The Point Is: Making Sense Of Birth, Death, And Everything In Between
by Lee Eisenberg
Buy on AmazonIn this engaging and provocative new book, Lee Eisenberg, bestselling author of The Number, dares to tackle nothing less than what it takes to find enduring meaning and purpose in life. He explains how from a young age, each of us is compelled to take memories of events and relationships and shape them into a one-of-a-kind personal narrative. In addition to sharing his own pivotal memories (some of them moving, some just a shade embarrassing), Eisenberg presents striking research culled from psychology and neuroscience, and draws on insights from a pantheon of thinkers and great writers-Tolstoy, Freud, Joseph Campbell, Virginia Woolf, among others.…
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"“Our stories are us,” writes former Esquire editor-in-chief Lee Eisenberg. Maybe that’s a point of view especially appealing to journalists; it certainly grabbed me. His book ventures into great thinkers’ territory, but there’s nothing stuffy here. It’s engaging as can be, and as much about the importance of memory and the stories we choose to tell about ourselves as it is about the point of our existence. The two go hand in hand: Creating and framing our life stories gives our lives meaning. For Eisenberg, the story is the point. And reading his is a pleasure."
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