Summary of Jane Wurwand's Skin in the Game

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Jane Wurwand's Skin in the Game in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shows you how to turn your unique traits and experiences —especially the ones you may think are your biggest setbacks, into the tools you need to make your dreams a reality.

This is not a memoir. This is the journey of how Jane, and how you can find yourself and purpose by harnessing the resilience and creativity within you to drive your own success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669342892

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

You need to be resilient in order to get back up after getting knocked down. You also need to be brave, because if you aren't, you won't make the effort to get up.

#2

Courage isn’t about not being afraid. It’s about finding the courage to do something even though you are terrified. It is about defending something or someone you care about.

#3

Hidden techniques are what keep people feeling in control in situations where they are not.

#4

The author, at four-and-a-half years old, was sent off to a local day care center every day. She would play outside for a few hours, but would return home to her empty house. She would occupy her time by imagining herself as a different person, usually a princess.

#5

The author, Jane Wurw, has realized that her main reason for spending that hour in a fully developed princess fantasy was to distract herself from the overwhelming feelings of dread and fear and loneliness that would come over her.

#6

Fear can be a great motivator, and can be utilized as a tool to alert us to danger, or as a gift that helps us survive.

#7

The process of picking up the lessons in each room is what helps us become more secure. It is important to experience the good and the bad so that we can recognize it the next time it happens, and learn from it.

#8

We all have difficult experiences that shape us and make us who we are. These experiences aren’t always negative, and in fact, they can actually make us stronger.

#9

The author was broke and freezing in the UK in 1977, wishing she were in Johannesburg, South Africa, where it was supposedly the warmest place on Earth that day.

#10

The author and her boyfriend, Tony, left the UK and immigrated to