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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... later when I was in a French school in England. The French mistress had us listen to her read a French poem, of perhaps eight lines, and repeat it after the first reading. At first I could not do it, but gradually I was able to manage ...
... later return it with the comment, “Well thought out, but have you forgotten this or that point?” That was an imaginative method of education and most valuable. We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life ...
... later on, a child must acquire a foreign language he should have a background of training to enable him to sit down and concentrate on mastering the language. If he must do research, he should have discipline and training in how to do ...
... later in the north of Scotland when we went to stay in the Dower House up in the Highlands with old Mrs. Ferguson and her son Hector . They asked me to open the flower show . I , who had never spoken five words in public , was horrified ...
... later on to imagine what other people are like and what they think and feel. It helps to keep you curious, anxious to understand what is going on around you. Of course, unless it is checked, imagination can remain only a means of escape ...
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