How to Save Your Own Life, Michael Gates Gill
How to Save Your Own Life, Michael Gates Gill
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How to Save Your Own Life
15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places

Author: Michael Gates Gill

Narrator: Michael Gates Gill

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help

Synopsis

The author of the New York Times bestseller How Starbucks Saved My Life perks up America with inspiring lessons on finding true happiness at any age and any stage of life. In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, Michael Gill has distilled his experiences into fifteen meaningful lessons. Some of these include: leap with faith (Gill accepted his Starbucks job immediately on a whim), let yourself be helped (pride is even more paralyzing than fear), look with respect at every individual you see (realize the potential in all who cross your path), and lose your watch (and cell phone and PDA) (our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness). True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves.

About Michael Gates Gill

Michael Gates Gill is the author of How Starbucks Saved My Life and the son of New Yorkerwriter Brendan Gill. A former creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising, he now works at Starbucks and has no plans to retire. He lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on November 23, 2013

The subtitle of this book says it all: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places. This is a follow-up to Gill’s memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life. In the first book he outlined his fall from a high-powered advertising executive to a depressed “failure.” And then how a job at a local Starbucks......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on January 11, 2010

Have you stopped to smell the roses lately? Well, according to Michael Gates Gill, author of "How to Save Your Own Life", you should. His circumstances would give most people pause. He was let go from a prestigious New York advertising firm in mid-life, had a marriage end (albeit due to his affair)......more

Goodreads review by Ben on December 31, 2009

Thank you to Jessica Chun with Gotham Books/Avery, she donated this awesome new book for me to read and critique. Some of my readers have told me that my novels view life too seriously, others have tole me that my books are chunks of abstract art. I welcome all criticisms. For effort I gave How to Sav......more

Goodreads review by Emily on December 30, 2009

Thanks to an advance copy, I had an opportunity to preview Michael Gates Gill's How to Save Your Own Life. Written as a follow-up to How Starbucks Saved My Life, which was a riches to rags story if ever there was one, this newest book is likely to find a following among those down on their luck and......more

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