人生由我 – A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success by Maye Musk

她15岁次登台，22岁结婚，31岁成为破产的单身母亲，随后辗转于3个国家的多个城市开展自己的事业，独立培养出3个出色的子女，同时获得了两个硕士学位。60多岁的她重返模特舞台，在头发变白的时候走红，69岁时，她的形象在美国时代广场独占4个广告牌。她是72岁的“网红”，是众多女性眼中的励志偶像，也许她最出名的标签是“硅谷钢铁侠”、特斯拉公司创始人埃隆·马斯克的母亲，但她更是自己人生的女王，她是梅耶·马斯克。

你很难想象，这样的她也曾因为害怕而多年默默忍受丈夫的家暴，身为令众人艳羡不已的超模却说自己衣品差，在看中名气和年龄的职场圈不断遭遇歧视，拥有成功的后半生但至今仍未遇到可与之共度余生的人。她并不是媒体塑造的“女性代言人”，事实上，就是这种人设给普通人制造了数不清的压力和困惑。这本书展现了一个女性是怎样逐步探索世界和重建自我的。

虽然人生困境重重，但成功的蜕变依然有法可循。梅耶在书中真诚地分享了关于美丽、职场、家庭、教育和健康等人生问题的经历和建议，我们或许无法避免遇到与之相似的困境，但可以像她一样积极应对。世上没有一步到位的解决办法，我们要有足够的常识和制订计划的能力；不必把人生中的每一次改变都精确到细节，可以在问题出现的时候再着手解决；拥有良好的心态，让外表和内心一样“胸有成竹”，不因为爱而羞愧或恐惧，人生由我。

“Warm, honest and true – A Woman Makes a Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice.” (Diane Von Furstenberg)

The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of “living dangerously – carefully”

Maye Musk is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends – and is 71 years old. But things were not always so easy or glamorous – she became a single mom at 31, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry; and established a lifelong career as a respected dietitian, all the while starting over in eight different cities across three countries and two continents. But she made her way through it all with an indomitable spirit and a no-nonsense attitude to become a global success at what she calls the “prime of her life.”

As everyone who follows her obsessively on social media knows, Maye is a fount of frank and practical advice on how the choices you make in every decade can pay off in surprising, exciting ways throughout your life. In A Woman Makes a Plan, Maye shares experiences from her life conveying hard-earned wisdom on career (the harder you work, the luckier you get), family (let the people you love go their own way), health (there is no magic pill), and adventure (make room for discovery, but always be ready for anything). You can’t control all that happens in life, but you can have the life you want at any age. All you have to do is make a plan.

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