![]() ![]() “It was packed with people carrying these boxes. “I was on the train in Washington in the middle of the day and, where it would normally be empty, this train was packed with the first wave of 50,000 people who lost their jobs at Citibank,” Gardner recalls. That feeling of hopelessness is something he is intimately familiar with. He saw it first hand when running his brokerage firm in the US when the financial crisis struck. With the book written in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, Gardner’s insights will prove useful in this particular tumultuous period, in which the ongoing pandemic has already caused mass unemployment across various sectors. Gardner will be detailing his experiences further on Sunday, May 10, during a session streamed on the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair's YouTube page at 10pm. Where The Pursuit of Happyness traced the discovery of those valuable life lessons, Start Where You Are finds him synthesising these ideas in a book that offers a road map for those feeling lost in their careers and personal lives. Written with Miles Davis memoirist Quincy Troupe, Gardner is unflinching in detailing his faults as he tries to find a way out of dire straits.Īs it turns out, the impetus he needed came after the following insights: find acceptance in the past, focus on the challenges ahead and move forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chaker Khazaal launches Candle of Hope initiative to spread hope ![]()
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