7 Hard Truths About Starting Over — pulled directly from the memoir. Real stories. Hard lessons. Every one of them cost me something. Yours free.
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Every plan that collapsed did so at the same place — the moment it got hard. Not because I wasn't smart enough. Because my reason wasn't strong enough.
I left Poland in 1989. The interrogation officer lived in my head for years after I landed in Canada.
Starting over doesn't give you rest. It gives you a different kind of work. The walls changed shape. The effort didn't disappear.
Mathematics is the study of patterns. So is a stuck life. So is a life that keeps moving forward. Same principle.
The night we bought our first home in Toronto, I wanted to walk away from the deal. Years of Polish programming was louder than the obvious future on the other side.
I started writing this book at the stage of life most of my former colleagues are on a dock in Florida. That is not late. That is the season in which I finally had something to say.
I lost my father, then my mother — eight weeks apart. Anyone who tells you that is a gift hasn't lived it. But soil can grow something, if you let it.
A decision that terrifies you. A change you've been postponing. A door you keep walking up to and away from.
A new country, a new career, a new chapter after loss. Starting over when you're not sure what "over" even means.
You know the lid is there. You've been testing it. You want to know if it's real — or just conditioning.
"The message of this book, in one sentence: if I could do what I did, you can do what you need to do — regardless of your current circumstances."
— Bogdan Marzewski
4 pages. 7 truths. Every one pulled from real life. No fluff, no filler.