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In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.

Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves, our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, and communities.

In her research, Fonda discovered two metaphors, the arch and the staircase, that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way, as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review, and she shows how you can do a life review too. She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns, to see what means the most to her, and then to cultivate new goals and dreams, to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution, and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks, what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health), diet (how to eat by color), meditation, and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity, and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.

In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life—what she called Acts I and II—with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life, and especially Act III, Prime Time.

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Jane Fonda is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress and highly successful producer. She revolutionized the fitness industry with the Jane Fonda Workout in 1982 and has sold more than seventeen million copies of her fitness-focused books, videos, and recordings. She is involved with several causes and is the founder of both the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and the Jane Fonda Center at Emory University. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller My Life So Far, and she received a Tony nomination in 2009 for her role in 33 Variations. She lives in Los Angeles.

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PREFACE

The Arch and the Staircase

The past empowers the present, and the groping

footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways

to the future.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

Several years ago, i was coming to the end of my sixties

and facing my seventies, the second decade of what I thought of as

the Third Act of my life— Act III, which, as I see it, begins at age

sixty. I was worried. Being in my sixties was one thing. Given good

health, we can fudge our sixties. But seventy—now, that’s serious.

In our grandparents’ time, people in their seventies were considered

part of the “old old” . . . on their way out.

However, a revolution has occurred within the last century—

a longevity revolution. Studies show that, on average, thirty- four

years have been added to human life expectancy, moving it from an

average of forty- six years to eighty! This addition represents an

entire second adult lifetime, and whether we choose to confront it

or not, it changes everything, including what it means to be human.

Adding a Room

The social anthropologist (and a friend of mine) Mary Catherine

Bateson has a metaphor for living with this longer life span in view.

She writes in her recent book

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active

Wisdom,

“We have not added decades to life expectancy by simply

extending old age; instead, we have opened up a new space partway

through the life course, a second and different kind of adulthood

that precedes old age, and as a result every stage of life is undergoing

change.” Bateson uses the identifi able metaphor of what happens

when a new room is added to your home. It isn’t just the new

room that is different; every other part of the house and how it is

used is altered a bit by the addition of this room.

In the house that is our life, things such as planning, marriage,

love, fi nances, parenting, travel, education, physical fi tness, work,

retirement—our very identities, even!—all take on new meaning

now that we can expect to be vital into our eighties and nineties

. . . or longer.

But our culture has not come to grips with the ways the longevity

revolution has altered our lives. Institutionally, so much of how

we do things is the same as it was early in the twentieth century,

with our lives segregated into age- specifi c silos: During the fi rst

third we learn, during the second third we produce, and the last

third we presumably spend on leisure. Consider, instead, how it

would look if we tore down the silos and integrated the activities.

For example, let’s begin to think of learning and working as a lifelong

challenge instead of something that ends when you retire.

What if the wonderfully empowering feeling of being productive

can be experienced by children early in life, and if they know from

fi rst grade that education will be an expected part of their entire

lives? What if the second, traditionally productive silo is braided

with leisure and education? And seniors, with twenty or more productive

years left, can enjoy leisure time while remaining in the

workforce in some form and attending to education if for no other

reason than to challenge their minds? Envisioned this way, longevity

becomes like a symphony with echoes of different times recurring

with slight modifi cations, as in music, across the life arc.

Except that we don’t have the sheet music to this new symphony.

We— today’s boomers and seniors— are the pioneer generations,

the ones who need to compose together a template for how

to maximize the potential of this amazing gift of time, so as to

become whole, fully realized people over the longer life arc.

In attempting to chart a course for myself into my sixties and

beyond, I’ve found it helpful to view the symphony of my own life

in three acts, or three major developmental stages: Act I, the fi rst

three decades; Act II, the middle three decades; and Act III, the

fi nal three decades (or however many more years one is granted).

As I searched for ways to understand the new realities of aging,

I discovered the arch and the staircase.

The Arch and the Staircase

Here you see two diagrams that I have had drawn, because they

make visualizable two conceptions of human life that have come to

mean a lot to me.

One diagram, the arch, represents a biological concept, taking

us from childhood to a middle peak of maturity, followed by a

decline into infi rmity.

The other, a staircase, shows our potential for upward progression

toward wisdom, spiritual growth, learning— toward, in other

words, consciousness and soul.

The vision behind these diagrams was developed by Rudolf Arnheim,

the late professor emeritus of the psychology of art at Harvard

University, and for me they are clear metaphors for ways we can choose

to view aging. Our youth- obsessed culture encourages us to focus

on the arch—age as physical decline— more than on the stairway— age

as potential for continued development and ascent. But it is the stairway

that points to late life’s promise, even in the face of physical

decline. Perhaps it should be a spiral staircase! Because the wisdom,

balance, refl ection, and compassion that this upward movement represents

don’t just come to us in one linear ascension; they circle around

us, beckoning us to keep climbing, to keep looking both back and

ahead.

Rehearsing the Future

Throughout my life, whenever I was confronted by something I

feared, I tried to make it my best friend, stare it in the face, and get

to know its ins and outs. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain

strength, courage, and confi dence by every experience in which you

really stop to look fear in the face.” I have found this to be true.

This is how I discovered that knowledge about what lies ahead can

empower me, help me conquer my fears, take the wind out of the

sails of my anxiety. Know thine enemy! Remember Rumpelstiltskin,

the evil dwarf in the Grimms’ fairy tale? He was destroyed

once the miller’s daughter learned his name and called it out. When

we name our fears, bring them out into the open, and examine

them in the light, they weaken and wither.

So, one of the ways I have tried to overcome my fears of aging

involved rehearsing for it. In fact, I started doing this in Act II. I

believe that this rehearsal for the future (along with doing a life

review of the past) is part of why I have been able— so far— to live

Act III with relative equanimity.

Being with my father when he was in his late seventies and in

decline due to heart problems was what began to shatter any childhood

illusions I’d had of immortality. I was in my mid- forties, and it

hit me that with him gone, I would be the oldest one left in the family

and, before too long, next at the turnstile. I realized then that it was

not so much the idea of death itself that frightened me as it was being

faced with regrets, the “what if”s and the “if only”s when there is no

time left to do anything about them. I didn’t want to arrive at the end

of the Third Act and discover too late all that I had not done.

I began to feel the need to project myself into the future, to

visualize who I wanted to be and what regrets I might have that I

would need to address before I got too old. I wanted to understand

as much as possible what cards age would deal me; what I could

realistically expect of myself physically; how much of aging was

negotiable; and what I needed to do to intervene on my own behalf

with what appeared to be a downward slope.

The birth of my two children had taught me the importance of

knowledge and preparation. The fi rst birth had been a terrifying,

lonely experience; I went through it unprepared and unrehearsed,

swept along passively in a sea of pain. The second birth was quite

the opposite. My husband and I worked with a birth educator in

the months leading up to my due date, so that I was able to visualize

what would happen and know what to do. The physical ordeal

was no less grueling, the process no faster, but the experience itself

was transformed. With knowledge and rehearsal, I found it easier

to ride atop the sequence of events rather than be totally submerged

by the pain.

I brought what I’d learned from childbirth to my experience

facing late midlife. As I said, I was scared back then— it is hard to

let go of children, of the success that came with youth, of old identities

when new ones aren’t yet clearly defi ned. I felt I could choose

whether to be blindly propelled into later life, in denial with my

eyes wide shut, or I could take charge and seek out what I needed

to know in order to make informed decisions in the many changing

areas of my life. That’s why, in 1984, at age forty- six, before I’d even

had my fi rst hot fl ash, I wrote

Women Coming of Age,

with Mignon

McCarthy, about what women can expect, physically, as they age,

and what parts of aging are negotiable. It was a way to force myself

to confront and rehearse the future. I was shocked to discover how

little research had been devoted to women’s health. Most medical

studies I found had been done on men. I’m happy to say this has

started to change.

At forty- six, I began to envision the old woman I wished to be,

and I described her in that book:

I see an old woman wal...                                                               

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书籍介绍

In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.

Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves, our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, and communities.

In her research, Fonda discovered two metaphors, the arch and the staircase, that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way, as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review, and she shows how you can do a life review too. She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns, to see what means the most to her, and then to cultivate new goals and dreams, to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution, and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks, what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health), diet (how to eat by color), meditation, and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity, and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.

In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life—what she called Acts I and II—with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life, and especially Act III, Prime Time .

• 作者：刘佳昕Ariel 发布时间：2013-08-12 22:34:58

  为收集学校的双语标语而买的。这本书摸起来很精致，插图简单但比较生动。/内容少，不太深刻。

• 作者：三童 发布时间：2012-02-10 17:13:15

  这不是一本“从书本到书本”的书，它来自幼儿园第一线。作者曾担任幼儿园心理老师，积累了大量案例和观察笔记。——这是一本十分有趣的幼儿观察手记，也是一本通俗易懂的幼儿心理入门书！

• 作者：原祖義 发布时间：2019-07-08 12:13:56

  系统 理论

• 作者：夏天的风 发布时间：2023-04-16 18:31:21

  孩子是教育的主体，却是教育议题的缺席者。

  给孩子一个发声的机会吧，仅仅是好好倾听，就能给他们带去力量。

• 作者：伦2008 发布时间：2021-11-08 00:18:45

  装帧精美、浮雕皮料封面、硬盒卡套、附赠插画。是日历圈的颜值担当！

  日历内容详实，堪称移动的大英博物馆。365张插画，优中选优！

  12主题、12万文字，将陪伴你我走过全年12个月的时光！

  365天的打磨，365张美图， 为人生增添365个期待

  扫描二维码，可以聆听图片背后的秘密

  隐藏用途：随身秘书 伴手好礼 出圈爆品 摆酷神器

  据说125本中有一本带有隐藏款“恭喜发财”卡。别拉我，我再去买一本！

• 作者：Malinconico 发布时间：2023-11-30 06:59:35

  这本书主要讨论近时期大型哺乳动物灭绝的原因。包含大量数据和史料和文献引用，详细介绍了“过度猎杀说”“环境灾变论”，以及其他如“超级疾病假说”“天外物体撞击地球假说”“食物网崩溃说”等（其实还是环境变化导致），切口小而具体。

  接触到了很多生态学以及古生物学专有名词，非常涨知识。书里面还有大量精美的彩色复原图，喜欢！

• 与法兰斯•约翰森斗智斗勇

  作者：水秀乡 发布时间：2014-01-16 20:27:16

      读《运气生猛》的过程，是我和男主角，也就是本书的作者法兰斯•约翰森斗智斗勇的过程。

      封面上雷军的一句话，直接把我逗乐了——只要站在风口前，猪也能飞上天。

      翻开第一个故事，就走入了一个棋局。全书由各色各样的故事串起，纵横交错，枝枝蔓蔓，一旦踏入，不走到最后一步，你是绝不甘心的。

      从那个获奖无数的美剧《迷失》，曾被所有人视为垃圾的命运转折，到耐克帝国缘起于一块早餐松饼，从因为一场演说成为总统的奥巴马，到诺基亚的衰落，一路看一路想，这个法兰斯•约翰森究竟在摆什么迷魂阵？他究竟要说的是什么？尽管每个故事都那么有趣诱人，但是我仍然不屈不挠，我不甘心总被法兰斯•约翰森狡黠的笑容蒙蔽，我下决心必须要从故事中从字面中抓到他的狐狸尾巴，他费尽心机说了一路，居心何在？既然一切归功于运气，那这本书的存在又有什么必要？

      但是他的一个观点，我是认同的。那就是，成功无法复制。这也就是我对很多成功励志类的书籍诱人的旗号本能规避的原因。如果照章办理，岂不是人人都能成功？那这个世界上沉默的大多数，也就没有理由居于金字塔的低端了。

      再看下去，让我顿悟的那个气口终于被抓到。那就是“一万小时定律成就的天才”和“《暮光之城》的一举成名”的对比。

      前者强调，成功多半并非取决于才华，而是大约一万个小时练习的结果。以安德斯•艾瑞克森的研究为例，将小提琴家分为三个等级：表现良好、优异、大师级。一般人认为他们表现迥异的原因是天分。实则不然，投入练习的时间才是成就有差异的关键。最优异的人群他们的练习时间全部加起来，就是约等于1万个小时的密集练习，而成为音乐老师的人练习时间仅有4000个小时。马友友、小威廉斯的成功就属于这一类。

      后者则全然不同。不谙写作的主妇，因为一个偶然出现的梦境，打造了畅销巨著《暮光之城》。虽然热爱写作，但在做那个梦之前的6年时间里，她什么也没有写过。更别说发表作品了。有些人甚至认为梅尔是有史以来写作技巧最烂的畅销书作家。尤其让人诧异的是，梅尔根本不了解真正的吸血鬼文化，换言之，吸血鬼应有的特质在她笔下全盘颠覆。

      读到此处，我可能明白了法兰斯•约翰森的主旨所在——

      在强调规则的层面上，成功来自于反复的持续的深入练习与推进。而在不强调规则或者说规则总在不断更新和推翻重建的层面上，不按牌理出牌才是最最重要！

      在我的认知中，现在大学的专业选择、图书选题的一哄而上就是最鲜明的佐证。越进行分析、越进行预测，反倒越容易陷入复制哄抢，越容易一败涂地。

      书的后半截，作者阐述了“运气无法预测，但是可以掌握。”核心观点是：第一，改变命运时刻：第二，下注；第三，善加利用复杂动力。

      但是，哈哈，对于我这等不服管教、水泥脑袋的人来说，他的这些唠唠叨叨还是比不上一直不断的有趣的故事来得吸引我。咱不想成功，咱只想找个乐子。所以，他那些黄金点子还是留给向往成功的人吧，我只要故事，我要自己得出结论，这点，法兰斯•约翰森能奈我何？

      结论，他用贯穿全书的有趣故事拉我下水，我用自得其乐回敬了他！

      我们，打个平手！

• Amozon上复制下来的

  作者：water ' color 发布时间：2011-07-07 09:29:08

  Amozon上复制下来的，一个读过三本离散数学的人写的评论。另外，我认为对外文经典也应谨慎挑选。

  http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Applications-Kenneth-Rosen/product-reviews/0073229725/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

  I have read "Discrete Mathematics" by Epp, Rosen and Ross which are the three most common discrete math texts that I encounter at university.

  Of these three, I would rate Epp's book as my favorite because it has the clearest explanations and is so easy to read that you can't help but feel like you understand all of the content completely. The only failing that Epp's book might have is that it is not as thorough in its coverage of the material as some of the more technical books. I would say that it covers about 90% of the material and leaves out some of the more obscure topics.

  Rosen's book would be the most thorough, covering every topic in meticulous detail and offering a jumping point for other texts in cryptography and number theory. Although this book is more complete than Epp's, it is also less readable and requires more effort to get through. Ideally you would use Epp's book to learn the material and then go to Rosen's book for a technical reference.

  For those of you who are considering Ross's book, I have one thing to say and that is don't. Although I have read this book and done a lot of the problems in the first 3/4 of the text, this book is neither clear in its explanations like Epp nor is it as complete as Rosen's book. If you are assigned this book for a course, my suggestion would be to buy Epp's book and photocopy the Ross homework problems from a friend's textbook.

  Take the advice of someone who has read all three books. If you have to buy just one, then get the Epp book. It is better to understand 90% of the material completely rather than 100% of the material partially.