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Offers advice for achieving success using the gifts one has, and provides a roadmap to help identify those gifts, acknowledge them, and perfect them.

Argues that feelings, rather than positive thinking or intelligence, set the tone for people's lives, and helps listeners find peace and pleasure in life by feeling rather than thinking.

Lawyers, accountants, software engineers, that's what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened...