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The Art Of Reinventing Yourself… Or Anything Else

The Three Step Bridge Technique

Barry Davret
5 min readJan 28, 2019
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I’m about to admit something that will irk every academic who reads this.

It was my last semester of undergraduate school. A terrifying question consumed me.

How can I coast through my last semester and exploit my waining carefree life of navel-gazing by day and cheap beer drinking by night?

I signed up for a few notoriously easy classes. The History of Rock N Roll was a favorite for graduating seniors. You can guess why.

The class met in the evening once per week. It finished up at 8:30 PM. What could be better? You listen to some music for two and a half hours, grab a slice of pizza and hit the bars. Isn’t that why we have higher education?

I didn’t know it at the time, but a new professor had taken over The History of Rock N Roll class. It was no longer the designated time-killer for graduating seniors looking to bag three easy credits.

The professor made a point of acknowledging the reputation of this course on the first day of class. He further stated that it would be a challenging experience.

It Was A Blessing

A few of my friends dropped the course the next day. I stuck around. I don’t…

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Barry Davret
Barry Davret

Written by Barry Davret

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