You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling LifeHarper Collins, 26/04/2011 - 228 páginas 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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... child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life. You will find no courses in which these are taught; and yet they are the qualities that make all learning rewarding, that make all life ...
... children should be taught. The old system was to serve two purposes: to discipline the mind and to provide young people with a background of knowledge ... child with a background of general culture. The essential thing is to relate every.
... child in any direction in which he does not want to go. Unless he enjoys it or sees a value in it, he is not forced to accept the discipline. Both methods have their value. Of course, it is useful to relate the child to his immediate ...
... children in the United States have. I did not realize that my mother had given me one thing that was going to be useful all the rest of my life. She had made me learn French before I learned English by the simple device of providing me ...
... children, I was bored by Latin, which was considered essential at the time, and I cannot say that Caesar's Gallic Wars were ever very interesting, I soon came to discover that in the thing which I greatly enjoyed, the acquiring of ...
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