Experience is a great teacher. In Shorten the Learning Curve, the author shares many of the experiences (or “Aha! Moments”) that taught him to deal with life’s encounters and to grow from them. In his seven decades worth, he has learned that success is not where you are, but where you are relative to where you began. He engaged others to write stories about the experiences they had that taught them a lesson that they carried with them.

If you internalize even a few of the experiences described in this book’s stories and remember their lessons, you will shorten your learning curve on the road to success. Will there be failures, disappointments, and mistakes? Of course! At the same time, you will also discover successes, truths, realizations, triumphs, achievements, and a feeling of forward movement and progress.

Take to heart the stories in this book and recognize their message. They may well put you on the path you seek.

Never stop LEARNING because life never stops TEACHING!

Hunter S. Thompson wrote: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a ride!”