Author: Gordon Livingston
Translator: Hye-sook Noh
Publisher: LeadersBook
H/C | 240 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
From a psychiatrist who has spent the past thirty years listening to other
people's most intimate secrets and troubles-an eloquent, incisive, and deeply
perceptive book about the things we all share-and 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 war, 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-what 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
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: 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 them-that 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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