Signing with Arnold Schwarzenegger for BE USEFUL @ BN 5th Ave, NYC

**PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THESE GUIDELINES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO CHANGING COVID-19 REQUIREMENTS**

Join on Wednesday, October 11th at 12:00 PM ET, as we welcome author, , for a signing and photo-op to celebrate the release of . The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone

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**Due to Covid-19, masks are highly recommended.**

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• Barnes & Noble reserves the right to make new rules and orders in its sole discretion with regard to COVID-19 at any time and any person not abiding by the Barnes & Noble directives will be refused entrance or directed to leave the premises.

• Photo Line Admission - $30.48: (Signing Line Admission + one copy of BE USEFUL): A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• • One copy of
  • Admission into the signing line with

• Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.

• This is a signing event. The author will NOT personalize the purchased book.

• Photos will be taken.

• No memorabilia will be signed.

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• Any gifts for Arnold Schwarzenegger will be collected prior to the signing line.

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• • Have not had any contact in the last 14 days with a confirmed COVID- 19 patient.
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ABOUT BE USEFUL:

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life (on-sale October 10, 2023) is written with his uniquely earnest, always honest, powerful voice. It takes readers on an inspirational tour through the toolkit Arnold has lived by for over sixty years. A toolkit for a meaningful life.

Arnold’s stratospheric success in almost everything he has done happened as part of a process: clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. The same tools are within anyone’s reach and can be put to work in service of whatever fulfilling future we want for ourselves.

If BE USEFUL sounds relentlessly positive, it is. It is an answer to the pessimism, disconnection and loss of purpose Arnold saw building over the past few years, especially among young people. It takes aim at the forces incentivized to keep people feeling helpless, making them angrier, feeding them lies, and inflaming their grievances, and replaces it with the message that usefulness, self-sufficiency, and positivity are the best weapons to fight unhappiness and apathy.

The tools Arnold shares in the book all come from his successes and failures. They involve knowing where you want to go and how you’re going to get there, as well as having the willingness to do the work and the ability to communicate to the people you care about that the journey you want to bring them on is worth the effort. They include the capacity to shift gears when the journey hits a roadblock, and the ability to keep an open mind and learn from your surroundings to find new ways through. And most important, once you get where you’re trying to go, they demand that you acknowledge all the help you had along the way and that you give back accordingly – that you find your own way to “Be Useful.”

ABOUT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER:

Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, businessman, philanthropist, bestselling author, and politician. He served as the thirty-eighth governor of California.

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