Why are we here? What are we meant to be doing with our life? How are we to live? Here in one book is what I've learned about real life from the ultimate failure, bankruptcy, to the ultimate survival in life, to be living my dreams in my ideal lifestyle. Packed with often shocking life truths drawn from the likes of Socrates, Gandhi, Walt Disney, George Lucas, Buddha, Gurdjieff, Benjamin Franklin, Lao Tzu and others, this is a compact exploration of how to safely negotiate the minefield of life. Chapters include:* The motivational story of Walt Disney (1901-1966): how to make wishes come true.* What inspired George Lucas to create 'Star Wars'?* Have we been looking for happiness and success in all the wrong places?* Profit from your passion: it's your destiny.* Very ancient Greek philosophers (c.624BC-c.450BC) on life's meaning.* Buddha: "With our thoughts we make the world".* How 2 Taoism beliefs rescued me after bankruptcy.There are 50 chapters with brief, easy to read wisdom on what they didn't tell us about life.We don't really know how to avoid the minefield that is living in the real world, where the emphasis is mostly on how to work hard to earn money and survive in the everyday struggle. But as I have learned, mostly the hard way, in what has been called The School of Hard Knocks', what we were told is not even half the story of survival.