Gordon Livingston - Too Soon Old Too Late Smart New book

TOO SOON OLD, TOO LATE SMART

Thirty True Things You Need to Know

by GORDON LIVINGSTON M.D.

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New softcover book, 169 pages  

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 grapple with as we strive to make the most of the life we have left.

After service in Vietnam as a surgeon, Dr Gordon Livingston returned to the US 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 (most of them self-inflicted) that we have found to be unhappy. He is also a parent twice bereaved. In one thirteen-month period, he lost his eldest son to suicide and his youngest to leukaemia.

Out of a lifetime of experience, Livingston has extracted thirty bedrock truths. These essays underscore that 'we are what we do', and that while there may be no escaping who we are, we also have the capacity to face loss, misfortune, and regret and to move beyond them.

Full of things we may know but have not articulated to ourselves, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart is a gentle and generous alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity.

About the author

Gordon Livingston MD is a psychiatrist and writer whose first three books - Only Spring; Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart; and And Never Stop Dancing - have been published in more than 22 countries. He lives and works in Columbia, Maryland.

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Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston MD