Exuberance by Kay Redfield Jamison
As the name suggests, this is a book about Exuberance, the effervescent spirit of well-being, a passion that pushes the boundaries of human limitations and this is also a book that brings the trying times of our previous generation before our eyes and how the leaders of those era found energy and high spirit within themselves to motivate and guide a generation through hardships and unclear horizons of hope. If we ever think, we have a challenging task at hand, history (World War 2 era) should provide us some light on what human beliefs can accomplish.
This books belongs to the genre of psychiatry, but it is written for the common man with stories of Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Michael Faraday and a long list of others. A rare blend of erudition with popular story telling. Very much in the league of “FLOW” the psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
