Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru 9780762499083, 2021009887, 9780762499090, 0762499095

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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction: The Power of Poe-sitive Thinking
Before You Move On: Poe’s Most Important Poe Tip for You, Plus a Word about the French, Who Got Here First
Part 1: Starting Out
Lesson #1: Lose Early, Lose Often
Lesson #2: Embracing Your Inner Neurotic
Lesson #3: Hubris, or How to Begin Your Life’s Work
Lesson #4: Chip on Your Shoulder? Good!
Lesson #5: Dealing with Rejection (and Vowing Your Revenge)
Part 2: Career and Poe-sonal Finance
Lesson #6: Why Selling Out Is Your First Step to Success
Lesson #7: Fast-Talking Your Way into a “Real” Job
Lesson #8: What Color Is Your Seashell Scam?
Lesson #9: How to Conduct Yourself in a Feud
Lesson #10: Sneaking into the C-Suite
Part 3: Sex and Death
Lesson #11: How to Lose at Love like a Real Romantic
Lesson #12: Pathological Mate Selection
Lesson #13: Poe-creation
Lesson #14: Sliding into Their DMs (and Other Disasters)
Lesson #15: Galaxy Brain, or Making the Most of Your Nervous Breakdown
Part 4: Making Art and Enemies
Lesson #16: How the Creative Sausage Gets Made
Lesson #17: Thriving Through Self-Sabotage
Lesson #18: Trolling as a Fine Art
Lesson #19: Congrats! Attracting Haters Means You Have Arrived
Lesson #20: Composing Your World-Changing Masterpiece
Part 5: The Poe-pose Driven Life: Advanced Techniques
Lesson #21: Personal Growth via Awful, Shocking Vices
Lesson #22: Why You Must Question “Reality”
Lesson #23: The Case for Relentless Pessimism
Lesson #24: Achieving Immortal Renown Through Bad Behavior
Addendum: Twenty-Five Ways to Roast a Raven
Coda: Poe Won by Losing and You Can, Too
Final Quiz: How Poe Are You?
Acknowledgments
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References
About the Author

Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru
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