The advice book for people who hate advice books—jam-packed with jokes and genuine reflections from a man whose most serious life advice is not to take life so seriously.

Cappy McGarr has figured it out: Nobody has it all figured out.

In a world of advice books claiming secrets to success, Let the Dough Rest reveals the biggest secret: They’re all made up.

Okay, not all of them. But a lot of them!

Between fifty years of marriage, a career in finance, parenthood and grandparenthood, decades of service to the Kennedy Center, an Emmy nomination, and as a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Cappy does have advice.

But he also knows: sometimes, it’s best to let the dough rest. Take a beat. Stay loose. And don’t take life, or yourself, too seriously.

Cappy has plenty to say. But it’s okay if you laugh—with him or at him—while he says it.

In his experience, nobody really knows how to reach the mountaintop and achieve enlightenment. Maybe accepting that, and letting the dough rest, is the first step toward reaching that mountaintop.