Award-winning broadcast journalist and NBC anchor-woman Maria Shriver
reveals the lessons she has learned that have guided her journey as a
career woman, wife and mother.
You could call them notes from life's trenches. Maria Shriver's TEN
THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN--BEFORE I WENT OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD gives us
her reflections, confessions, advice, memories, and, most of all,
hard-earned lessons . . . all the things we wish we knew before we
started out, and that few people ever honestly discuss. Here is the
truth about: the price we pay for giving in to our fears, as well as the
relief we feel when we finally face them; the humiliation of swallowing
our ego so that we can learn from an abusive experience; the rewards of
taking risks and the pain of failure; the joy of finding someone we can
love and the limitations of every relationship; how it's never too late
to tap the wisdom of others, even (especially!) our own parents; and the
importance of taking what we do seriously without taking ourselves
seriously.
Expanded from Maria's acclaimed College of the Holy Cross commencement
address and written in the voice of a trusted and trusting best friend,
TEN THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN--BEFORE I WENT OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD is a
pithy, poignant, down-to-earth, and at times laugh-out-loud book that
will help people of all ages and on all roads in life.
