The bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like takes us on an insightful, joyful tour of the Transformative powers of starting something new, no matter your age.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York..
He has been a visiting scholar at NYU\'s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, a research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space, and a winner of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, among other honors.
He has appeared on a wide range of television and radio programs, from the Today show to the BBC\'s World Service to NPR\'s Fresh Air .
He is author of You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice , Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) , and Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America .
He is a contributing editor of Wired UK , Outside, and Artforum.
About author(s): TOM Vanderbilt has written for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine , T he Wall Street Journal Magazine , Popular Science , Financial Times , Smithsonian, and London Review of Books , among many others.
At its heart, Beginners inspires us to take small acts of reinvention, and rediscover the magic of learning.
Building on his personal insight from his year of Learning dangerously with engaging and instructive studies, Vanderbilt shows how anyone can get better at beginning again--and, more importantly, why we should take those awkward first steps.
Rapturously singing Spice Girls in an amateur choir, losing chess matches to kids still Learning to tie their shoes, and dodging scorpions at a surf camp in Costa Rica, Vanderbilt weaves his own experience with comprehensive, insightful research, and finds that the circuitous path it takes to learn new skills takes us on an unexpected journey of self-discovery and fulfillment.
Old dogs can\'t learn new tricks, or so the saying goes, but Vanderbilt wanted to fight the rut of mid-career competence and decided to embark upon a year of Learning purely for the sake of learning.
Noticing his daughter\'s insatiable curiosity about the world, Tom Vanderbilt asked himself why so many of us stop Learning new skills as adults.
The bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like takes us on an insightful, joyful tour of the Transformative powers of starting something new, no matter your age
