Friedman was born in a log cabin in the South, the South Bronx, He has always kept his New York accent. He attended P.S. 95, a public grammar school, and DeWitt Clinton High School, an all boys public high school. He started the University of Michigan at 17 but was unprepared socially. This has been his modus operandi throughout life. He then spent six months in active duty and five and half years in the reserve. After active service, he attended UCLA studying for a PhD in Clinical Psychology, but after two and a half years, he flunked out. He worked as a research psychologist in the defense industry for eighteen months, and then not knowing what to do, he applied to law school since there were no requirements other than having a B.A. On a lark, he applied to Harvard Law School, and much to his amazement, was accepted. At Harvard, he was one of the students there who made the top half of the class possible. After graduation, he settled in San Francisco where he obtained a job in a small firm in San Carlos, about 25 miles south of the city. While there he created, The Goldwater Calendar: Time for a Change??? about Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate in the 1964 presidential election. After six months at the San Carlos firm, he was fired, one of the happiest days of his life. He next worked as a lawyer in a mixed neighborhood in San Francisco which he enjoyed, but had the thought he wanted to be a university teacher. While teaching Business Law at the University of Connecticut, he wrote his unpublished book about auto insurance entitled Are You Being Taken For a Ride? A chapter of the book entitled 'Why Auto Insurance Rates Keep Going Up' was published in the September 1969 issue of The Atlantic.
After one year at Uconn, he came back to San Francisco to the hippie revolution. As a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, he reached the pinnacle of his writing career having five articles published in The New Republic in the space of seven months. After eighteen months at Legal Aid, he was asked to leave because he wasn't filing any big issue cases. He had a few thousand in the bank and wondered if he could go a few months without a job. The legal aid job was the last job Friedman ever had with the exception of teaching Family Law at Warwick University in Coventry, England for eighteen months, which was more of a vacation than a job, but the vacation abruptly ended when he received an advance to write a book on English di...
This book contains 30 rules, that, if completely disregarded will lead to happiness and you will have a lot of laughs along the way. A few of the rules are: "Focus on What is Wrong in Your Life", " Always Compare Yourself with Others", "Eat a High Fat Diet, Let Things Eat You", "Have as Few Friends as Possible, Preferably None". There is also a Midterm and a Final Exam, to keep the reader on the wrong track. Some of the book's concluding chapter's are: "The Joys of Unhappiness" and how to subscribe to "The Unhappy Newsletter".
Disclaimer: This book is not intended to replace medical advice. If, after reading any part, or the entire book, you are still not totally unhappy, seek the advice of your physician. if you go to him or her long enough, and often one visit is enough, you can become hooked on prescription drug(s). These drugs, their cost and their side effects will produce total unhappiness.*
Disclaimer to the Disclaimer: Since a doctor, a prescription drug, and surgery saved my life, medical treatment is not always unhelpful. It has added many unhappy years to my life and can do the same for you.
Título : How to be Totally Unhappy In A Peaceful World
EAN : 9780913038321
Editorial : Gil Friedman
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