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.
發表於2024-11-15
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用瞭三天的時間,通讀完Too Soon Old,Too Late Smart的稿件。 閱讀的過程中,一直想把自己變成作者,變成G·戈登·利文斯頓,一個生在美國的、專業的心裏谘詢師,接觸過無數憂鬱癥患者的案例,見證過悲歡離閤,經曆過大喜大悲,一個把什麼都能看淡、看透的人。 他用自己專業的...
評分用瞭三天的時間,通讀完Too Soon Old,Too Late Smart的稿件。 閱讀的過程中,一直想把自己變成作者,變成G·戈登·利文斯頓,一個生在美國的、專業的心裏谘詢師,接觸過無數憂鬱癥患者的案例,見證過悲歡離閤,經曆過大喜大悲,一個把什麼都能看淡、看透的人。 他用自己專業的...
評分108 RMB 我以為是多厚的書 多好的書 原來 就二百頁不到 紙張 一般 內容還沒看! 它是第一本讓我感受到 作者的每一個字 都是金子啊!
評分108 RMB 我以為是多厚的書 多好的書 原來 就二百頁不到 紙張 一般 內容還沒看! 它是第一本讓我感受到 作者的每一個字 都是金子啊!
評分用瞭三天的時間,通讀完Too Soon Old,Too Late Smart的稿件。 閱讀的過程中,一直想把自己變成作者,變成G·戈登·利文斯頓,一個生在美國的、專業的心裏谘詢師,接觸過無數憂鬱癥患者的案例,見證過悲歡離閤,經曆過大喜大悲,一個把什麼都能看淡、看透的人。 他用自己專業的...
圖書標籤: 心理學 心理 英文原版 美國 生活 self life help
It took me a while to finish the whole book, not because of the volume but because of the randomly unrelated topics embedded in the 30 stories. Most of "the thirty true things you need to know now" we already know, but "highlight" in the short story in this way, still give me a refresh of some thoughts born in mind.
評分非常精彩!我需要好好看這本書
評分這本書就像作者一巴掌接一巴掌地摑在臉上,卻無從分辯,因為他說的都是事實。我想改變,可是又不得不傷心難過地想,如果我就是個自私的混蛋怎麼辦,這可以改變嗎?
評分越看越有爛尾的感覺
評分I never realised that something could be so simple but strikingly true, while I never thought about it until now.
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