About the Author

Michael Gates Gill was born with all the material advantages that America can offer, with an acclaimed New Yorker staff writer for a father, and spent his childhood surrounded by famous intellectuals and socially connected people. After graduating from Yale he was given a job with the help of a classmate as a Creative Director at J. Walter Thompson, the most successful and largest advertising agency in the world. Then after 25 years of devoting his life to work, he was suddenly fired and his life at the top of the American establishment became derailed. He found himself broke, his marriage dissolving, learned he needed a brain operation, and was desperately looking for work to help support his five children. Then he found a job at Starbucks where he still works as a barista.

Reviews

'Articulate, charming'. The New York Times 'A great lesson in finding your highest self in the unlikeliest of places -- proof positive that there is no way to happiness -- rather, happiness is the way.' Wayne Dyer

Ivy League-primed career. Big house. Loving family. Gill lost it all, then took a job at Starbucks that taught him the value of humility and hard work. Starbucks will help promote, Tom Hanks got the film rights, seven countries bought in, and Gill will continue to work at Starbucks. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

'Articulate, charming'. The New York Times 'A great lesson in finding your highest self in the unlikeliest of places -- proof positive that there is no way to happiness -- rather, happiness is the way.' Wayne Dyer