Finally settling into vacation mode. This morning, I woke up after 10 am. Yesterday, too. That's very unusual. I am usually up and at 'em around 8 am at the latest, because I can't relax.
Besides sleeping in late, I have been chipping away at the old summer reading list. I think that Starbucks book will be my undoing because it's the first on my list and I can't finish it. I keep looking for nuggets of business insight but I am having a hard time getting past the CEO Howard Schultz's self-congratulatory tone. It's really kind of repulsive.
The ends of chapters are especially bad:
"In daily life, you get so much pressure from friends and family and colleagues, urging you to take the easy way, to follow the prevailing wisdom, that it can be difficult not to simply accept the status quo and do what's expected of you. But when you really believe -- in yourself, in your dream -- you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck."
....
"At thirty-four, I was at the beginning of a great adventure. What would keep me on track was not the size of my holdings but my heartfelt values and my commitment to building long-term value for our shareholders. Every step of the way, I made it a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job."
Oh, and the title is Pour Your Heart Into It.
This is the type of book someone writes when they get on top of the world too young too fast, and no one is giving them honest advice anymore. Not even Dori Jones Yang, who helped the big man write the book. It gave me a pang of regret to note that she is one of my countrywomen, yet couldn't do something to salvage things.
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