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by Peter Muir (Author)
What if magic could help you to achieve good health, lasting happiness, true love and personal success? What if you could discover that you have all the magic you need lying dormant inside you and just need to be awakened? Peter Muir's first memoir, Pride and Prejudice Prevail, is written to help teenagers and adults who want to improve their health, happiness, love and success. Its unique advantage is that it is based on the author's actual life experience. You will read extra-ordinary stories of his life's ongoing journey of transformation which started with his acute awareness in childhood of the inequality, prejudice, discrimination and injustice that prevailed in his family, community, society and his country Jamaica. In 1937 he was born, the fifth of eight children, into a family so poor that they could not afford to send him to high school. How then, if not by magic, did he graduate from Harvard University in 1961? The first memoir, Pride and Prejudice Prevail, tells how he overcame poverty, severe illness and tremendous obstacles to achieve a good education, true love, financial security and a long life. It seeks to explain the factors that generated his philosophy, his passion and the goals that propelled him to have amazing love, financial success and lasting happiness, no matter what. Peter Muir's book, Mastaclass Magic, True Journey to Health, Happiness, Love and Success is a series of memoirs that tell of his struggles to overcome bad parenting, poverty, unhappiness, ill health, religious dogma and scarce opportunities for quality education, to achieve the ultimate goal of human beings; self-love, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, financial security and personal success. In Jamaica no government high schools were built until 1961. From 1949 to 1958 his family was unable to pay the fees to send him to high school. Yet he achieved the highest Jamaican grades in the 1955 British Senior Cambridge Examinations and was valedictorian of his high school graduating class. Taking the U.S. SAT examinations, he ranked in the 97th percentile (top 3%) of participants in the world. He won several scholarships, including a full international scholarship to Harvard University, without prior knowledge of its prestige and Number 1 academic ranking in the world. He has given dedicated service to many charitable and community organizations. He also founded a scholarship program in his Rotary Club to assist inner-city youths in Kingston. In Jamaica he was awarded "Volunteer of the Year 2006" for dedicated commitment to community and nation building in association with the United Nations Volunteer Program. It is imperative that you empower your conscious brain to realize that you were born with ability, creativity, and spirituality, to love and be loved, to respect and be respected, to have great relationships, to attract your soul-mate, to be healthy, happy and successful. The good news is that it is not too late to turn your life around and get on the path to your true destiny. "GREAT!!!! I read it nonstop! I have the impression that I have not only read but seen it! I love your detailed report of your childhood and youth from downtown Kingston to Harvard". Ulla Leis "Peter Muir's memoirs relate, with refreshing honesty and candor, tales of personal growth, struggle and determination to triumph over tremendous obstacles. As I read the manuscript I realized how valuable it would be for teenagers and young adults, an inspirational gem to empower them to meet their own challenges with confidence, creativity and courage." Allison Holness McGraham
Author Biography
Peter Muir was born October 1937 into a dysfunctional family located in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. Peter's family was so poor that he occasionally attended elementary school barefoot. From childhood he was a rebel with a passion to rescue his beloved mother from the disrespect and distress she experienced from her mother-in-law and her husband. No public high schools were built in Jamaica until 1961. To fund his high school education Peter started working at 11 years, teaching extra lessons to students at Holy Family Elementary School. In 1952 at age 14 he entered St. George's College (High School) in Form 3B, skipping two forms. He placed first for Jamaica in the 1955 British Senior Cambridge Examinations. In 1958 he won an international scholarship to Harvard University for full tuition, room and board. He worked on campus, cleaning dormitories, serving in dining rooms and in the libraries. Varied work experiences include high school chemistry teacher, chief chemist, new products supervisor, sales manager, marketing manager, restaurant owner, chairman and secretary of Shish Kebab Limited. He was the first member of Sales and Marketing Executives International to be awarded an international scholarship to their Marketing and Sales Management Graduate Program at Syracuse University. In 1964 he fell madly in love with Beverley Hanson at first sight, and wrote her love poems on special occasions throughout their forty years of marriage. The union produced two children, Susan and David whose accomplishments made their parents proud. In 1984, Beverley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and designated medically disabled for more than 20 years of their marriage. He retired before age 50 to concentrate on personal investments and taking care of his wife. He was inducted into the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston and served as a director and treasurer. He founded a scholarship program in his Rotary club for needy inner-city primary and secondary school students. Volunteering in Youth Opportunities Unlimited, he mentored and tutored teenage inner-city boys. He also served on the boards of community, school, professional, sports and service organizations. He was awarded Volunteer of the Year 2006 by the Jamaica International Volunteer Committee in association with the United Nations Volunteer Program in recognition of dedicated commitment to community and nation building through voluntary service.
