Ralph Albert Parlette 
The University of Hard Knocks 

This book should be required reading for everyone in high school AND college. This one is a classic first published in 1914, so there’s none of that New Age stuff in there. Just solid life-changing stories that implore you to grow upward as opposed to shaking downward. Don’t let the ‘classic’ labeling perturb you. This one is for EVERYONE.

This is a book you can use when you need a pick me up or just a little extra motivation to make sure you are on the right track. Everyone has their ‘Bumps’ in life, but the bumps are how we learn. Read the book a second time and you can highlight passages that you can refer to later, just as the legendary Zig Ziegler says in the forward. Good book!