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What I Wish Id Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up

內容簡介

內容簡介 匯集心理學研究與大量個案訪談，給在人生中遭遇逆風的你一些建議與指引‘A superb study … brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew – but never understood’ EMILY MAITLISLoss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come.This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life – children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereavement – become the most successful adults? And is there something to learn from those people, who perhaps have the strongest sense of what matters most?Of Britain’s fifty-five prime ministers, twenty-five lost one or both of their parents as a child and 69 per cent suffered some form of serious childhood trauma. For their acclaimed podcast Past Imperfect, Thomson and Sylvester spoke to some such prime ministers, as well as pioneers and poets, CEOs and chefs, actors and archbishops, sports stars and Nobel prize-winning scientists. How did Richard Branson overcome severe dyslexia? How did Daphne Park, born in lonely, rural Tanzania, become one of Britain’s top spies? How was diver Tom Daley driven on to win an Olympic gold medal by being bullied at school and his father’s early death?This book brings together psychological research with scores of intimate, fascinating interviews. The resulting narrative is full of hope, and might help us all towards a better understanding of resilience, motivation, perspective and courage.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Rachel SylvesterRachel Sylvester is a British political journalist. She is a columnist and interviewer for The Times and chairs The Times Education Commission. She also presents the Past Imperfect podcast with Alice Thomson. Rachel started writing about politics in 1996 and was a political reporter on The Daily Telegraph before becoming political editor of The Independent on Sunday. She joined The Times in 2008. Alice ThomsonAlice Thomson is a British political journalist. She is an associate editor, weekly columnist, and political interviewer for The Times. Alice became a trainee on The Times in 1990 before becoming a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the newspaper. In 1997 she moved to The Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer and also wrote the restaurant reviews and political interviews before re-joining The Times in 2008. She has written for Vogue and The Spectator and appeared on Question Time and Newsnight. Alice presents the interview series Past Imperfect with fellow Times columnist Rachel Sylvester on Times Radio, which began in July 2020, also available as a podcast, and now in its fourth series. In 2000, Alice wrote the book The Singing Line about her ancestor Sir Charles Todd, who connected Australia to the world by building a telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin; the city of Alice Springs was named after his wife Alice. In 2022, with Rachel Sylvester, Alice wrote What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young, looking at why it is that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life become the most successful adults. Alice is married with three sons and one daughter.

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