Table of Contents
Foreword: Life — Don’t Sweat It
Prologue: The Shot
Introduction
The Challenge
The Nature of Attachment
The Empty Threat
Bridging the Racial Divide
“…And Nothing but the Truth”
Worse and Worser
The Zen Stripper
Testing the Limits
A Short Story
The Ticking Clock
The Stoned Wall
The Marvels of Cynicism
Kiss Quest
Passing the Ultimate Buck
The Impostor Syndrome
15-Zip
Hedonic Greed
The Shell Game
Empathic Failure
Tincture of Time
It’s Just a Four-Letter Word
Uncool Effort
The Booby Prize
Obviously
Inverted Self-Esteem
When Intuition Goes Awry
The Prozac Dilemma
Pseudo-Worries
“He Just Doesn’t Understand”
Lying or Crazy?
“We Hold These Truths…”
Biofeedback
Journey B. Goode
To Love, Honor, and Betray
Zorro Goes Home
Perfectly Flawed
The Third Act
Final Request
Epilogue: The Shot — Redux
Appendix: “The Lessons”
P.S.
Acknowledgments
About the Author