The Little Red Book of Wisdom

I just finished Mark DeMoss's small, but inspiring The Little Red Book of Wisdom. Twenty-three short chapters address wisdom related to one's own personal and professional life. DeMoss frequently shares wisdom from his deceased father as well.  It's not a get rich quick or self help book. It's just a book on wisdom - how God plays a huge part in everything we do.

From the website:

"Everyone, it seems, wants wisdom in life. But too many people seem to think wisdom somehow is reserved for the best-educated, highest-paid, and most powerful among us.

Well, I believe wisdom is available to all of us, regardless of age or stage of life, and this little book shares three ways we can get it.

If life is ultimately defined by decisions we make—where to go to school, whether to marry,
where to work and live, how to spend money, and so on—wisdom, or lack of it, drives these decisions. So how do we get it?

The Little Red Book of Wisdom is comprised of 23 short chapters of insights on wisdom for your professional life and your personal life. Full of illustrations, the chapters address wisdom related to life and death, technology, honesty, integrity, wealth, listening, letter-writing, deathbed regrets, the workplace, even alcohol, among other subjects.

This book also challenges much “conventional” wisdom of today. Work harder to get ahead? Not so, according to a chapter titled Work Less, Think More. Wonder where all these “self-made” millionaires come from? Read A Turtle on a Fencepost.

You’ll read about famous people like Billy Graham, Nelson Mandela, and golfer John Daly. You’ll also read about some wise people you’ve likely never heard of, like Lamar Lussi, a one-time school janitor; John, a missionary to Hong Kong; and Cecil “Red” Benton, a deceased auto mechanic.

Don’t concede wisdom to other people; grab hold of it and let it guide you through your

daily grind, informing decisions large and small. Wisdom is for all of us."

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