Beginners the joy and transformative power of lifelong learning
"Why do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to fail? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of being a beginner? Or is it simply a fact that you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Inspired by his young daughter's insatiable need to know how to do almost every...
| Main Author: | Vanderbilt, Tom (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The opening gambit
- A beginner's guide to being a beginner
- Learning how to learn: what infants can teach us about being good beginners
- Unlearning to sing
- I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway: the virtues of learning to fly with a group
- Surfing the u-shaped wave: the agony and the ecstasy of the advanced beginner
- How we learn to do things
- Meditation with benefits: how drawing changed the way I saw the world, and myself
- The apprentice, or, What I learned.