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What I Know Now About Success: Letters From Extraordinary Women To Their Younger Selves (2010)

by Ellyn Spragins(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0738213535 (ISBN13: 9780738213538)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Da Capo Lifelong Books

review 1: What I Know About Success is a collection of bios and letters from some of the world's most famous women. From basketball coaches to fashion designers, makeup artists, and news anchors, this book can help you learn from some of the experiences that they had in their lives. There were some interesting stories and I learned things about these women that I did not know before. It was a very short read and part of me kind of wishes that the excerpts for each person went more in depth. This is also a good for anyone that may be in a career or looking for one and may need some advice on handling pressure and hardships.
review 2: Ellyn Spragins' book consists of a brief bios of successful women and a letter that each writes to her younger self at a difficult time. In ... morejust a few words, the older self shares the lessons she's learned through years of experience. Even though the women come from a wide variety of backgrounds and industries, there are some common threads through many of these lettersz: trust your gut;make time for your friends and family;follow your bliss. Reading about failures that many of these now successful women expereinced, illustrate the advice that it isn't how many times you fall down, but how many times you pick yourself back up. Now it's time for me to write my letter.... less

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