Broken Stools
The opposite of humility isn't confidence — it's certainty. Kirk Sheppard has learned this the hard way. Repeatedly.
Learning to be right-sized.
We've all fallen off a stool — metaphorically speaking. Some of us have done it literally. In this collection of fifty-two stories, Kirk explores what happens when life knocks us off our perches and discovers that our most humbling moments often become our best teachers.
From getting rejected twice from counseling school (then earning two degrees anyway) to calling his mother at forty-two for financial help, from watching lightning destroy a teacher's only way home to being inducted into a wrestling Hall of Fame for failing gracefully — these are stories about becoming right-sized in the world.
Neither too big nor too small. Exactly who we are.
This isn't about perfection or false modesty. It's about the radical act of admitting we don't have it all figured out — and discovering that's exactly where wisdom begins.
One story for every week of the year.
Funny, vulnerable and practical stories about failure, humility, relationships, identity and the strange ways life teaches us what actually matters.
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