Where does this come from: “In my experience, personal regrets and disappointments can lead people to harden their value systems, as in “I may not have achieved X but I am proud to live my life according to Y.” Such self-imposed rigor can also lead a person to judge others harshly.”
Thanks for reading, Rich. I regret that early in life I neither went for a PhD nor went all-out to work my way up to a good job in journalism. Is that what you are asking?
Hi John, thanks for reading. Autobiographical insofar as I ponder what it'd be like to assign someone to write a book-length memoir about me and my life, and make it interesting to a general audience. It doesn't exactly write itself. Mendelsohn takes roughly comparable material and pulls it off.
Where does this come from: “In my experience, personal regrets and disappointments can lead people to harden their value systems, as in “I may not have achieved X but I am proud to live my life according to Y.” Such self-imposed rigor can also lead a person to judge others harshly.”
Thanks for reading, Rich. I regret that early in life I neither went for a PhD nor went all-out to work my way up to a good job in journalism. Is that what you are asking?
Yes.
Bravo, Ricky. Seems at least partially autobiographical itself - or do I misinterpret?
Hi John, thanks for reading. Autobiographical insofar as I ponder what it'd be like to assign someone to write a book-length memoir about me and my life, and make it interesting to a general audience. It doesn't exactly write itself. Mendelsohn takes roughly comparable material and pulls it off.