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Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now (Large Print)
Too Soon Old Too Late Smart Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now - Large Print Author:Gordon Livingston MD 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. A psychiatrist familiar with trauma from b... more »oth his practice and his life (in one 13-month period, he lost one son to leukemia and another to suicide), Livingston offers the kind of wisdom that feels simultaneously commonsensical and revelatory: "We are what we do", "The perfect is the enemy of the good", "The major advantage of illness is relief from responsibility". He intersperses counsel with personal experience, and tackles topics both joyful and deeply painful. In the chapter focusing on "We are what we do", he notes that the "three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to", and he reminds us that "love is demonstrated behaviorally"-that is, actions count more than words.« less