Lessons from a Third Grade Dropout by Rick Rigsby

Listen to your elders...

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2.5 Stars


Blurb from Amazon:

Be inspired by the book behind the graduation speech by Dr. Rick Rigsby’s– now with 100+ million views on Facebook and YouTube.
After his wife died, Rick Rigsby was ready to give up. The bare minimum was good enough. Rigsby was content to go through the motions, living out his life as a shell of himself. But then he remembered the lessons his father taught him years before - something insanely simple, yet incredibly profound.

These lessons weren’t in advanced mathematics or the secrets of the stock market. They were quite straightforward, in fact, for Rigsby’s father never made it through third grade. But if this uneducated man’s instructions were powerful enough to produce a Ph.D. and a judge – imagine what they can do for you.

Join Rigsby as he dusts off time-tested beliefs and finds brilliantly simple answers to modern society’s questions. In a magnificent testament to the “Greatest Generation” which gave so much and asked so little in return, Lessons from a Third Grade Dropout will challenge you while reigniting your passion to lead a truly fulfilling life.

After all, it’s never too late to learn a little bit more about life – just ask the third-grade dropout.

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The first thing I can say, is that when reading this I felt like I was being preached to. Don't get me wrong, he had a lot of good things to think about and few I can argue with but while reading what he wanted to get across I felt argumentative. It was like hairs lifting and being pushed to a corner. It was almost accusatory. And it's possible it felt like this because I am the lost generation he is referring to. It's not that I disagree, it's simply that anyone who comes off as definitive as this book's writer did makes me want to play devil's advocate.

I wanted to stop reading because of this feeling and while I rushed through just to be done, my quickness of reading this book (only a day) is in high contrast to the last one I read just as quick. 

I would not recommend this book if you tend to get argumentative or if you have a hard time sorting through passionate, definitive speech to get to the point. If these things don't bother you, you won't have an issue with this book. It has sage advice that people should follow. The antidotes are sweet. Personally, I just couldn't look past the rest.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 5, 2018 at 8:55 PM

    Read Better by Atul Gawende. Essentially a book of essays on the imperfection of medical science and how to make it better, Gawende gives some great advice on how to make one's life better that I have tried to keep to on and off since i've read it. I notice it's available in PDF format.

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