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Livingston MD, Gordon

 
9781569243732: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
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ISBN 10 : 1569243735 ISBN 13 : 9781569243732
Editeur : Balance, 2008

Synopsis

A new classic-in-the-making from a physician of the human heart: the 25 essential things we all must discover about life, and how best to live it.

After service in Vietnam as a surgeon in 1968-69, Dr. Gordon Livingston returned to the U.S. and began work as a psychiatrist. In that capacity, he has listened to people talk about their lives and the limitless ways that they have found to be unhappy. He is also a parent twice bereaved. In 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, including:

  • 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 perfectly calibrated essays, many of which emphasize our closest relationships and the things that we do to impede or enhance them. These writings underscore that "we are what we do," and that while there may be no escaping who we are, we have the capacity to face loss, misfortune, and regret, and to move beyond them.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gordon Livingston, MD, a graduate of West Point and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who was awarded the Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam, was a psychiatrist and writer who contributed frequently to the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Baltimore Sun. His books include Only Spring; Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart; And Never Stop Dancing; How to Love; and The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

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Éditeur
Balance
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1569243735
ISBN 13 
9781569243732
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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