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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
by Tom Vanderbilt
The author tackles new skills: chess, singing, surfing, juggling, drawing (and a few others). The book focuses too much on the author's personal experiences as he learns these. There are pearls of wisdom sprinkled throughout the reading that you can generalize to other new learning experiences, but you'll have to sort them out from within these stories.
I was hoping for a more generic book, with generalizations from many data sources/persons. There were definitely good references mentioned (noted in the appendix). But the learning felt like it was based too much on just this author's experiences. You will need to like these specific skills and have the patience to read through personal travel stories to pick out those end-of-chapter summaries typically found in a self-help style book.
I was hoping for a more generic book, with generalizations from many data sources/persons. There were definitely good references mentioned (noted in the appendix). But the learning felt like it was based too much on just this author's experiences. You will need to like these specific skills and have the patience to read through personal travel stories to pick out those end-of-chapter summaries typically found in a self-help style book.