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CLASSIC ADVICE

Literary Classics and Their Value in Contemporary (Professional) Life

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War Or: Victory is Built on Knowledge

Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Or: You Are Not Done Until You Die

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Or: It’s Never Too Late to Start Over

Voltaire’s Candide Or: Optimism Taken to the Extreme

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Or: The Fatal Consequences of a Single-Minded Obsession

Homer’s Iliad Or: On Embracing Fate and Pursuing Immortality

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Or: Laying the facts bare is the first step to change.

Albert Camus’s The Plague Or: Don’t Throw Up Your Hands, Roll Up Your Sleeves!

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Or: How Not to Be Murdered by Your Mistress’s Husband’s Mistress’s Husband.

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost TimeOr: The Art of Connecting With the Meaning-Making Riches of Life

A Victorian lesson on how to take control of your own narrative.

Bram Stokers Dracula Or: Puritan Meets Prince of Darkness

Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Or: How to Escape a Madman Offshore

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet Or: Why Revenging Your Dead Father Could Damage Your Health

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Or: How to Escape the Rat Race (and Make Peace with Woodchuck Cravings)

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Or: Why You Should Embrace Aging Gracefully