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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Of course, no one is equipped with such wisdom. ... When one attempts to set
down in bald words any answers one has found to life problems, there is a great
risk of appearing to think ... Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes
.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices
one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned,
there is much I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. But this, at least, I believe
with ...
ONE of the most intriguing questions that comes to me in the mail is: “How did
you plan your career and how did you prepare for it?” I always feel perfectly
inadequate to answer this because I never planned a career and never prepared
for it.
Our requirement was to do our reading and then write a paper on the assignment
. The English girls were apt to remember what she had said and repeat it in their
papers. I can still see her, as one of the girls was reading her paper aloud, ...
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 ...
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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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