Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Livingston, Gordon
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Livingston, Gordon

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

The beloved bestselling collection of common sense wisdom from a celebrated psychologist and military veteran who proves...
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Author: Gordon Livingston
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Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Livingston, Gordon

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

$18.99
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Livingston, Gordon

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

$18.99
Author: Gordon Livingston
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The beloved bestselling collection of common sense wisdom from a celebrated psychologist and military veteran who proves it's never too late to move beyond the deepest of personal losses

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, 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 other truths 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.

Author: Gordon Livingston
Publisher: Balance
Published: 03/04/2008
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781569243732

About the Author
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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