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Title: Way of Life by William Osler ISBN: 0-06-141860-9 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 01 June, 1937 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not worth the money!
Comment: This tiny book is way overpriced. If you want to get the whole idea of the speech, buy Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living", which is much cheaper and much more valuable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Life in day-tight compartments.
Comment: Dale Carnegie and Stephen Covey, to name two self-help authors, were quite impressed with Dr. Osler's plan for a happy, successful life, which is summed up by the maxim: "Live in day-tight compartments." Full of flowery classical references, Dr. Osler's speech to the Yale graduating class of 1913 remains pleasant and inspirational, and if you'd like to know just a little bit more about Osler than his physical sign of endocarditis, it makes a fun read.
It's a "charming little book," practically new-polished with the rough pumice stone (reading Ivy League commencement addresses makes me quote Catullus. So sue me) - and it's pretty, bound in tan vinyl. I really would take exception to the type face, though, a too-cute number called Goudy Mediæval. It looks like something an old lady fond of antimacassars would call 'elegant.'
Would make a super gift for a college - or med school - grad!
Rating: 5
Summary: One day at a time.
Comment: The book is the text of an address that Sir William Osler gave at Yale University in 1913. He recommends approaching life as a series of "day-tight compartments," which he likens to the water-tight compartments that keep a ship afloat. (Interesting analogy just a year after the Titanic sank.)
His point is that worrying about either the past or the future is a burden that does nothing but reduce your effectiveness. If you focus your attention on what you have to do today, then over time, a string of successful days will make for a successful life. He quotes Thomas Carlyle: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Osler primarily attributes his own success not to talent or intelligence, but to good habits, consistently practiced, day after day after day. This is a small book filled with simple, eloquent wisdom that is every bit as applicable today as it was in 1913.
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Title: In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg ISBN: 0375505857 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses: With Commentary and Annotations by William Osler, Sir William Osler, Hisae Niki ISBN: 0822326825 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market--and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar ISBN: 006056413X Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller ISBN: 0767907183 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind ISBN: 1591840082 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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