Guiding lights
Subtitle: the people who lead us toward our purpose in life
By: Eric Liu
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780375508639
Subjects: Mentoring.
Description: As he entered fatherhood and a phase of changing ambitions, Eric Liu set out in search of great mentors. He found much more. He encountered people from all walks of life, from all across the country, with something powerful to pass on about how to change lives. Among those Liu portrays in vivid and fascinating narratives are one of Hollywood's finest acting teachers, who turns a middling young actress into a project for transformation; an esteemed major league pitching coach, haunted by the players he's let down; a rising executive whose eye for untapped talent allows her to rescue a floundering employee; a master clown whose workshop teaches a husband-and-wife team to revamp their relationship, onstage and off; a high school debate coach whose protégée falters at the pinnacle, and thus finds triumph; and a gangland priest who has saved many and yet still must confront the limits of his power to heal.
Table of contents: title: Overture. Pt. 1: Receive before you transmit: The quest; title: Pitchers and catchers: an education in nine innings; title: Chorale 1. Pt. 2: Unblock, unlock: Chicks in charge; title: Inch by inch; title: The feel teacher; title: Amendment; title: Chorale 2. Pt. 3: Zoom in, zoom out: The Sammie and Tudie show; title: Footsteps; title: Her own pathways; title: Chorale 3. Pt. 4: Invisible hands: The space between: a mural in twenty-one panels; title: Faith's fathers; title: Fresh fields; title: Chorale 4. Pt. 5: Switch shoes: The voice and the echo; title: A guru's guru; title: Mirror, mirror, mirror; title: Chorale 5. Coda.