All Were Born Naked. . . No Skills. . . No Talents. . . No Intellectual Gifts [Paperback]

John Larson (Author)

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The author began his career as a medical stenographer. He also spent a short period as a liaison officer for the American Red Cross assisting first World War veterans at a Veterans Administration hospital to qualify and file claims for the medical care and disability compensation.Later after working as a clerk in the Department of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in Washington, D.C., and attending George Washington University, he became the assistant to the Station Surgeon at the Station Hospital at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, during World War II. Following the years there in hospital administration, he launched a career in advertising.The spur for his book and the title, 'All are BORN NAKED' evolved from the author's observations and associations over a period of 30 years within the advertising and medical communities. As a corporate management executive--director of advertising and marketing services--he excelled in writing and design. He has received many awards and some of advertising's highest. Included were CLIO award in creative television, a national award for design of the 'Best Package of the Year,' as well as awards from various advertising clubs and art directors organizations. Over the years he had an intimate, participating study of the individuality among creative people ... artists, designers, and writers. He had the responsibility for a time for the recruitment and training of university graduate candidates for corporate positions.The inside view of personalities and skills provided a rare grasp of the behavior and characteristics that did so clearly distinguish any one individual from all the others. And, during the past 18 years since his retirement, he has devoted his time to study and research as well as exploring the lives of hundreds of the famous and infamous in history and today. All of this an insatiable quest for reasons to deny or bear out the accuracy of impressions and inferences drawn from his study of personalities during his career.The re

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (April 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158721234X
• ISBN-13: 978-1587212345
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,071,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Obvious and circular, July 25, 2011

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This review is from: All Were Born Naked. . . No Skills. . . No Talents. . . No Intellectual Gifts (Paperback)

Basically this is an opinion. I thought it might have some science behind it, but it's essentially a philosophical argument. Bottom line is the author does not believe genetics have much to do about anything, and we are simply the products of freewill, and environment. Freewill, and environment are true, but to deny genetics is ridiculous; I will not argue that here. The problem I have with this book is that the argument for freewill, and environment is largely circumstantial. It's the classic praise the person that made it, and something is wrong with the person who did not; classic simpleton thinking, and probably based in some ego. Of course, nothing is mentioned about how the person in the wrong environment is suppose to leap beyond the circumstance. No real insight in this book, than the obvious; at the end it says nothing. There is no discussion about why people succeed, and some don't.