PATRIMONY DELAYED: 1/4 A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exp
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 August 2023
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PATRIMONY DELAYED: 1/4 A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present, by William Damon
Viewing our past through the eyes of maturity can reveal insights that our younger selves could not see. Lessons that eluded us become apparent. Encounters that once felt like misfortunes now become understood as valued parts of who we are. We realize what we’ve learned and what we have to teach. And we’re encouraged to chart a future that is rich with purpose.
In A Round of Golf with My Father, William Damon introduces us to the “life review.” This is a process of looking with clarity and curiosity at the paths we’ve traveled, examining our pasts in a frank yet positive manner, and using what we’ve learned to write purposeful next chapters for our lives.
For Damon, that process began by uncovering the mysterious life of his father, whom he never met and never gave much thought to. What he discovered surprised him so greatly that he was moved to reassess the events of his own life, including the choices he made, the relationships he forged, and the career he pursued.
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| 0:40.8 | And I welcome Professor William Damon, Bill Damon. |
| 0:44.0 | Stanford University, the Hoover Institution, but the author, Bill Damon. |
| 0:48.0 | The book is a round of golf with my father, subtitle. |
| 0:51.8 | The new psychology of exploring your past to make peace with your present. |
| 0:57.1 | Bill, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:58.6 | Congratulations. |
| 1:00.0 | And we begin with your father, Philip Arthur Damon, Jr. of Pitchfield, Massachusetts. |
| 1:06.4 | A young man in 1944, a momentary pause in his early army volunteer drafting experience. |
| 1:17.2 | He came home from his bivouac before the big push, |
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| 1:28.9 | However, he met a woman named Helen, a young woman, just as himself. |
| 1:33.5 | And they married your father. |
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