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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... ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person. Book education cannot accomplish this by itself. It needs the supplement and the stimulus of the exchange of ...
... to begin going through the alphabet. A is for ants. “Mr. Jones, are you interested in the life of the ant?” He might not be interested in the ant but at least he was startled and amused. At the time the idea entertained me, though I ...
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life Eleanor Roosevelt. At the time the idea entertained me, though I doubted that it would ever serve my purpose. But a time came when the alphabet saved me from sitting in utter silence throughout a ...
... ideas, we will be able to welcome the new flow of thought from wherever it comes, not resisting it; weighing and ... idea—often felt that they had arrived at terminal knowledge on government, history, economics, science, social values ...
... ideas, new experience. I think a child is particularly fortunate if he grows up in a family where his imagination can be fed, where there are a variety of intellectual interests, where someone loves music, or does amateur painting, or ...
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