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...actually a door re-opening. Keith first penned these commandments during the politically turbulent late 1960s at Harvard, where the government concentrator in Eliot House spent most of his extracurricular time mentoring high school student council members...
Drawing on his life experiences, as well as family and church influences, Keith composed the 10 “paradoxical commandments,” a set of maxims on how to live life optimistically and fully in the face of potential failure and disappointment. “I didn’t think of it as really inventing anything,” he says, “but [rather] describing truths that were out there in a creative way.” Paying his friends minimum wage to read and critique “The Silent Revolution...
After the Rotary Club meeting in 1997, Wally Amos (of chocolate-chip cookie fame) connected Keith to a small Maui company, Inner Ocean Publishing. After he expanded the commandments to a book explaining the meaning of each one, that company not only bought the manuscript but sold its rights to several foreign publishers, as well as Penguin Putnam...
...Keith says he has always found the commandments essential to the way he lives his own life. What has changed during his life is “the [set of] commandments that mean the most to me.” In college, he focused on those dealing with authority, while he now focuses on the first commandment, which demands unconditional love. To college students today, he says his book can be very useful because college is “discovering for yourself what values you hold most dear and what you want to stand for…this book...
...occurred to Keith to type in “paradoxical commandments” on an Internet search engine. He found 40 different people who had used his writings while attributing them to other people. Now he’s found at least 90. They include Rotarians all over the world, a student leadership conference, the Cambodian free speech movement and a group of folksingers called the Roche Sisters, who have penned a song called “Anyway...