Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart (豆瓣)

副标题: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
ISBN: 9781569244197
页数: 169
定价: USD 18.00
出版社: Marlowe & Company
装帧: Hardcover
出版年: 2004-10-19

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　　From a psychiatrist who has spent the past thirty years listening to other people's most intimate secrets and troublesan eloquent, incisive, and deeply perceptive book about the things we all shareand which every one of us grapples with as we strive to make the most of the life we have left.
　　
　　After service in Vietnam as a surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regim... (展开全部) 　　From a psychiatrist who has spent the past thirty years listening to other people's most intimate secrets and troublesan eloquent, incisive, and deeply perceptive book about the things we all shareand which every one of us grapples with as we strive to make the most of the life we have left.
　　
　　After service in Vietnam as a surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1968-69, at the height of the warDr. Gordon Livingston returned to the U.S. and began work as a psychiatrist. In that capacity, he has listened to people talk about their liveswhat works, what doesn't, and the limitless ways (most of them self-inflicted) that we have found to be unhappy. He is also a parent twice bereavedin one thirteen-month period, he lost his eldest son to suicide, his youngest to leukemia.
　　
　　Out of a lifetime of experience, Livingston has extracted thirty bedrock truths: We are what we do. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Only bad things happen quickly. Forgiveness is a form of letting go, but they are not the same thing. The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas. Livingston illuminates these and twenty-four others in a series of carefully hewn, perfectly calibrated essays, many of which emphasize our closest relationships and the things that we do to impede or, less frequently, enhance them. Again and again, these essays underscore that "we are what we do," and that while there may be no escaping who we are, we also have the capacity to face loss, misfortune, and regret and to move beyond themthat it is not too late.
　　
　　Full of things we may know but have not articulated to ourselves, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart is a gentle and generous alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity. For everyone who feels a sense of urgency that the clock ticks and still we aren't the person we'd like to be, it offers solace, guidance, and hope.　　

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人生苦难重重。只有认识到这一点，才有获得幸福的可能。在太老之前变得聪明，就是接受人生的现实：认识自己，而不评价自己；不是要做什么，而是做了什么，和正在做什么。 ...... (1回应)

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