You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeHarper Collins, 2011 M04 26 - 228 páginas From one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, a wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. One of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this simple guide to living a fuller life—a powerful volume of enduring commonsense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, she takes readers on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity, civic stewardship, and more. Her keys to a fulfilling life? Learning to Learn • Fear—the Great Enemy • The Uses of Time • The Difficult Art of Maturity • Readjustment is Endless • Learning to Be Useful• The Right to Be an Individual • How to Get the Best Out of People •Facing Responsibility • How Everyone Can Take Part in Politics • Learning to Be a Public Servant A crucial precursor to better-living guides like Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening or Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, as well as political memoirs such as John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, the First Lady’s illuminating manual is a window into Eleanor Roosevelt herself and a trove of timeless wisdom that resonates in any era. |
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... experience that I had hardly guessed existed. This, I think, is one of the most effective and rewarding forms of education. The interest is there, lurking somewhere in another person. You have only to seek for it. It will make every ...
... experience are the qualities that stimulate a desire to know about life and to understand it . They provide the zest that makes it possible to meet any situation as an adventure . Without that spirit of adventure , life can be a dull ...
... experience of trying to talk out a problem and discovering that our chosen confidant is giving us only divided attention , or frankly thinking of something else , or waiting to get in a word about some problem of his or her own . But ...
... experience and welcomed it. Without those qualities she could never have managed to continue to grow and to increase in depth of understanding. Nor could she have been, as she was, in spite of crippling handicaps, a happy woman. Her ...
... experience . And there's one strange thing : when you are genuinely interested in one thing , it will always lead to something else . It is here , I think , that the most important phase of education appears , in the capacity to learn ...
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