Fuss: The Mess We Live

Fuss: The Mess We Live is Elliot Essman's current writing project. For further information, please contact Elliot Essman through the Elliot Essman Public Speaking Training Home Page.

Fuss will be an attempt to distill Elliot's philosophy of everyday life. Elliot believes that most of the time, most of our lives, instead of living genuinely, we fuss. He will examine the phenomenon of what he calls disingenuous "sideways" living as it relates to such human endeavors as:

  • Human relationships

  • Government

  • Business

  • Our homes and home life

  • Marriage and divorce

  • Children

  • Education

  • Wanabees

  • Celebrity

  • American Sentimentality

  • Spoken and written communications

  • Careers

  • Investing and finance

  • Travel and recreation

  • Cooking and entertaining

  • and anything else his mind decides to latch onto.

It is important to differentiate Fuss: The Mess We Live from Elliot's other books.

  • Building Yourself: Putting Your Success Together One Piece At A Time is Elliot's pragmatic guide to putting together the skills anyone, particularly a young person, needs to succeed in the world. Written in 1994, it has now been revised and is available in complete form on the web.

  • Human Action is Elliot's general philosophy of human achievement. Available in full on the web.

  • You Have A Voice distills Elliot's 25 years of experience as a public speaking trainer and coach. In progress.

  • Life In The USA is Elliot's complete guide to American life for immigrants, visitors and students. Over 600 individual pages available in full on the web.