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LAUGH & LEARN
This bestselling book is a collection of amusing anecdotes and useful advice on a wide range of subjects: money, relationships, parenting, business, work, cars, food & drink, life & death, education, health, technology, media, aging, time, animals, baseball, sailing, sex, writing & publishing and law.
The book is the sadâ and also humorous and helpfulâ story of what the author did wrong over a lifetime and what he learned from his mistakes, plus what he learned from observing other people, companies, animals and events.
Marcus often fantasizes about traveling back in time to warn himself not to make stupid mistakes.
He says, "The ten-, twenty- and sixty-year-old me might have ignored the advice of parents, teachers, doctors and accountantsâ but not the advice of me. If I talk to myself I have to listen. While technology will not yet allow me to go back and talk to myself, I can warn and advise anyone else who's willing to pay attention. That's why I wrote this book. And maybe by looking back I can influence my own future."
This bestselling book is a collection of amusing anecdotes and useful advice on a wide range of subjects: money, relationships, parenting, business, work, cars, food & drink, life & death, education, health, technology, media, aging, time, animals, baseball, sailing, sex, writing & publishing and law.
The book is the sadâ and also humorous and helpfulâ story of what the author did wrong over a lifetime and what he learned from his mistakes, plus what he learned from observing other people, companies, animals and events.
Marcus often fantasizes about traveling back in time to warn himself not to make stupid mistakes.
He says, "The ten-, twenty- and sixty-year-old me might have ignored the advice of parents, teachers, doctors and accountantsâ but not the advice of me. If I talk to myself I have to listen. While technology will not yet allow me to go back and talk to myself, I can warn and advise anyone else who's willing to pay attention. That's why I wrote this book. And maybe by looking back I can influence my own future."
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