{"product_id":"too-soon-old-too-late-smart-thirty-true-things-you-need-to-know-now","title":"Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe beloved bestselling collection of common sense wisdom from a celebrated psychologist and military veteran who proves it's never too late to move beyond the deepest of personal losses\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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 began work as a 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 unhappy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe 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 bedrock truths, including: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe are what we do.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAny relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe perfect is the enemy of the good.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnly bad things happen quickly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgiveness is a form of letting go, but they are not the same thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLivingston illuminates these and twenty-four other truths in a series of carefully hewn, perfectly calibrated essays, many of which focus on our closest relationships and the things that we do to impede 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 move beyond them--that it is not too late. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of things we may know but have not articulated to ourselves, \u003ci\u003eToo Soon Old, Too Late Smart\u003c\/i\u003e offers solace, guidance, and hope to everyone ready to become the person they'd most like to be.","brand":"Balance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51937481195751,"sku":"9781569243732","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_7a7016f6-5d2f-437f-bdaa-8e8ed825da90.jpg?v=1775010384","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/too-soon-old-too-late-smart-thirty-true-things-you-need-to-know-now","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}