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He Won't Listen if You Tell Him "No"
Tell Me No, I Dare You! A guide for living a heroic life by Scott Silverman ISBN: 978-1-4392-1860-0
by Vic Chapman
Scott Silverman should have won an award for being a world-class pain in the ass. He was a troublemaker, a hooligan, a prankster, an addict on drugs, booze and God knows what else and he was almost a suicide. Somewhere along the way, Silverman bottomed out from the bad choices he made and did something else—like start a nationally acclaimed non-profit in San Diego that teaches people like he once was that they have worth, meaning and that their lives can be successful and that they can make their dreams happen.
Silverman is the founder and director of Second Chance, a program he started in order to realize some dreams of his own. Perhaps Silverman would have been a general of an army in another time, or perhaps a politician who could have held high office in another. He started as a frustrated kid with a built in rebellious streak that he couldn’t control—one that allows him to empathize with others who have the same outlook and the same kinds of problems.
Tell Me is a lot more than the average pick yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps kind of cheerleading harangue. The author has been there and done that and speaks from experience of how tough life can be. His book offers some insight into what life is like when one is on the uppers and the author reminds the reader that as long as one is alive, warm and vertical, there is a way out of the hole one has dug for one's self. Heroism is indeed living your own life on your own terms, so long as you own the terms and they don’t own you. For many people, it takes time and effort to discover that difference. Reading Silverman condenses it all for those who need it and those who care for those who need it. Read it soon.
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