This is serious self-help. The irrepressible Ben Stein asks us simply to “cowboy up,” as the saying goes: live without self-pity or excuses. This is what Ben calls “bunkhouse logic,” and it's as rugged as the western heroes who espoused it. This is not some glib, upbeat view of life: as Publishers Weekly put it, “Stein's writing is dark, funny and devoid of sunny aphorisms: readers should accept that life is a series of potentially debilitating blows, forego 'illusions that anything will work out in a just or decent or proper way,' realize that 'constant ass-kissing is so demeaning to the ass-kisser and the ass-kissed that it cheapens life' and always 'dream your biggest dreams.'" Tough talk that's worth hearing.
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