TOO SOON OLD, TOO LATE SMART by M.D. Gordon Livingston M.D., Elizabeth Edwards (Foreword) ( 9780786732265 )

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Title:

TOO SOON OLD, TOO LATE SMART
THIRTY TRUE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW

By:

M.D. Gordon Livingston M.D., Elizabeth Edwards (Foreword)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0786732261

ISBN 13:

9780786732265

Publisher:

THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP

Pub. date:

29 April, 2009

Description:

From a psychiatrist who has spent the past thirty-five years listening to other people's most intimate problems and struggles, here is a generous and gentle alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity.

Synopsis:

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 calibrated essays, many of which focus on 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 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 offers solace, guidance, and hope to everyone ready to become the person they'd most like to be.

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Imprint:

Da Capo Press Inc

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Non-returnable

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