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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 8
... mind given you but to think things out for yourself?” It became a challenge for me to think about all the different sides of a situation and try to find new points that Mlle. Souvestre had not covered, points that had not even been ...
... mind so that it is capable of finding facts as it needs them, train it to learn how to learn. If, 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 ...
... mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the 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 ...
... mind , though she had so long lost the elasticity of her body . Today , many old people who were young in those days and went to her for advice and understanding still wonder , in a dilemma , what she would have said , what she would ...
... mind to find out as soon as possible how my own government functioned so I would not be embarrassed in this way again . Franklin knew my problem quite well and his eyes twinkled as he gave the answer . He had saved me , but so far as ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life Eleanor Roosevelt Vista previa limitada - 2011 |