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How to Ruin Your Life by Ben Stein
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How to Ruin Your Life

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Narrator Ben Stein

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Length 1 hour 1 minute
Language English
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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.

Ben Stein can be seen talking about finance on Fox TV news every week. He is known to many as a movie and television personality but has probably worked more in personal and corporate finance than anything else. He has written about finance for Barron' and The Wall Street Journal for decades and contributes regularly to the AARP' Modern Maturity (now AARP: The Magazine). He was one of the chief busters of the junk bond frauds of the 1980s has been a long-time critic of corporate executives' self-dealing and has written several self-help books about personal finance.

Ben Stein can be seen talking about finance on Fox TV news every week. He is known to many as a movie and television personality but has probably worked more in personal and corporate finance than anything else. He has written about finance for Barron' and The Wall Street Journal for decades and contributes regularly to the AARP' Modern Maturity (now AARP: The Magazine). He was one of the chief busters of the junk bond frauds of the 1980s has been a long-time critic of corporate executives' self-dealing and has written several self-help books about personal finance.

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