So, What's In It For Me?: It Is What It Is America's Story Might Be In Crisis, But Yours and Mine Don't...

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Ed D Michael R Self

So, What's In It For Me?

It Is What It Is America's Story Might Be In Crisis, But Yours and Mine Don't Have To Be

Ed D Michael R Self

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Palmetto Publishing
02 April 2024

Social, group or collective psychology; Central government; Self-help & personal development

"'So, What's In It For Me?' ...

- Is the most personally unacknowledged, yet frequent question each of us asks ourselves every single day of our lives.

- Is the existential question which drives our pursuit of Authenticity;

- Authenticity being the virtue that personal responsibility and deliberate choice are essential to the pursuit of the determination of meaning and purpose in our lives.

- Highlights a modern-day extension of Twain's observation that ""man never does a single thing [that doesn't first] secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself"", into:

- ""This is the law, keep it in your mind. Man is predisposed to come into the world alone and to exit it alone. What he does or does not achieve in between is his individual story; a story knowingly or unknowingly written to answer the question: ""So, What's In It For Me""

- In America, each of us is born into one of two Stories which guides our pursuit of personal Authenticity! Ken Burns refers to our Story as to where we choose to live: Bedford Falls or Pottersville? George Saunders sets the choice between residing in the United States of Huck or the United States of Tom. The uninformed over-simplify the choice as one between Red America and Blue America.

- Exposes the schizophrenic dichotomization of the American Story and its history - with its odds for success stacked against it from its very inception as one Nation."

By: Ed D Michael R Self
Imprint: Palmetto Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9798822939080
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 02 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mike is the son of a first-generation immigrant mother from Russia and a military father whose own family came to America from Wales in 1792. Mike's own Life Story has been written to intentionally reflect his desire to reach his last chapter having done so with purpose and meaning. To do so required Mike to acknowledge the deleterious effects of America's Story and its Religion on his own desire to achieve Authenticity. He has previously published The Conflict Resolution Curriculum for Children in Emotional Conflict (1982), I Think, Therefore I Am, probably wrong! (2020) and is currently working on his next project - a parenting book entitled How To Raise a Happy Father.