John Gratton

The first day of high school, 1969, I made a deal with another idiot that we wouldn’t do homework for four years. I somehow graduated, but with a very low GPA and little else. This book is about how I changed my mind and eventually, at age 24, realized that I wasn’t stupid after all....

People yell, honk, throw things, even bark and howl at me, just because I ride a bike in traffic. I understand their frustration. I used to be one of those miserable car drivers, too, and there are few things worse....

An unexpected twist in a new chapter doesn’t mean your story is finished....

More random but sparkling and insightful bits of news and short stories and anecdotes and parables and allegories that remind us of the structure extant in our day-to-day, some of the edges and vertices and angles of the quadrangles we form around us....

Values, integrity, character, and ethics have distinct properties. There are rules you can't break, and lines that you can't cross and remain true. Rather than following the crowd by seeing how close you can get to a line, why not embrace your values more fully....

This audiobook is an often amusing collection of wise things other people and I have said, supported by 60-some wildly entertaining original stories and anecdotes....

Whether you've just completed your first day as a sales professional or your fifth decade, you'll find inspiration from the sometimes surprising stories and examples offered here....