Everything Harder Than Everyone Else by Jenny Valentish military-memoir John was sometimes uncomfortable with

John was sometimes uncomfortable with the spotlight and for many years struggled to take his career to the heights that those close to him

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only those close to him knew the anxious man who pushed himself to the edge of health and sanity

Despite the contempt

Everything Harder Than Everyone Else by Jenny Valentish military-memoir John was sometimes uncomfortable withIts part of human nature to test our limits. But what happens when this part comes to define us? When Jenny Valentish wrote a memoir about addiction, she noticed that people who treated drug taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit such as marathon running upon getting sober. What stayed constant was the need to push their boundaries. Everything Harder Than Everyone Else follows people doing the things that most couldnt,