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Excuse Limit Zero: How to Overcome Your Mistakes and Thrive
Gregory was the worst drug dealer ever. Music was his muse.
He was raised in an upper-middle-class neighborhood by parents who fawned over him and did everything they could to secure a promising future. Yet feeling lost between cultures in his high school, Gregory found himself drifting to the wrong crowd. He lived the tough gangsta-type life selling drugs by day, but would then go home and practice Handel on his violin at night. When selling drugs, burgling, and hanging out with the wrong crowd got him kicked out of his beloved music program, his life spiraled to the bottom.
In Excuse Limit Zero , Gregory Fernandes tells the uncensored story of how he turned around his early troubled life by owning his mistakes, and how he learned to move past regret to discover his role as a mentor, high school choral director, and classically trained musician who has traveled the world sharing his gift.
Gregory’s story teaches us that the path to better starts when we set a personal excuse limit to ZERO.
He was raised in an upper-middle-class neighborhood by parents who fawned over him and did everything they could to secure a promising future. Yet feeling lost between cultures in his high school, Gregory found himself drifting to the wrong crowd. He lived the tough gangsta-type life selling drugs by day, but would then go home and practice Handel on his violin at night. When selling drugs, burgling, and hanging out with the wrong crowd got him kicked out of his beloved music program, his life spiraled to the bottom.
In Excuse Limit Zero , Gregory Fernandes tells the uncensored story of how he turned around his early troubled life by owning his mistakes, and how he learned to move past regret to discover his role as a mentor, high school choral director, and classically trained musician who has traveled the world sharing his gift.
Gregory’s story teaches us that the path to better starts when we set a personal excuse limit to ZERO.
162 pages, Paperback
Published March 2, 2020
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October 28, 2021
Saw this in the book closet at my school and thought it looked inspiring, which it sort of was...but there were also times when Fernandes seemed to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder, and that was a little off-putting. Still, it was cool that Fernandes grew up in a neighboring town to where I teach, and that he now teaches in the town where I grew up. At least there's that.
May 7, 2020
I couldn't put this book down. A great book filled with stories and life lessons. Greg is such an inspiration to all.
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