Secrets to a Richer Life
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“Secrets to a Richer Life” presents the breathtaking insights of a diverse group of world citizens from five continents. Interviews in “Secrets to a Richer Life” reveal our core similarities as well as our superficial differences, substantiating that Homo sapiens belong to one family. While many trends in the world tend to divide us, this book is capable of uniting us through the sharing of knowledge that comes from individuals and families who in many instances have their parent cultures fighting each other. “Secrets to a Richer Life” describes, defines, and clarifies life’s key questions through oral histories from a global expert panel. This book is in the spirit of the book “Working” by Studs Terkel, but in this case, we meet the cultures of the human family. In this pantheon of global citizens, we hear the words of educators, electrical and mechanical engineers, physicians, pharmacists, financial analysts, dentists, as well as an exporter, a medical records manager, a surgeon, travel consultant, pilot and zookeeper.
There is a shared set of hopes and dreams in all cultures that can unite humanity. This book reveals this common thread through the epic stories of the panel. The book is a collection of mini-biographies that swim against the tide of conflict and promote a powerful message of harmony and unity. What instruments can be employed to foster greater human understanding and thereby avert conflict? This book is one of those instruments.
A partial list of secrets revealed includes:
• The effect of Confucianism on Chinese attitudes towards parents and towards the importance of education.
• How to be successful in a variety of professions and the relative value of intelligence versus hard work?
• What are the most valuable lessons parents can teach about life?
• What are the secrets to a successful marriage?
• How to manage internal and external obstacles to success?
• How to resolve your worst crisis and what lessons can be learned?
• Prospects for today’s youth and future concerns for Planet Earth
• Successful community service activities.
• Ideas for unusual hobbies.
• The optimal philosophy for retirement.
• Advice to future generation.
If you were a resident on Planet Earth in 3700 AD, how would you find out about your ancestors who lived at the turn of the 21st century in 2011? Reading interviews like the ones in “Secrets to a Richer Life” to a set of stock questions would put you on track to acquire that understanding and insight into the ancient period of the early 21st century.
The book can help readers enhance:
• Personal growth, spirituality, and understanding about their place in the matrix of life. The interviewees awaken readers to their role in families and in society.
• Connections to the human family in widely different cultures.
• The revitalization and rejuvenating a universal spirit and optimism.
• Some of the ideas in “Secrets to a Richer Life” will be quite familiar to the reader, but there is much new information from the enormous resource of ideas in the book. It can help you on the job, at home, and with your inner peace and contentment.
This is truly collective wisdom. The background to the interviewees is broad and deep. They are well-educated and know their culture and values well. They provide insights and viewpoints that the reader can internalize and use in their lives starting today. A person has to take decisions about what they really want and then map out a realistic game plan to get there. “Secrets to a Richer Life” can help you make these vital decisions with the confidence from others that have traveled winding roads to success in places around the globe. Earl Ernest Guile, the author, is busy working on the next volume of this unique anthology. He is a former university professor who studied at Morehouse College, Bowdoin College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Harvard University. See biography at http://amzn.to/gkwGOD.