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Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life
by
Gerry Spence
Beloved author of, among many other books, the bestsellers How to Argue and Win Every Time and The Making of a Country Lawyer, Gerry Spence distills a lifetime of wisdom and observation about how we live, and how we ought to live in Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom. Here, in seven chapters, he delivers messages that inspire us first to recognize our servitude-to...more
Paperback, 168 pages
Published
November 16th 2002
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2001)
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The jury (that's me :) finds in favor of this incredible little tome I wish I'd written myself. Clinton-era "Country Lawyer"
Gerry Spence touches on topics dear to this (that's MY :) free spirit's best-intentioned little iconoclastic heart. And he does it OH. SO. WELL. Read it and be FREE AT LAST...at least, until the world OUT THERE breaks the spell. That's when you read it again! And that's why, come to think of it, I'm moving it immediately to my "books I'll always be rea...more
Gerry Spence touches on topics dear to this (that's MY :) free spirit's best-intentioned little iconoclastic heart. And he does it OH. SO. WELL. Read it and be FREE AT LAST...at least, until the world OUT THERE breaks the spell. That's when you read it again! And that's why, come to think of it, I'm moving it immediately to my "books I'll always be rea...more
Good reminder of what is important in life. He describes most people as slaves to work, to government, to religion, to advertising... Especially liked the chapter "Becoming Religiously Irreligious". I do not really picture his work utopia in "Redefining Success". Maybe I'm just not as optimistic that corporate greed can go away completely and that it will be acceptable for workers at all levels to come and go as they please.
My daughter introduced me to Gerry Spence's How to argue and win any time " when she attended Georgia Southern University. I have just about every book the man ever written . I am a fan. This is not a children's book , it is a read to write book for adults and inspiration and a book that just gets you to thinking about how you feel about social issues, yourself and our precious freedoms.
As always, just another one to scan for possible tips for my talks. Nothing new, but then each author may just resonate with a particular reader,hence the number of self-help books out there.
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Gerry Spence is a trial lawyer in the United States. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence did not lose a criminal case in the over 50 years he practiced law. He started his career as a prosecutor and later became a successful defense attorney for the insurance industry. Years later, Spence said he "saw the light"...more
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“Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.”
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“The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind the door of that belief, and all other doors to learning and freedom, although standing open and waiting for me to enter, are now closed to me. If I believe in one God, one religion, yes, if I believe in God at all, if I have closed my mind to magic, to spirit, to salvation, to the unknown dimension that exist in the firmament, I have plunged my mind into slavery. Test all beliefs. Distrust all beliefs.”
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