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Klein MD, George

 
9781573921541: Live Now: Inspiring Accounts of Overcoming Adversity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1573921548 ISBN 13: 9781573921541
Verlag: Prometheus, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Why do some individuals triumph in situations that would physically or emotionally destroy most people? When tremendous physical, psychological, or emotional adversity threatens to destroy us, how can we hold on, gather strength, and conquer the obstacles in our path? Could "flow" be the way out an antidote to the poisons of our time?
Live Now: Inspiring Accounts of Overcoming Adversity by George Klein answers these questions by offering the fascinating and moving stories of three men who were close to the author and who conquered their separate demons. One man fought on several fronts of the Second World War, experienced the horrors of Nazi and later Communist prisons, but maintained his thirst for and enjoyment of life and emerged as a successful businessman and world traveler. The second man, Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek, used his extraordinary scientific talent to escape conventional life and its boredom. The third, Klein's uncle, lost his whole family in the Holocaust but still found the inner strength to continue living alone in his home village, even though his entire ethnic and religious group and its culture had been destroyed.
In order to escape sorrow and weariness, they chose an active commitment a psychological state of intense concentration, timelessness, and euphoria which imparted tremendous inner strength. They are continuously looking for challenging tasks that maximize activity and liberate them from the past and the future, permitting them to live here and now.

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By George Klein - Translated by Clas von Sydow - Preface by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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As the twentieth century draws to a close, a quick review of its major events reveals a death toll associated with far too many of them. Two world wars, a cold war, and numerous, smaller (yet still deadly) "hot wars" reflect the brutality of an age. But despite the widespread inhumanity epitomized by the Holocaust (which George Klein, the author, himself barely escaped), some individuals have triumphed over situations that would physically or emotionally destroy most others. How does this happen? What gives these remarkable people the ability to persevere against the most impossible odds? Live Now: Inspiring Accounts of Overcoming Adversity answers these questions by offering the fascinating and moving stories of three men close to the author. These men, "flow addicts", to use the terminology of psychologist and author of the book's foreword Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, survive through intense concentration, through selflessness, and through a genuine altruism. The first, Ali Elovic, fought on several fronts in World War II and was forced to endure the horrors of Nazi and Communist prisons, but still maintained his thirst for life, emerging as a successful businessman. The second, Nobel Prize-winning virologist Carleton Gajdusek, used his extraordinary scientific talent to escape conventional life and to provide a home and education to more than thirty youths from "primitive" cultures in New Zealand, Australia, and other places. The third, Klein's Uncle Miska, lost his entire family as well as his whole ethnic and religious group to the Holocaust, yet he was able to return to his home village, all alone, and become the universally loved director of the region. These men, in order to escape sorrow and weariness, chose an active commitment, a psychological state of timelessness and euphoria, that imparted tremendous inner strength and provided an antidote to the poisons of our times. Through the examples of their lives, readers can learn to achieve the same.

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Verlag
Prometheus
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1573921548
ISBN 13 
9781573921541
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
311
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