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Thinking Differently with Matthew Barzun

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

I Was a Loaner as a Kid and I Lived Alone at Age 11

"I was a kid with a d d. And wasn't a thing back then, so it wasn't diagnosible," he says of his childhood struggles. "So from the age of 11, five out of seven days you raised self to that sort of story i tell myself." The author's parents got divorced when he was 11 and he lived alone in cape cod for three months after they were reunited. He talks about finding happiness by teaching others how to find their happy place.

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