The Passionate State of Mind
Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1956 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : Hopewell Publications Llc |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781933435220 |
Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Temper of Our Time examines the influence of the juvenile mentality, the rise of automation, the black revolution, the regression of the back-to-nature movement, the intellectual vs. learning, and other relevent issues.
Author | : Brad Stulberg |
Publisher | : Rodale Books |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1635653444 |
The coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich and meaningful life while also illuminating the ways in which it is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to cultivate a passion that will take you to great heights—while minimizing the risk of an equally great fall. Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. Rarely is passion something that you just stumble upon, and the same drive that fuels breakthroughs—whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic—can be every bit as destructive as it is productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to channel it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to endless seeking, suffering, and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find and cultivate their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And that's not always a bad thing. They show readers how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to—and every bit as important, sustain—passion.
Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
This collection of aphorisms and philosophical comment represents Eric Hoffer at his best. It offers stunning insights that strike home with startling frequency, often most uncomfortably; it has a fine unity, a well-defined theme. That some of the statements invite argument and questioning is inevitable and stimulating. Here is a book of the "wry epigram and the icy aphorism" which made his earlier books so appealing and gained for him a wide audience.--Publisher description.
Author | : Eric Hoffer |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780809436026 |
Author | : Michael W. Robbins |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761116356 |
A celebration of Brooklyn features more than one hundred original articles that tap into the life of "America's Hometown."
Author | : Claudia Roth Pierpont |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2001-02-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0679751130 |
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art. Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness. "Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus." ?The Boston Globe "One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time." ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books
Author | : Allan Bloom |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439126267 |
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Author | : Kay Redfield Jamison |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2005-09-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0375701486 |
A national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states—one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. “[Jamison is] that rare writer who can offer a kind of unified field theory of science and art.” —The Washington Post Book World With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulz’s Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it. The resulting book is an irresistible fusion of science and soul.