Start Where You Are is title of Chris Gardner’s book in which he shares the lessons he learned from his journey from being a homeless to a super successful stock broker. You might have seen the movie “Pursuit of Happiness” which is also a creation of Chris Gardner. The overall theme of the book and the movie “pursuit of happiness” is the same, Life story of Chris Gardner. However in the book, instead of focusing on the story the book is focused on the lessons learned.

I recently bought the Audio version of this book and I am thrilled. It was quite refreshing to see some new, good and useful material in personal development.

Rich Content

The book is rich in material and content. I am sure you know some or many of the lessons he talks about, yet he has put things in such a language that you get the lesson.

So far I have listened to only about first 20 minutes of it and I have gained so much new insights. It is a very very well written book. Every word is meaningful, no sentence is a waste. In fact I listened to the introducion 3 times already!

Focus on fundamentals

What I like so fat about this book is that it not a fairytale. It is a collection of real, down to earth, meaningful and useful lessons and tips. No promises, no magic formula and no quick fix. Long lived principles that we all know are true, yet most of us tend to avoid them because of the pain we do not want to face.

In next few posts I am going to write about what I have learned from this book. They are all going to be titles as: Start Where you are (x).