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Quiz: Tom Cruise – or self-help manual?

Tom Cruise interviews tend to be packed full of helpful maxims about how best to live your life – but can you spot the difference between Tom's words of wisdom, and those found between the pages of a self-help book?With
  
  


  1. “The important thing with a child is that you love them, you protect them and you help them to grow and find out who they are.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

  2. “I don't care who you are, life has challenges.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser

  3. “Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out by Pandora Poikilos

  4. “If you don’t go after what you want; you could spend your entire life settling for what you can get.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Against All Odds I Can Be by Mo Stegall

  5. “Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Life, the Truth, and Being Free by Steve Maraboli

  6. “Will is a skill.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams by Jillian Michaels

  7. “When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free by Stephen Richards

  8. “Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. Boost Your Self Esteem by Stephen Richards

  9. “Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection".”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. God's Favor - Breath Of Heaven by Michele Woolley

  10. “Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.”

    1. Tom Cruise

    2. When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy by Manuel J. Smith

Solutions

1:A, 2:A, 3:B, 4:B, 5:A, 6:B, 7:A, 8:B, 9:B, 10:A

Scores

  1. 5 and above.

    Not a great score. Oh well.

  2. 6 and above.

    Good score!

  3. 10 and above.

    Perfect score!<br><br> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p6gqxppH1r38k77o1_500.gif" width="250" height="184"/>

 

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