Larry Winget offers his brand of tough love in his book,Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
. A kinder way to express his title would be listen, don't complain and take responsibility for your life. Talk less and listen more you will likely learn something. Avoid being a dark cloud of despair that brings others around you down. We are responsible for the choices we make and how we respond to events that occur in our life. Larry tackles religion and health. Choose a religion that causes you to treat others with kindness and love. Avoid religions that are exclusive and claim to have the one and only truth. Health: Love yourself and others by choosing behaviors that lengthen rather than shorten life.
Larry offers up some startling statistics with respect to reading. Fewer Americans are reading books than ever before creating a nation of people who are ignorant and often stupid. He advising associating with people who read and avoiding those who don't. I've included stats from the Pew research as reported in the Atlantic Monthly. Larry suggests buying books if you can afford them and reading several books at a time then summarizing them when you finish. I agree with this completely and it's part of the reason I write this blog to help refresh my memory about the books I have read. The other reason is to give other people a chance to learn something new and experience the joy of discovery.
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| http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media//Files/Reports/2014/PIP_E-reading_011614.pdf | Pew Research |
Larry Winget's 2012 Graduation speech delivered on Fox News - 3 min.
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