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The Courage to Be a Beginner Again

How to Tolerate Uncertainty, Incompetence, and Visible Learning Later in Life

by William R. Stanek ...

Series Book 5 - Living Well: The Long View
Experience teaches you how to be capable, efficient, and prepared. It can also make beginning something unfamiliar unusually uncomfortable. In a new field, skill, role, or creative pursuit, you may once again need instructions, make obvious mistakes, and allow other people to see what you do not yet know. The Courage to Be a Beginner Again examines why temporary incompetence can feel like a threat ... Read more

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Experience teaches you how to be capable, efficient, and prepared. It can also make beginning something unfamiliar unusually uncomfortable. In a new field, skill, role, or creative pursuit, you may once again need instructions, make obvious mistakes, and allow other people to see what you do not yet know. The Courage to Be a Beginner Again examines why temporary incompetence can feel like a threat
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The Courage to Be a Beginner Again

How to Tolerate Uncertainty, Incompetence, and Visible Learning Later in Life

by William R. Stanek ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Living Well: The Long View
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Experience teaches you how to be capable, efficient, and prepared. It can also make beginning something unfamiliar unusually uncomfortable. In a new field, skill, role, or creative pursuit, you may once again need instructions, make obvious mistakes, and allow other people to see what you do not yet know. The Courage to Be a Beginner Again examines why temporary incompetence can feel like a threat ... Read more

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Experience teaches you how to be capable, efficient, and prepared. It can also make beginning something unfamiliar unusually uncomfortable. In a new field, skill, role, or creative pursuit, you may once again need instructions, make obvious mistakes, and allow other people to see what you do not yet know. The Courage to Be a Beginner Again examines why temporary incompetence can feel like a threat
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Aging Well, Living Fully, and Finding Meaning in Your Later Years

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Inclusive, compassionate, and grounded in evidence-based science, A Good Life will help you face aging not with fear, but with curiosity and courage.Aging isn’t just a physical process; it’s a rewarding emotional and psychological journey. While growing older brings many challenges—the loss of loved ones, changes in health, shifting family roles, and confronting ageism and mortality—it also brings ... Read more

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Well-being In Later Life

The Notion of Connected Autonomy

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Series series Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life
Advancing the notion of connected autonomy, and highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the development of this novel concept, this volume explores the possibility of maintaining the freedom to make one’s own decisions in later life, while also remaining connected to others – as well as to things, services, places and events.Through a series of case studies, the book examines ... Read more

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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Building on the work of the previous volumes in the Sex and Intimacy in Later Life series, this book explores how resexualisation may take place in later life.Drawing on transdisciplinary and international content, it provides a theoretically and experientially informed overview and discussion of resexualisation, highlighting important areas of research in a nascent area of study.This volume ... Read more

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Downsizing After Divorce

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Series Book 3427 - The Later-Life Divorce Library
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Inclusive, compassionate, and grounded in evidence-based science, A Good Life will help you face aging not with fear, but with curiosity and courage.Aging isn't just a physical process; it's a rewarding emotional and psychological journey. While growing older brings many challenges—the loss of loved ones, changes in health, shifting family roles, and confronting ageism and mortality—it also brings ... Read more

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