You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeFrom 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. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the world’s best loved and most admired public figures, offers a wise and intimate guide on how to overcome fears, embrace challenges as opportunities, and cultivate civic pride: You Learn by Living. A crucial precursor to better-living guides like Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening or Robert Persig’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 of personal exploration resonates with the timeless power to change lives. |
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You can understand it only if you have arrived at some knowledge of yourself, a
knowledge based on a deliberately and usually painfully acquired self-discipline,
which teaches you to cast out fear and frees you for the fullest experience of the ...
... instrument which we can use to acquire information at any time we need it. I
remember certain milestones in learning how to learn. As far as training my
memory was concerned, that began very young. I loved poetry and I would often
learn it ...
In the first place, we have to face the fact that no one can acquire all there is to
learn about any subject. What is essential is to train the 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 ...
After a while I had acquired a certain technique for picking their brains. It was not
only great fun but I began to get an insight into many subjects I could not possibly
have learned about in any other way. And, best of all, I discovered vast fields of ...
It is here, I think, that the most important phase of education appears, in the
capacity to learn from each thing you see, from each fact you acquire, from each
experience you have, from each person you meet. And nothing you learn,
however ...
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User Review - OstkUser770807 - Overstock.comIf only we had people who cared like this lady did she was beautiful human. Read full review
At the end of You Learn by Living, Eleanor Roosevelt writes that she feels that her book advice for personal growth and fulfillment boils down to a handful of principles. It is always helpful to successfully complete smaller steps that carry you gradually towards a larger goal. There are more clearly defined objectives, it will be defined between steps achieved and made visible. that motivates incredible.
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| Title | You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life |
| Author | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2011 |
| ISBN | 006207850X, 9780062078506 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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