Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
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From a child psychiatrist who has spent the past thirty-five years listening to additional people’s most intimate problems and struggles, here is a generous and gentle alternative to the examination-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity.
After service in Vietnam, as a surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1968-69, at the height of the war, Dr. Gordon Livingston returned to the U.S. and started work as a child psychiatrist. In that capacity, he has listened to people talk about their lives–what works, what doesn’t, and the limitless ways (many of them self-inflicted) that people find to be miserable. He is also a parent twice bereaved; in one thirteen-month period, he lost his eldest son to suicide, his youngest to leukemia.
Out of a lifetime of experience, Gordon Livingston has extracted thirty levelheaded rock truths: We are what we do. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least. The perfect is the enemy of the excellent. Only terrible things take place quickly. Forgiveness is a form of letting go, but they are not the same thing. The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas. Livingston illuminates these and twenty-four others in a series of carefully hewn, perfectly calibrated essays, many of which focus on our closest relationships and the things that we do to block or, less frequently, enhance them. Again and again, these essays underscore that “we are what we do,” and that while there may be no escaping who we are, we have the capacity to face loss, misfortune, and regret and to go beyond them–that it is not too late.
Full of things we may know but have not articulated to ourselves, Too Soon Ancient, Too Late Smart offers support, guidance, and hope to everyone ready to become the person they’d most like to be.
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I truly feel compassion for Dr. Gordon Livingston. Life has been hard for him. I cant imagine the loss of two sons in just over a year. It has obviously taken an incomprehensible toll on the heart of this loving father. I nearly wish, because I felt his pain through the pages, that I could say that I don’t know. But because of his transparency, I reflect I do know, at least a small bit.
I know that Dr. Livingston is a man who lives with a deep pain that seeps out in most of what he does, including this book.
I know that Dr. Livingston simultaneously longs for the like of God and despises Him.
I know that Dr. Livingston, as a result of the many pains of his life, thinks more about death then most healthy people should.
As I place down his book, I prayed for him. I prayed that Dr. Livingston would come to know and know the like of a God, that he would tell to a God who also watched a son die. I prayed that through that relationship with God he would become absolutely sure that he would one day hug his children. I prayed that he would be stripped of his intellectual opinion and allow himself to be vulnerable to a like and a peace that truly surpasses all understanding.
Though I can’t recommend the book because of its strong bias against faith, a bias that seems to imply that faith is valuable for the sanity of the individual and not much beyond that, its overt sadness/focus on death/pessimism and its failure to really dig into a few critical subjects (like legacy, which he touches upon but doesn’t explore deeply enough or as a piece of the puzzle that gives us hope), I truly wish Dr. Livingston the very best in this life and beyond… and there is a beyond, Dr. Livingston. Thankfully.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book on the suggestions of the additional reviews written and was extremely disappointed. If you’re in therapy I reflect this book will help you. But, if you’re the type of person who takes responsiblity for your thoughts and actions then this book steals about 2 hours of your life. There are much better books out there for you to read than this….Trust me on this one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the kind of book that friends give you, because it will be “excellent for you.” Most readers will find a section or two that ring right with the kind of advice you’ve permanently wanted to give yourself. But the book is a hodge-podge: Part autobiography, part tales from the consulting room (of a practicing child psychiatrist), part devastating memoir of the agony of a parent losing sons in untimely death. In sum, it lacks structure and an overall purpose and one has the sense that it was more enjoyable to write than it is to read.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I establish this leader’s “right” things you need to know to not only not be right but also to simply reveal his very sad pessimistic view of life. Perhaps this view comes from his loss of two of his own children or his job as a child psychiatrist. Whatever the reason, I do not recommend this book unless you want to validate problems and stay stuck in your developement or you just want to become depressed or like I did, feel sorry for the leader.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
this book was very dissapointing. the content was practical and staight forwards consisting of common sense and various observations with a few catch phrases. the leader sounds like a nice guy who means well, but does not have much to contribute toward a better understanding of life for the average individual.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5