Jay Blades
Autor von Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
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Jay Blades found fame on TV's Money for Nothing and The Repair Shop, but behind the scenes is a breathtaking tale of triumph over adversity. Overcoming homelessness, an absent father, crippling dyslexia, racism, police brutality and a breakdown, Jay's positivity, pragmatism and kindness shine mehr anzeigen through these pages and show that with care and love, anything can be mended. weniger anzeigen
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- Hackney, London, England, UK
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He and I are the same age so some cultural touchstones are the same but we had such different lives.
He's dyslexic and he didn't get any help in school, actually his schooling seemed designed to create an angry youth. He was bullied and beaten up for his race and his background; he's a man from a single parent background and while she did what she could there's only so much she could at the time.He came out with his fists up and no academic qualifications, and honestly his teachers seemed to be phoning it in. Various coincidences put him in places to learn to to interact with others and how to be a better person step by step, often from nothing at all. He admits to his own parenting and relationship issues but he keeps trying to be better and to uplift others, particularly kids that look like they're going to be where he was as an angry young man.
He didn't find out that he was dyslexic until he was in his 30s while studying Criminology and Philosophy and he's made friends along the way that help him be him and one of the people he's made friends with has been himself. He admits that he now has friends who can see when he's struggling and will help him realise it and find the help he needs.
I found the read interesting, Jay has found family in a lot of places and he seems to be trying to ensure that people around him find theirs. He also isn't very self-pitying and maybe a little judgemental to himself but overall he comes across as a good person, astounded that he's an MBE and happy with himself.… (mehr)