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A review by sgrizzle
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life by Eleanor Roosevelt
medium-paced
4.0
“Learning and living. But they really are the same thing, aren’t they? There is no experience from which you can’t learn something. When you stop learning, you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense. And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost and to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
It’s amazing how both timely and dated this book is lol. And also how Roosevelt veers between talking about her incredibly privileged life like it’s no big deal and also being very practical with her advice. She very casually describes what I think amounts to emotional neglect as a child, but I had to remind myself to place it in context of being born in 1884 (this goes for some of the other content as well, some descriptions had me like 🥴). All in all an interesting time capsule and still filled with wisdom. Eleanor was a one of a kind leader.
(OH she tells a story about a young woman who came from Washington state to New York to pitch a bracelet idea- for young widows who don’t feel comfortable wearing their wedding ring and also want to show that they are available 😆- and Eleanor was like “nope” and then called her a time waster in the book. IMAGINE BEING THAT GIRL AND THEN READING THIS 💀 I had to stop for a moment I was laughing so hard)
It’s amazing how both timely and dated this book is lol. And also how Roosevelt veers between talking about her incredibly privileged life like it’s no big deal and also being very practical with her advice. She very casually describes what I think amounts to emotional neglect as a child, but I had to remind myself to place it in context of being born in 1884 (this goes for some of the other content as well, some descriptions had me like 🥴). All in all an interesting time capsule and still filled with wisdom. Eleanor was a one of a kind leader.