tailieunhanh - Echoes of a Life Well Lived Shlok Vaidya

"Echoes of a Life Well Lived” Copyright © 2012 by Shlok Vaidya. All rights reserved. Smashwords edition. Product names, brands, and other trademarks referred to within this book are the property of their respective trademark holders. Unless otherwise specified, no association between the author and any trademark holder is expressed or implied. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark, registered trademark, or service mark. Your life is an arc. You rise, you crest, you fall. This very short book sifts through historical precedent and fictional construct in search of hints. | Echoes of a Life Well Lived Shlok Vaidya Echoes of a Life Well Lived Copyright 2012 by Shlok Vaidya. All rights reserved. Smashwords edition. Product names brands and other trademarks referred to within this book are the property of their respective trademark holders. Unless otherwise specified no association between the author and any trademark holder is expressed or implied. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark registered trademark or service mark. Echoes. Your life is an arc. You rise you crest you fall. This very short book sifts through historical precedent and fictional construct in search of hints as to how to steepen the slopes. Greater success and controlled decline. I have found shoulders that offer both firm footing and welcoming shadows in which to walk. They are listed here in order of importance and of life. An arc of a a life well lived. Remember these notes these stories these echoes are but a guide. You should select your own models. Emulate those you consider great and let the natural process of reconciling your experience with their mythology navigate the rest. Family. Michael Corleone. Possess unbridled ambition. Life is about success. Not only yours but everyone you care about because no one else will. Be ambitious and ruthless in this goal. You will probably make morally ambiguous choices. You will probably have regrets. Be that person to the world because you have to. But unlike Corleone maintain a firewall. Be another worthy person to those you care about. Humble kind modest giving patient. Good. You will have those within the group who can t separate the external persona from the internal. That is their failure and theirs alone. Corleone wasn t able to navigate this line. Why Because it is honest. It takes more willpower and brainpower than being a sociopath. You want a family and you want to be successful. You aren t repressing either impulse. Rather you are bringing them together. .