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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Knowing my own deficiencies, I made a game of trying to make people talk about
whatever they were interested in and learning as much as I could about their
particular subject. After a while I had acquired a certain technique for picking their
...
We all know the frustrating experience of trying to talk out a problem and
discovering that our chosen confidant is giving us only divided attention, or
frankly thinking of something else, or waiting to get in a word about some
problem of his or her ...
To this day the boys continue to argue with each other, finding a mutual stimulus
in the exchange of ideas and opinions. Good talk, indeed, is important not only as
a part of family life but as a part of education. A child from that kind of family life ...
Along with the stimulus of good talk, of the education that comes almost
unconsciously from casual discussion of books read, from a gradual knowledge
of music heard as part of daily life, there is also the great value of surrounding a
child with ...
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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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