Miss Phillips, You Were Wrong

A teacher told a struggling boy he would never amount to anything. Forty years later he wrote her a book. This is it.Peter J. Daniels never passed a single grade at school. He left the classroom branded a failure and was still virtually illiterate at twenty-six, laying bricks for a living. He went on to build businesses across six continents, address more live audiences than perhaps any other Australian, and found the World Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies.This book is his reply to the woman who wrote him off, and it can become yours. Chapter by chapter, Daniels takes apart the verdicts other people pass on us: they cannot predict the future, they hold no final authority, and they rarely understand the problem they are judging.Inside you will learn to:See why no one can predict your futureRefuse the false authority of other people's verdictsUnderstand the difference between judgement and truthRecognise the uniqueness that critics cannot seeTurn every rejection into fuel for the road aheadRejection is real and it wounds. But it is an opinion, not a sentence. Their verdict was an opinion. Your life is the reply.

A teacher told a struggling boy he would never amount to anything. Forty years later he wrote her a book. This is it.Peter J. Daniels never passed a single grade at school. He left the classroom branded a failure and was still virtually illiterate at twenty-six, laying bricks for a living. He went on to build businesses across six continents, address more live audiences than perhaps any other Australian, and found the World Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies.This book is his reply to the woman who wrote him off, and it can become yours. Chapter by chapter, Daniels takes apart the verdicts other people pass on us: they cannot predict the future, they hold no final authority, and they rarely understand the problem they are judging.Inside you will learn to:See why no one can predict your futureRefuse the false authority of other people's verdictsUnderstand the difference between judgement and truthRecognise the uniqueness that critics cannot seeTurn every rejection into fuel for the road aheadRejection is real and it wounds. But it is an opinion, not a sentence. Their verdict was an opinion. Your life is the reply.