Review: The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future

The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future by Skip Prichard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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The Book of Mistakes was provided for me to review. What follows is an honest review.

Mr. Prichard has written a marvelous story around a list of mistakes that we commonly do that keep us from becoming a success. Why the story? Because it is easier to learn when you learn from a story. Even Jesus used parables to help teach a lesson. If it had been written as a bunch of dos and don'ts I am not sure I would have been able to keep still long enough to read it. By providing a story, we become engaged with the main character and want to see him succeed and by nature we know we can as well.

The mistakes, all 9 of them, are ones that everyone makes from time to time. To learn from them and advance is the important thing. Along with these Mistakes are rules to live by.

The main story (there is a smaller sub-story as to how the rules got to us) is of a young man who wants so much more our of life. He feels trapped in his job, cannot seem to please the boss, well you get the idea. He meets a young girl in the park by chance and accidently gets one of her papers. He wants to meet her again so he goes to the location on the flyer hoping to meet her again. He instead meets the Old Man, the first of the nine more that will come into his life at the appropriate time. The doctor, the conductor, the artist, the bookstore owner and more show up right at the time he needs to learn a new lesson in another mistake.

I used the mistakes recently with a group of men who have addiction problems. Most in the group were able to learn something from each one.

I would recommend this book for all. While I think young adults and teenagers would gain a lot from this book I am not sure that they would see the need to read it. Even at my advanced age of 64, I learned a lot from reading it. It is a book I recommend.

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