How your upcoming or recent graduate can succeed in the real world

When my sons were in elementary school, I thought I need to write a book for them that tells them what I have learned about succeeding in life—in the real world.

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When our oldest son Dan hit high school, I got to work on it. That book is called Succeeding, now in its third edition.

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Most, maybe all, of the other such books, are nothing but pep rally, rah rah, everyone can achieve any goal to which they set their mind. Success, or lack thereof, all comes from how you think about it and how you think about yourself, according to the book on the subject not written by me.

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MY book does not talk like that. Rather, it devotes a lot of space to finding out who you are including your strengths and weaknesses. You need to select goals based on your strengths and weaknesses not just whatever you want as if I were some sort of Santa Claus. And it also says that the path you take toward your goals also has to be based on your strengths and weaknesses.

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Probably alone among such books, it tells of the seamy side of adult life: lying, cheating, stealing, ass kissing, office politics, and so on and how to go around those minefields.

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And it has a number of skills that you can and should acquire that have a disproportionate effect on your success like public speaking and summer study of upcoming difficult subject in school and so on.

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Years ago, we noticed a surge of sales of that book every year around graduation time. That is now.

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If you have a graduate or recent one, please take a look at the testimonials I have received on that book: https://johntreed.myshopify.com/.../succeeding-reader...

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Best wishes to your graduate.