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Smart, Stupid and Sixty

By: Nigel Marsh
Narrated by: Nigel Marsh
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 Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job.

In Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel wrote about falling off the corporate hamster wheel and surviving. Now that he’s approaching sixty, he can’t help but notice it’s been a while since he was asked onto that wheel by other hamsters. One day he reads that a graduate trainee who used to work for him in London is now a global CEO with an office on the top floor of a skyscraper in New York. Nigel, by contrast, is wearing a dressing gown and sitting at his writing desk in a dank storage room under his garage in Sydney. It’s enough to give anyone a moment of self-doubt.

Could it be that Nigel’s most successful days are behind him? Or is conventional success simply that – conventional success? And is it possible that his happiest days lie ahead?

In his memoir for his sixth decade on earth, Nigel ponders ageing well, sex, parenting adult children, his parents’ passing, and the secret to living a happy life. By turns entertaining, thought-provoking, poignant and life-affirming, Smart, Stupid and Sixty is a celebration of the third trimester as a privilege to be enjoyed rather than a sentence to be endured.©2022 Nigel Marsh (P)2022 Penguin Random House Australia Personal Development Personal Success Success
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Being also only way to (pretty close too 😉) Smart, Stupid & Sixty I could relate. I also learnt that just maybe, I am not on my own, and we are all dealing.. Thank you Nigel.

Really Really enjoyed this lovely listen.

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From fat forty and fired to smart stupid and sixty Nigel Marsh thank you for making us see that life is a fabulous journey and that the best is, possibly, yet to come.
I will listen again as there were some true wake up calls along the listening
Thank you Nigel

Best audible for a long time

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As I enter my third trimester in June it was comforting to hear Nigel’s take on what can be a scary transition

Loved it!

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Nigel maintains the high standard set in his previous books for discussing some of the big issues we confront as we traverse mid-life but in a most entertaining and humorous manner. Thoroughly recommend this latest offering.

Entertaining and Thought Provocating

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I found myself living almost every example Nigel shared. I’m not quite 60, but wanted to hear what he may have done differently in his 50’s so I could take heed. Very funny, at times emotional, and very real!!

So true!!!!

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