Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning Condition:Well Read During the Christmas holidays in

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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning Condition:Well Read During the Christmas holidays inWhy do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to be bad at something? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of beginning from the ground up? Inspired by his young daughter's insatiable curiosity, Tom Vanderbilt embarks on a yearlong quest of learning purely for the sake of learning. Rapturously singing Spice Girls songs in an amateur choir, losing games of chess to eight year olds, and dodging scorpions at a surf camp in Costa