How to ruin your life : an anthology including How to ruin your life, How to ruin your love life, How to ruin your financial life

This book is a collection of Ben Stein ’s “How To Ruin” Series: · How to Ruin Your Life · How to Ruin Your Love Life · How to Ruin Your Financial Life These books will not only make you laugh out loud, they will allow you to honestly assess your life. Learn from these books—and for heaven’s sake, do the opposite right now!

how To Ruin Your Life Is A Powerful Self-help Tool In The Form Of A Work Of Humor. It Is Sardonic Advice, Presented With Tongue In Cheek, Explaining How People Can Ruin Their Lives. The Essays Cover Topics Such As Convince Yourself That You're All That Matters, Think The Worst Of Everyone, Pour Salt On Those Wounds, And You Can Change People. Seriously, Though, To Anyone Who Reads This Book, It Is An Earnest Warning About Falling Into Traps Of Self-destructive Behavior That Can Ruin Any Man Or Woman's Life. More Than That, It Comprises 35 Steps That-if Read And Understood-provide A Road Map To Making Life Work In The Most Effective Way Possible. It Is Humor And Self-help All In One, Delivered By Ben Stein, A Man Who Has Witnessed More Than His Share Of People Who Did Ruin Their Lives-as Well As Those Whose Lives Have Been Wildly Successful.

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keeping A Chin Up Offering A Tongue-in-cheek Approach To Living Well, Quiz Show Host And Former White House Speechwriter Ben Stein Has Written How To Ruin Your Life. Asserting That Failure Is Often A Virtual Road Map To Success In Reverse, Stein Tells Readers, [f]ollow These Rules And You're Guaranteed Disaster. Avoid Them, And You're On The High Road To Achievement.... He Proceeds To Explain How To Make Yourself Useless, Be A Slob, Convince Yourself You're All That Matters And Act Like The World Owes You. If Ignored, His Advice Is Sound And Realistic, And May Be The Perfect Way To Push Recent Grads Or Other Impressionable Readers In The Right Direction. (oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

How to Ruin Your Life: This book features sardonic advice on how to "ruin" your life, presented with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Topics include "Convince Yourself You're the Center of the Universe," "Think the Worst of Everyone," and "Make the People Around You Feel Small."How to Ruin Your Love Life: The essays in this bitingly humorous book include such masterstrokes as: "Talk about Yourself Exclusively" and "Compare Your Lover with Lovers You've Dated in the Past." This work will allow you to honestly assess how many relationship-killers you (and your lover) are currently engaging in.How to Ruin Your Financial Life: If you do the opposite of what this book tells you, you'll learn how to handle your finances appropriately. Some of the rules include: "Collect As Many Credit Cards As You Can and Use Them Frequently," "Compete with Your Friends to See Who Can Spend the Most," and "Invest in Penny Stocks." This book is a collection of Ben Stein's'How To Ruin'Series: How to Ruin Your Life; How to Ruin Your Love Life; and How to Ruin Your Financial Life. These books will not only make you laugh out loud, they will allow you to honestly assess your life. Learn from these books—and for heaven's sake, do the opposite right now!