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You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements
David McCullough, Jr.
Ecco
May 2014
On Sale: April 22, 2014
352 pages
ISBN: 006225734X
EAN: 9780062257345
Kindle: B00DKZSWC0
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Non-Fiction Inspirational
A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular
commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing,
narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on
YouTube—You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to
students and parents as well as a guide to a truly
fulfilling, happy life. Children today, says David
McCullough—high school English teacher, father of four, and
son and namesake of the famous historian—are being
encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for
specious notions of success. The intense pressure to excel
discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning
empathy and self-confidence from those failures. In
You Are (Not) Special, McCullough elaborates on his
now-famous speech exploring how, for what purpose, and for
whose sake, we're raising our kids. With wry, affectionate
humor, McCullough takes on hovering parents, ineffectual
schools, professional college prep, electronic distractions,
club sports, and generally the manifestations, and the
applications and consequences of privilege. By acknowledging
that the world is indifferent to them, McCullough takes
pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and
instead exhorts them to roll up their sleeves and do
something useful with their advantages.
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