title: Do the Next Right Thing: Surviving Life's Crises
author: Frank O'Dea
description: <b>Frank O&rsquo;Dea</b> is an entrepreneur and founding partner of the Second Cup coffee chain and several other successful businesses. He is a philanthropist, a sought-after public speaker, and the author of <i>When All You Have Is Hope. </i>O&rsquo;Dea lives in Ottawa with his family.
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  Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](part0004.html#filepos4655)
  
  [Copyright Page](part0005.html#filepos4811)
  
  [PREFACE](part0006.html#filepos9167)
  
    
  
  [For the New Intellectual](part0007.html#filepos12806)
  
  [We the Living](part0008.html#filepos140632)
  
  [Anthem](part0009.html#filepos147044)
  
  [The Fountainhead](part0010.html#filepos151884)
  
  [Atlas Shrugged](part0011_split_000.html#filepos198640)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For the New Intellectual
  
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  When a man, a business corporation or an entire society is approaching
  bankruptcy, there are two courses that those involved can follow: they can
  evade the reality of their situation and act on a frantic, blind, range-of-
  the-moment expediency—not daring to look ahead, wishing no one would name the
  truth, yet desperately hoping that something will save them somehow—or they
  can identify the situation, check their premises, discover their hidden assets
  and start rebuilding.
  
  America, at presen