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What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life
What I Learned When I Almost Died How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life Author:Chris Licht What do you learn when your brain goes pop? — Chris Licht had always been ambitious. When he was only nine years old, he tracked down an NBC correspondent while on vacation to solicit advice for a career in television. At eleven, he began filming himself as he delivered the news. And by the time he was thirty-five, he landed his dream job: a fast... more »-paced, demanding spot at the helm of MSNBC's Morning Joe -- one of the most popular shows on cable TV. He had become a real-life Jerry Maguire: hard-charging, obsessively competitive, and willing to sacrifice anything to get it done. He felt invincible. Then one day Chris heard a pop in his head, followed by a whoosh of blood and crippling pain. Doctors at the ER said he had suffered a near-deadly brain hemorrhage. Chris's life had almost been cut short, and he had eight long days in a hospital bed to think about it. What I Learned When I Almost Died tells the story of what happened next.« less