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. 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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... we were studying, giving us as many different lights on the period as she thought we could understand. 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.
... thought out, but have you forgotten this or that point?” That was an imaginative method of education and most valuable. We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself. The learning process must go on ...
... thought he or she had died long ago . Actually , he had only stopped growing . Other people , against tremendous handicaps , continue to grow . I am thinking especially of one of my aunts , Mrs. Cowles . She became so helplessly ...
... thought we had come out about even . This part of learning - learning as you go - gives life its salt . And this , too , comes back primarily to interest . You must be interested in anything that comes your way . Right here , some of ...
... thought from wherever it comes, not resisting it; weighing and evaluating and exploring the strange new concepts that confront us at every turn. We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, “I have learned all I ...