![]() You'll understand better how we solve problems, how we learn and how we succeed. No matter what you do, where you are in life, whether you are a teacher, student, scientist, business analyst, parent, job hunter, retiree, you will see the world differently after you've read Range. Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates why in most fields - especially those that are complex and unpredictable - generalists, not specialists are primed to excel. In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly, juggling many interests - in other words, by developing range. And, worse, that if you dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019Ī powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.įrom the '10,000 hours rule' to the power of Tiger parenting, we have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization and many hours of deliberate practice. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Reality shows us that civilization is not content with the ties we have so far allowed it. ![]() But this desirable state of things does not, and never did, exist. If this were so, civilization would not have to withdraw any energy from sexuality. So far, we can quite well imagine a cultural community consisting of double individuals like this, who, libidinally satisfied in themselves, are connected with one another through the bonds of common work and common interests. In no other case does Eros so clearly betray the core of his being, his purpose of making one out of more than one but when he has achieved this in the proverbial way through the love of two human beings, he refuses to go further. ![]() When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves, and do not even need the child they have in common to make them happy. Sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals. This English translation was published in 1961.) ![]() Paragraph numbers apply to this excerpt, not the original Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930Įxcerpts from Digitized Original at the Internet ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his experience of blindness offers unexpected insights into the senses. by Ryan Knighton WHITE C2006 > Nonfiction > Autobiography > Memoir > Disability > Humour > Canada On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with. Cockeyed is not a conventional confessional. ![]() In this memoir, he tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally illuminating the wonderful strangeness of our own, sighted world." "Knighton learns to drive while unseeing has his first significant relationship - with a deaf woman navigates the punk rock scene and men's washrooms learns to use a cane and tries to pass for seeing while teaching English to children in Korea. "On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. ![]() ![]() The moonshine was supplied by my brother Floyd, who’s more than a fair hand at the making of it, who uses copper for his stills and not tin, and who wasn’t above selling a few of his hand-whittled toys to the young people on the side.īy ten o’clock most of the men were pretty well in their cups. The streets were so crowded you could scarce walk. ![]() There hasn’t been such a holiday in Pikeville since I can’t remember when. And they sentenced the half-wit Mounts to death then and there for what happened the night the Hatfields’ gang attacked our house and did the killings.Īll of Eastern Kentucky came out for his hanging. The prosecuting attorney even called Ma a liar, and I thought Pa would shoot him on the spot. Said she still wasn’t right in the head after what happened to her. But when they put Ma on the witness stand at his trial, they shut her up. ![]() He was a halfwit and his people are dirt-poor and simple, but he didn’t deserve to die. ![]() |