Arnold Schwarzenegger gives his best life advice for all of us

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th governor of California — the septuagenarian superstar can add “Life Coach” to his resumé.In “Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life” (Penguin), Schwarzenegger reveals the key rules, traits, and philosophies that have helped him on his path to happiness and show just how readers too can learn from his experience.“These tools have always worked.

They will always work,” he writes. “I think of them like elements of a blueprint or a road map to a happy, successful, useful life — whatever that means for you.”The title was inspired by the words of wisdom offered by his late father, Gustav, who, whenever the young Arnold sought his counsel invariably replied: “Be useful, Arnold.”“It is the best piece of advice my father gave me, advice that stuck in my brain and never left,” he writes. “I wrote this book to honor those words and pay forward his advice.”At times, when Schwarzenegger reflects on his life growing up in a small rural village in Austria or on the painful break-up of his marriage in 2011, it can be extremely personal, but for the most part, the advice is as blunt and as no-nonsense as you would expect from a bodybuilding legend and all-action movie hero.The chapter titles speak volumes.In “Work Your Ass Off,” he writes there’s no substitute for putting in the time. “Work works.

That’s the bottom line. No matter what you do. No matter who you are.”In “Shut Your Mouth, Open Your Mind,” meanwhile, he reveals just how the lost art of listening has been to the success he has enjoyed and how some of the world’s prominent people, like Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, have influenced his take on life. “Work works.