Just the Good Stuff
No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)
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Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot.
Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism.
VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff, his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other “good stuff,” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success.
Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach.
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Release date
April 30, 2024 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593868478
- File size: 147602 KB
- Duration: 05:07:30
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Jonathan Todd Ross performs this optimistic audiobook with an attractive vocal personality and a remarkable resonance with the likable author, a TV political commentator and founder of two online newsletters. Ross's colorful pitch and phrasing palette puts sparkle in the listening, but what gives this audiobook real staying power is the relaxed and positive way he connects with VandeHei's down-to-earth message. The author's experiences as an underachieving late bloomer serve as a personable backdrop as he provides strategies for staying focused on what matters. The guidance VandeHei packs into 70 high-impact chapters will make listeners take a fresh look at how to select and stay committed to their most important priorities--the good stuff. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
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