You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeHarper Collins, 2011 M04 26 - 228 pages 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. |
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... questions are questions we all meet in our lives; they are questions we must all answer in some way. Not with finality, for life is too fluid, too alive for that. So I have been forced to stop and think through some of the questions, to ...
... run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. Hyde Park January, 1960 1 Learning to Learn ONE of the most intriguing questions.
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life Eleanor Roosevelt. 1 Learning to Learn ONE of the most intriguing questions that comes to me Learning to Learn.
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life Eleanor Roosevelt. 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 ...
... questions come to my mind as I read and I can remember now how pleased I was when she would ask me to leave my paper with her and later return it with the comment, “Well thought out, but have you forgotten this or that point?” That was ...