Mike McVey

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Mike is Currently Reading

Mike McVey is currently reading

There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE

by Brian Gewirtz

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The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual

by Matt Besser

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read in August 2021

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Mike’s Notes & Highlights

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Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel according to Johnny Cash by Richard Beck

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“His heart was so expansive and his mind so finely tuned that he could contain both darkness and light, love and trouble, fear and faith, wholeness and shatteredness, old-school and postmodern, the sacred and the silly, God and the Void. He ...more

Mike’s Quotes

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

tags: perseverance

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“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

tags: desire, psychology, self-awareness, understanding

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“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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