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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As far as training my memory was concerned, that began very young. I loved
poetry and I would often learn it while I was dressing and undressing. When I was
quite young, I had a French teacher who made us learn by heart a good part of
the ...
The old system was to serve two purposes: to discipline the mind and to provide
young people with a background of knowledge about the past, history,
philosophy, and the arts. More recently, the influence of Dewey has been
powerful in ...
Every now and then, I receive rather pathetic letters from young women who have
married men who either have come from a different background or have climbed
fast in their professional careers and belong to cultural worlds in which the ...
... years of English and French education. On the whole it was good education, in
some ways almost on a college level. But it was different. When I came home I
was aware that there were great gaps in my knowledge. I married very young and
...
This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself,
but he will have had a sense of participation in finding the answer. But if you
brush aside the eager question, the only way the young child has of learning to ...
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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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