The Light We Carry
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There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.
“When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.
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Life lesson book that declares itself not to be one.
Michelle might be a likable person with a background that might indicate hardship along the way. To rise from something someone might have declared ghetto to the whitehouse is a feat - some might say. I think it happened by chance. She met a person that had the ambition to be at a countries top. She might be a good mother but my mother and my mothers mother are that too. This is a book by a famous person, displaying their views because it seems appropriate. She has no special trait, no ability, nothing to show for except living in a big place. Why 3 stars? Because it is still a good book. A reminder to reflect about certain talking points with a fresh perspective from -just- another human being. I do think michelle is a nice person and i truly believe she would agree with me here.
Ein Stück amerikanische Geschichte, aber vor allem eine Geschichte über Menschen.
Vorab: auf der Liste der Personen, die ich gerne mal treffen würde, steht Michelle Obama ziemlich weit oben. Es ist also keine Überraschung, dass mir gefällt, was sie sagt und schreibt, wie sie immer vom Guten in Menschen ausgeht und nicht von den Verfehlungen; was sie in Bezug auf den "Zustand der Gesellschaft" zu sagen hat; was zum Thema Gleichberechtigung, Rassismus, Feminismus, Zusammenleben und Miteinander-Umgehen. In "The Light we Carry" geht es darum, wie man in der heutigen Zeit sein Licht erhält. Und da ist es egal, ob man in den USA lebt oder in Deutschland. So unterschiedlich, wie wir immer glauben zu sein, sind wir nicht. Die menschlichen Bedürfnisse und Ängste sind überall gleich. Michelle Obama bietet Perspektiven und ein paar praktische Tipps. Was mir aber nicht gefallen hat, ist der ausschweifende Schreibstil. Sie kommt nur langsam zum Punkt, das macht das Lesen etwas schwer - dafür ist der Punkt immer gut. 😊
»Kleine Siege, das habe ich herausgefunden, bleiben nicht immer folgenlos. Ein winziger Schub reicht manchmal aus, um den nächsten auszulösen, und eine Tätigkeit, die unser Gleichgewicht wiederherstellt, bewirkt noch mehr. Wir können uns selbst stufenweise zu größeren Handlungen und größerer Wirkung hinsteuern, indem wir uns zum Beispiel einfach an einer neuen Sache versuchen und eine scheinbar unbedeutende Aufgabe zu Ende bringen.« (S.65) ✨ »Das Licht in uns« [orig.
After Becoming I was curious about this new book from Michelle Obama and it didn't disappoint. I enjoyed every page, every story and every advice. As she mentions in the book, we as the reader can do with this stories and advises what we want and she doesn't claim that this is how you should do certain things in order to get where you want to be.
Description
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.
“When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.
Book Information
Posts
Life lesson book that declares itself not to be one.
Michelle might be a likable person with a background that might indicate hardship along the way. To rise from something someone might have declared ghetto to the whitehouse is a feat - some might say. I think it happened by chance. She met a person that had the ambition to be at a countries top. She might be a good mother but my mother and my mothers mother are that too. This is a book by a famous person, displaying their views because it seems appropriate. She has no special trait, no ability, nothing to show for except living in a big place. Why 3 stars? Because it is still a good book. A reminder to reflect about certain talking points with a fresh perspective from -just- another human being. I do think michelle is a nice person and i truly believe she would agree with me here.
Ein Stück amerikanische Geschichte, aber vor allem eine Geschichte über Menschen.
Vorab: auf der Liste der Personen, die ich gerne mal treffen würde, steht Michelle Obama ziemlich weit oben. Es ist also keine Überraschung, dass mir gefällt, was sie sagt und schreibt, wie sie immer vom Guten in Menschen ausgeht und nicht von den Verfehlungen; was sie in Bezug auf den "Zustand der Gesellschaft" zu sagen hat; was zum Thema Gleichberechtigung, Rassismus, Feminismus, Zusammenleben und Miteinander-Umgehen. In "The Light we Carry" geht es darum, wie man in der heutigen Zeit sein Licht erhält. Und da ist es egal, ob man in den USA lebt oder in Deutschland. So unterschiedlich, wie wir immer glauben zu sein, sind wir nicht. Die menschlichen Bedürfnisse und Ängste sind überall gleich. Michelle Obama bietet Perspektiven und ein paar praktische Tipps. Was mir aber nicht gefallen hat, ist der ausschweifende Schreibstil. Sie kommt nur langsam zum Punkt, das macht das Lesen etwas schwer - dafür ist der Punkt immer gut. 😊
»Kleine Siege, das habe ich herausgefunden, bleiben nicht immer folgenlos. Ein winziger Schub reicht manchmal aus, um den nächsten auszulösen, und eine Tätigkeit, die unser Gleichgewicht wiederherstellt, bewirkt noch mehr. Wir können uns selbst stufenweise zu größeren Handlungen und größerer Wirkung hinsteuern, indem wir uns zum Beispiel einfach an einer neuen Sache versuchen und eine scheinbar unbedeutende Aufgabe zu Ende bringen.« (S.65) ✨ »Das Licht in uns« [orig.
After Becoming I was curious about this new book from Michelle Obama and it didn't disappoint. I enjoyed every page, every story and every advice. As she mentions in the book, we as the reader can do with this stories and advises what we want and she doesn't claim that this is how you should do certain things in order to get where you want to be.