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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives (2011)

by Katie Couric(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0679643869 (ISBN13: 9780679643869)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Random House

review 1: Listened to this while commuting and I liked hearing different reader voices for different stories. These lessons were fascinating, varied, and well choreographed. I kept wanting to jot down notes--not so easy while driving! Worthy of checking out the print book and spending more time with it. I could see this book being something to look at again and again, seeing it with different eyes based on current situation.
review 2: Quick read with lots of short stories around the theme of advice. Some advice is better than others. Here's a few of my favorite quotesLife is tragically short. While we are here we have an obligation to give and receive joyYou will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did.Success in one area does not prec... morelude success in another.Get over yourself.Do the best you can every day.Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.I never learned anything while I was talking.I am humbled by all that I don't know.Never fear failure or hard workLuck is about being open to the opportunity beyond the present situation.As you cook up your own life, never let anyone else's recipe for success intimidate you or get in your way. Know your own truth and live by it.And finally NOTHING REALLY MATTERS EXCEPT YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY less

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