11. Find your master key
I used to have the feeling that everyone else in life had at one time or another been issued an instruction book on how to make life work. And I, for some reason, wasn’t there when they passed them out. I felt a little like the Spanish poet Cesar Vallejo, who wrote, “Well, on the day I was born, God was sick.”
Still struggling in my mid-30s with a pessimistic outlook and no sense of purpose, I voiced my frustration to a friend of mine, Dr. Mike Killebrew, who recommended a book to me. Until that time, I didn’t really believe that there could be a book that could tell you how to make your life work.
The name of the book was The Master Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill. It sat on my shelf for quite a while. I didn’t believe ...
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