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Title Beginners : the joy and transformative power of lifelong learning / Tom Vanderbilt.
Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description x, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue: The opening gambit -- A beginner's guide to being a beginner -- Learning how to learn: what infants can teach us about being good beginners -- Unlearning to sing -- I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway: the virtues of learning to fly with a group -- Surfing the u-shaped wave: the agony and the ecstasy of the advanced beginner -- How we learn to do things -- Meditation with benefits: how drawing changed the way I saw the world, and myself -- The apprentice, or, What I learned.
Summary "The best-selling author of Traffic and You May Also Like now gives us a thought-provoking, playful investigation into the transformative joys that come with starting something new, no matter your age"-- Provided by publisher.
Other edition Online version: Vanderbilt, Tom, Beginners New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 9781524732172
Subject Self-actualization (Psychology)
Self-managed learning.
Learning.
Learning, Psychology of.
Life skills.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780525432975
0525432973
9781524732165
1524732168