Successful executive turned new-age philosopher, Max Rhodes outlines his unique insights and action plan for modern living in this charming book of story telling and rules-to-live-by for readers of all ages. Jewish immigrants from Germany to the United States, Max and his family are the quintessential American success story, finding fortune, love and heartache in their adopted country. His inventive ways for coping with the fast-paced life in Los Angeles and his creative recommendations for achieving a harmonious family are the basis for his stories of overcoming fears and doubts. Keeping Your Head When Others Doubt You is a narration of a life well lived amidst the challenges of modern society.
Author’s Letter
I have written all my life, habitually making notes in my little notebook and turning these into small stories on the computer. Sometimes I worked from home, sometimes at the office. More than 20 years ago, at age 64, I decided to put the stories into some logical order, but it wasn’t until 2008, when I showed them to my publisher friend, that the works started to take shape. As I shared more and more stories from the drawerful of papers, she encouraged me to write a book about my family and about my philosophy of life. I appreciated her patience in helping with the yearlong project of organizing and editing my voluminous papers and hundreds of family photos. As for me, I really got a kick out of it.
Seeing my words in print will come as a great surprise to my family. They have no idea how I’ve spent my Friday afternoons for the last year or that at age 85 I am now pretty good on the computer, have a working understanding of the internet and have launched my own website. So you see, I have planned for some time to leave a written history for my children that would give them an idea of how my life evolved. I hope they think this book is representative of a life well lived. I wish the same for them. I hope you enjoyed reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I hope you share my philosophy, that a written family history is a better remembrance than a gravestone.
Max Rhodes
