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Life's Missing Instruction Manual

The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth

by Joe Vitale

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006

Category: Career & Self-Development

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Life's Missing Instruction Manual
How to live fully: a mix of maxims from a sometimes sharp, sometimes sentimental, owner's manual for your life.

In this summary you will learn

  • How to exert your thoughts and attitudes to shape how the world works around you
  • What the basic lessons of life mean to you
  • How to treat others
  • How to treat yourself
  • How to find purpose
  • How to consider the future

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Why you should read Life's Missing Instruction Manual

Joe Vitale’s life manual is packed with his highly personal brand of new-age wizardry and inscrutable passages from other modern day self-help philosophers. With aphorisms, maxims and fables on ideas and subjects ranging from sex, food and forgiveness to personal finance, taxes, purpose in life and how to handle death, he proffers a broad, mixed bag of advice - some he wrote and some he anthologizes - with a touch of humor and a dash of preachiness. Rather than presenting a singular world view or moral system, Vitale combs popular self-help best sellers, consults some sweeping religious concepts, and synthesizes their teachings with his own insight. The resulting book is at times quite sharp and smart, and at times simplistic and sentimental. getAbstract recommends it to those who are seeking meaning in their lives and peace in their relationships. Vitale offers enough diverse insights, both familiar and fresh, that some of them are bound to apply - if only to spur your thinking.

About the Author

Dr. Joe Vitale is president of his own marketing firm and the author of numerous books, including The Attractor Factor, The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History and The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost Instantly. His next book is titled There’s a Customer Born Every Minute.


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