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Making The Most Of Your Life: Eight Motivational Stories

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The story called Making The Most Of Your Life: Eight Motivational Stories & Essays. Both chapters within this book tell similar stories, each having slight differences that I will mention below. The first chapter is titled “Zero”, the main idea for this chapter is that, it tells the story about a student who began to do bad in school, and what they did to become a better student. The second chapter titled “The Fist, The Clay, and The Rock” focuses on the idea of preparing oneself for the real world, and uses the fist, clay, and rock, as metaphors. The main idea in “Zero” was that you can always fix your mistakes, and it is never later. Every step that you build to success. Throughout the story what I understood is that life isn’t easy, it’s

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