This is a must gift for any young person, maybe even younger than a high school graduate. I may have even been able to avoid my ex-husband!!!
She gives you a rundown on what realistically to expect out of live, love, career and everything in between. I am 56 and had I had this book to read in 1968 when I graduated high school I might have had the tools to do things a little better through my 20's and 30's. Here is the truth about: the price we pay for giving in to our fears, as well as the relief we feel when we finally face them the humiliation of swallowing our ego so that we can learn from an abusive experience the rewards of taking risks and the pain of failure the joy of finding someone we can love and the limitations of every relationship how it's never too late to tap the wisdom of others, even (especially!) our own parents and the importance of taking what we do seriously without taking ourselves seriously. all the things we wish we knew before we started out, and that few people ever honestly discuss. Maria Shriver's Ten Things I Wish I'd Known-Before I Went out into the Real World gives us her reflections, confessions, advice, memories, and, most of all, hard-earned lessons. Facing that terrifying question: "What have I been put on this earth to do?" You could call them notes from life's trenches.Knowing that children will both exhaust and sustain you.Wanting to be a high-powered success and super parent.Being asked to bend your principles-by your superiors.Giving up the Wedding Delusion, not to mention that one-way ticket to Happily Ever After.Dealing with-and learning from-the Boss from Hell.Starting at the bottom-over and over again.I wish all of you the faith and the courage to pinpoint your passion. “Each and every one of you is a powerful, resilient human being capable of living the life you design for yourself. As a wise person once told me: If I could spare you the pain you’re experiencing, I wouldn’t–because I wouldn’t want to deprive you of the strength and wisdom you’ll gain from having gone through it and come out the other side.” No one can spare you that, because learning is experiential, and you have to do it yourself. Not from having to learn the lessons I had to learn. “I wrote this book so that you might be spared. Maria’s reflections, confessions, advice, memories, and most of all, hard-earned lessons.Įxpanded from Maria’s acclaimed College of the Holy Cross commencement address and written in the voice of a trusted and trusting best friend, Ten Things I Wish I’d Known-Before I Went Out into the Real World is a pithy, poignant, down-to-earth, and at times laugh-out-loud book that will help people of all ages and on all roads in life.
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