between two cultures, never fully belonging to either. At twenty-one he walked out of a chemistry lecture, asked his mother to sell her house, and opened his first business — becoming one of the youngest franchisees in his industry. He led companies in manufacturing, fashion, marketing, and IT. Then, in 2020, within weeks: bankruptcy, a pandemic, and a fire that reduced his life to a suitcase.
He rebuilt from that too, and that is where this book began. Starting again with almost nothing, he saw that he was not back at the beginning but meeting the same lessons at a higher turn. Life is not a straight line, and it is not a circle. It is an upward spiral. He wrote the book he needed in that moment: not easy comfort, but the honest account of a man genuinely broken and genuinely rebuilt, written so it might be useful to someone else.
His videos have been watched thirty million times. He speaks and coaches worldwide, and his latest venture, EduSpace, is a learning platform where anyone can teach, learn, and build community.
Of Afghan and Mongolian heritage, Ansar lives in the United Arab Emirates, guided by the belief that nothing in a human life is wasted.
Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Life Is an Upward Spiral by Ansar Yawar begins with the problem of human misery and the question his Nana placed in his mind: why do so many people fail to be happy? Yawar answers through the image of life as an upward spiral, where familiar pain returns but a person can meet it from a higher level of awareness. His own dark period in Dubai, with business collapse, debt, travel bans, and a phone that went silent, becomes the reason for the book instead of a private defeat. From there, The Five Knots becomes Yawar’s method for untying suffering, taking readers from surface identity toward The Great Orchestra, his name for the divine order behind creation, while each exercise asks them to examine their own lives honestly.
Ansar Yawar’s Life Is an Upward Spiral is spiritual guidance for readers who pursued success before examining the misery beneath it. Yawar knows a self-help book must give its audience something concrete to use, and his spiral exercise does exactly that by placing repeated pain beside the next upward step, in writing, so change becomes visible. The question “What am I?” is valuable because it opens the self beyond a single role. Yawar’s account of pouring away his school prize after guilt over a gift connected to his father is deep, but is also why his guidance is sincere: these ideas come from experience that changed how he sees himself. Yawar writes as one adult speaking to another, and expects readers to put in the work to examine their labels with honesty. Readers seeking a firmer sense of self will gain much from this book, and I highly recommend it.
