Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

Categories: Education & Teaching, Self-Help

When his young daughter took up chess, journalist Tom Vanderbilt realized he had stopped learning new things as an adult. He spent a year as a beginner at chess, singing, surfing, drawing and juggling. Vanderbilt mixes his own clumsy progress with research on motor learning, expertise and aging. He argues that the beginner's mind, with its curiosity and freedom to fail, brings real rewards at any age, and that adults learn more than they expect.

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