How Not to Be Young and Stupid

By John L. Caprio

As a young individual, it is likely that everybody is telling you to grow up and be an adult. The problem with this is nobody tells you how. Worse yet, is the adults who are trying and tell you how, when they don’t know the answer to the question themselves. Well that is what I am going to attempt to do with this book.
Warning! Double Warning!! Triple Warning!!!
1. The introduction to this book is to warn the person or people who are about to read it.
2. When this work was put together it was not meant to be politically correct in any way.
3. The augmented style that is dominant is one of no holds barred, shoot from the hip, in-your-face text.
In this writing I will be invoking my right to freedom of speech by the first amendment of the constitution. The style I have chosen is the same style that I use when I teach my verbal and philosophy classes. I say what I mean, and mean what I say. I don’t pull my punches and I don't try to put things in a way that spares anyone's feelings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781304677242

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How Not to Be Young and Stupid

How Not to Be Young and Stupid

by

John L. Caprio

Founder of The Caprio Academy For Martial Arts Inc.

www.Capkido.com

Copyright © 2013 by Caprio Academy For Martial Arts Inc.

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Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to Alfred and Sally Caprio,

my mom and dad.

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Acknowledgements

I would at this time like to thank all the people that made this work possible. For without help, this work would have never been compiled.

I would like to acknowledge and thank my family, friends, and students for all their input, and first-hand experiences of life. I have been blessed my entire adult life to have worked with many wonderful people that enriched and broadened my horizons. Also, I would like to thank all of my students, the good, the bad, and the ugly, from the past, the present, and the future. I would also like to mention my many Martial arts teachers.  Thank you all for representing me with distinction and class.

Special thanks to Edward Betar’s How To Be A Man Versus A Child and Vincent Menichino’s How To Look Forward And Not Regret Mistakes From The Past for their time energy and effort that they put in.

I am also blessed to have a wonderful literary agent, friend, and student who has always given me the best advice and guidance in my writing endeavors. The descriptive adjective that comes to mind about this gentleman is professionalism. So I most of all would like to thank him. So I say to Vladimir Gutenmakher, a special thanks for all his hours of expert assistance that he has unselfishly given. With his help and collaboration this writing has been properly executed and scored.

Finally, I would like to honor my mother Sally Caprio and my father Alfred Caprio for keeping me on the straight and narrow path of life. They did their job well. I miss them both. At the very least, I would like to dedicate this work to them. In any event, the deep down stuff came from them anyway.  

One more word of mention is to all of the people that I have quoted in my work.  I could not have made so many of my points so eloquently without the use of their many words of wisdom.  There are so many people that I quoted in this work, I don’t think I could name them all but what I can do is thank each and every one of them at this juncture and give them the credit due them. It would be an extremely difficult task if I did try to name each and every one of them. To all those people, I want to give a great big thank you. 

To anyone who recognizes where a quote has come from in this work that is authored anonymous, I invite you to please send the correct name or author.  To make it easier, please also include the page and paragraph where it is located. I can then give credit due to that person.  Please send the information to the Contact Form on www.Capkido.com.

Thank you so very much.

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Preface

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Warning! Double Warning!! Triple Warning!!!

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The introduction to this book is to warn the person or people who are about to read it.

When this work was put together it was not meant to be politically correct in any way.

The augmented style that is dominant is one of no holds barred, shoot from the hip, in-your-face text.

In this writing I will be invoking my right to freedom of speech by the first amendment of the constitution. The style I have chosen is the same style that I use when I teach my verbal and philosophy classes. I say what I mean, and mean what I say. I don’t pull my punches and I don't try to put things in a way that spares anyone's feelings.

If you are one of those feel-good, don't hurt anybody's feelings, need a tingle down your spine, tearjerker type of person, if that is who you actually are, then this work is definitely not for you. I don't want to be harsh on anybody but I don't see the world through rose colored glasses.  Ask yourself one question, do you want truth when you are spoken to? If you can't take the heat then you need to get out of the kitchen or maybe in this case not enter the kitchen at all! Instead of reading this work maybe you should consider reading from your big book of worldly poems, and then you could sit and meditate in the lotus position and drink some herbal tea.  Of course there is always Xbox or the sports channel on your boob tube.  This work is for the rest of the people who are not feint of heart and want some straightforward explanations about life.  Pull up your bloomers, tighten your seatbelt, and get prepared for the unsympathetic truth from my perspective.

Everybody tells you to grow up and be an adult.  The problem with this is nobody tells you how.  Worse yet are the adults who try and tell you how when they don’t know the answer to the question themselves.  Well that is what I’m going to attempt to do with this work.  I will explain the how, why, when, and where of growing to adulthood. This work was written and aimed at the young male seeking adulthood but can also serve as a guide for anyone of either sex or of any age bracket.  I will explain to all how to be a successful person as you travel throughout life’s trials and tribulations.  Trying to make sense out of everything that is going to happen in life is hard to do.  You must remember this as you go along. Remember as well that you are a unique human being and you are an individual person. There never was a person like you before and there will never be another person like you ever again.  There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with life. Of course what I’m sharing with you is from my personal observations drawn on over sixty five years of living life and teaching people how to grow.

For you people who are overweight I have included as a free gift, Successful Weight Loss, my work on how to control your weight throughout your entire life.  Even if you keep Successful Weight Loss just for this section alone, you can always use if for a future application with the understanding not only for yourself about weight control but possibly a friend or perhaps a family member’s weight control problems.  Just that section is worth every penny for the download itself. Consider it my free special gift to you.

I challenge you to read this work, "How NOT To Be Young And Stupid," from beginning to end. Don’t skip around. Start at the first page and read each and every page in order.  Then step back and see if you have learned anything.  I would bet that your perception of the world that you live in will have changed by the time you are done reading this information. Most important of all will be that it should be a very positive transformation of awareness for you on a personal level. You may see things clearer in your life now more than you have ever seen them before.    

Albert Einstein said:  The thing that drives me hazy is the question of, is everybody else crazy or am I? Your momma told you never jump off the bridge because your friends do.  Another way of putting it might be, never follow the herd. Just for the fact that you are still reading this work tells me that you are dissimilar from those people and this in my opinion is a very good thing.  Success is opportunity meeting preparation, and you can’t be getting ready for life if you are busy doing fun stuff all the time. Please don’t get me wrong. There is a time for fun and then most important of all a time to focus on work only projects in life.  My pappy told me that I had to select from two directions in life, a fork in the road, so to speak.  I could play while I am young instead of working hard or I could work hard when I am young and play when I get older until I die.  I guess you have that same option.  I have heard many unintelligent people say to live life in the now while you are young, live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.  These are the same people that I see every once in a while in life, pumping gas, driving a garbage truck, working at menial jobs because that is all that they can do.  They are working at these jobs not to earn extra income but because that is all that they know how to do. It is sad to say but that is their main job. I listened to my pappy, I’m glad to say, because I personally retired at the ripe old age of forty. I am a living example that early retirement can be done and if I can do it you can to! 

To discover more no holds barred, shoot from the hip, in-your-face text please continue by downloading the work of "How NOT To Be Young And Stupid" from www.Capkido.com, where we debunk and defunk many different subjects. You know that you can download one chapter at a time if you choose, or you can download the whole work all at once.  Good luck in life and I hope that all goes well for you always.  I hope to see you on the upbeat of life.

Thoughts from the author grandmaster: John L Caprio  

Since time began, wisdom and information was passed from person to person, generation to generation, through: Oral Tradition.

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