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title = "Adult Stuff: Things You Need to Know to Win at Real Life - Robert Boesel, Matt Moore"
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date = 2020-02-09
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26544444-adult-stuff):
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Sometimes your first steps into the "real world" send you falling flat on your
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face. It's natural to be optimistic about new experiences, but most of us set
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ourselves up only to be let down every time. And disappointment hurts like a
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$%&*#.
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News flash: You don't have to be an Einstein to survive adult life. You don't
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even have to abandon your standards to get what you want. All you have to do
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is keep your expectations realistic.
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Alright, right up front, let me say that it is weird to read a book about "How
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to Survive Real Life When You Just Got Passed Your Teens and Now Need to Work
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and Keep a Place and Have a Life" when you're 43. But here we are.
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One thing the book does (although a bit too flourish for my taste) is to
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destroy all those dreams of a perfect life: Oh, you're out of your parents
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apartment? Sure, you can have that huge loft Tom Hanks have in "Big", or a
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nice apartment like the ones in "Friends"? NOT! Oh, sharing with someone you
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go fine? It will be like "Friends", every day! SIKE!
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So, yeah, it is not that bad, but it is not a dream.
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But instead of saying "Nope" all the time, the book tries to give some advice
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on how to survive this dark times. I think it missed the point sometimes; for
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example: dripping faucet? Hire someone. Why not buy two, play with one till
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you understand how it fits and then try the other one. Sure, hiring someone
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and watching over their shoulder how to do is something I do all this time --
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I'm not kidding here -- but you can also experiment yourself. You'd pay
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double, but if you manage to understand how things work, you'll have a spare
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and if you break it, at least you got it shouldn't work.
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