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Walter Kirn

2001

ISBN 978-0-307-47629-6

… Change before they change you.

…We start so small, and the space we take up as we grow is gone forever. Not everything is recycled. That space is gone.

..finding a job is itself a job, we teach, and not working is work, too, so don’t get blue. If you do get blue, forgive yourself. You’re only human. But also super human. Because you have untapped potential, and it’s infinite.

The classic will just depress you. I fled a country natured on the classics and everyone there was drunk or suicidal. Keep occupied. Work. Earn money. Help others earn money. Ignorance of the classics is your best asset.

…The sophisticates many sniff, but it’s all true : in the course of certain American lives, way out in the flavor gloom between the coasts, it’s possible to arrive- through loss of love, through the long, formless shock of watching parents age, through inadequacies of moral training, through money problems - at a stage or a juncture or a passage - dismiss the buzz words at your peril – when we find ourselves alone in a strange city where no one lives any longer than he must and all of our neighbors come from somewhere else, and damn it, things just aren’t working out for us, and we’ve tried everything, diets, gyms, jobs, churches, but so far not this thing, which we read about on a glossy flyer tucked under our windshield : a breakthrough new course in Dynamic self – management developed our decades of experience training America’s Top Business Leaders and Guaranteed to get you where you’re going !