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Beginners : the joy and transformative power of lifelong learning / Tom Vanderbilt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Vanderbilt, Tom, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Self-managed learning.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Chapter 1 A Beginner's Guide to Being a Beginner p. 16
Chapter 2 Learning How to Learn What Infants Can Teach Us About Being Good Beginners p. 57
Chapter 3 Unlearning to Sing p. 70
Chapter 4 I Don't Know What I'm Doing, But I'm Doing it Anyway The Virtues of Learning on the Fly with a Group p. 106
Chapter 5 Surfing the U-Shaped Wave The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Advanced Beginner p. 138
Chapter 6 How We Learn to Do Things p. 180
Chapter 7 Meditation with Benefits How Drawing Changed the Way I Saw the World, and Myself p. 201
Chapter 8 The Apprentice or, What I Learned p. 227.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi Book" -- Copyright page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Vanderbilt, Tom. Beginners
ISBN:
9781524732172
1524732176
Publisher Number:
40030294612
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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