Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

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Society, Politics & Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous Philosophy
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

Name: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
ISBN: 9780786732265

Gordon Livingston

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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 (many of them self-inflicted) that people find 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, Gordon 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...

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous Philosophy

Year:

2011

Publisher:

Da Capo Press

Language:

english

ISBN 10:

0786732261

ISBN 13:

9780786732265