Lessons Learned from Season of Life by Jeffery Marx

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Season of Life by Jeffery Marx is a motivational book that I recommend for anybody. I really liked this book because this book is more about life than it is about football and it teaches you how to really become a man.
Season of life is a book that when you read it you really won’t ever forget it. Basically, the book is about Joe Ehrmann (A retired Defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts) and Biff Poggi coaching boys to become men fearless men. They coach them not to really listen to what anybody says about them and to just be themselves. Additionally they tell them to treat others like everyone else even if there not athletic or if they have low self-esteem in themselves. Likewise in the book Joe’s brother Billy died of leukemia that’s really when Joe started to look back at his life and he wanted the men of the future to be fearless men not men selfish men. When Joe’s brother died Joe became a minister and a high school football coach so he could teach men about life. Additionally from that day on Joe taught the young men how to be fea...

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