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I'm not a sales guy but there's one great book on sales which I think everyone great with sales has read.

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger.

It's old but it is a story of an ordinary guy that managed to do remarkable things. While still being a good guy.

I recommend this one a lot, but it really is my favorite: How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger. It doesn't require very much mental horsepower to apply the techniques that he presents to interpersonal and professional relationships, even if you're not in direct sales.

I agree with your advice SolidCopper.

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

How to Win Friends and Influence People

What about a part-time job?

What about offering to work for free just for the opportunity to learn something new with someone around town?

Learn legal research?

Get a dog?

Start a business?

Learn to grow cannabis? I'm not saying to illegally grow it. I'm saying that you can read and learn, and that there is a market for skilled growers catering to the medical cannabis sector, especially, for example, those that suffer from epilepsy and want to try high CBD strains. So you could study up on all this, and then apply what you have learned after you graduate and have a good career helping others.

Prepare for the ASVAB and go to the Navy's Nuclear School?

Go outside and run.

Let books be your friends.

What I learned was that the folks that I thought were true friends in high school were not.

Spend your time on self-improvement.

Learn new things.

Learn new skills.

PT. Exercise.

Learn. Read. Read. Read. Read.

"When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and the ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a good book."--Christopher Morley

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."--Charles W. Eliot

"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of 'friends' to guide intellectual and emotional growth."--Carroll D. Gray

"A book that [is] fitly chosen is a life long friend."--Douglas Jerrold

"Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends."--Helen Keller

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx

If I could be a senior in high school again, in good health...and know what I know now...I would seek out older men and women. I would ask for their advice. I would read and learn.

I graduated as high school valedictorian and had 7 high school superlatives. Once you're out of high school, this "friend" stuff in high school, it's not the same.

Ricky Gervais writes: "... I suppose I was cursed with some early success. I was smart. The smartest kid in my class. Then the smartest kid in the next class and so on. I actually used to pride myself on the fact that I didn't have to even try to pass exams. This is my greatest regret. It's a
disgusting attitude and potentially a waste of a life. Writing and directing "The Office" was the first thing I ever tried my hardest at. The reward was revelatory.

At 40 I was addicted. Not to success. I was addicted to trying my hardest. That's the reward in itself. It's what life's about. The struggle. It's the only way you can be proud. You can't be proud of
luck.

Born clever? So what? What are you going to do with it? Your best, I hope, and no less."