This book is different than my previous 39 books and research reports. Rather than topics in marketing and economics, this book contains lessons of life beginning with my 20 hour birth as a still-born baby and many minutes without oxygen. It describes lessons learned from child labor on a farm, how to start a career, and how to get a good education without spending much money or incurring student debt.
While receiving a Ph.D. at Northwestern University, I also learned the contribution of Bayesian statistics to the question, “Does God exist?” The answer changed the direction of my life. So did teaching 65,000 students at Ohio State in addition to many more students at Stanford and universities in Canada and Africa and over 3,000 executive seminars. Years of research and teaching in 39 countries on six continents and my publications also led to serving on boards of public and private companies.
One of those boards led to a new phase in my teaching career—tutor for hundreds of men receiving their General Education Degree (GED) in a federal prison. You will find lessons learned from that Y2K experience and the decades that followed in my newest book. You may be pleased to know that it is also my shortest book, one that can be read in a few hours but perhaps with lessons that last many years.
