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The Enterprise of Living: Growth and Organization in Personality
Theory, clinical experimentation, life history, and personal observation are combined in a broad descriptive and conceptual examination of personality development.
- GenresPsychology
536 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1972
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April 2, 2026
Have you given away something you later regretted giving away? Or lost something you particularly treasured? Have you sold something you later wished you hadn’t?
I lost my Australian Bronze Cross (lifesaving), somehow, somewhere.
I gave away my black leather bomber jacket after 20 years, but I should have kept it.
And when I had a radical change in academic direction from law to arts I discovered psychology, which was a revelation, a subject I could immerse myself in and indulge in an orgy of self-analysis, as an antidote to an emotionally restricted upbringing. The best book I studied became a personal guide to enlightenment, Robert White’s The Enterprise of Living, written with a refreshing absence of jargon and theory: a sensible guide to growing up, being part of a family, relations with siblings, peers, colleagues and communities. It was light bulb popping time.
After the course, moving on to new subjects, I gave away or sold The Enterprise of Living and regretted it, not immediately but soon enough thereafter.
Not many books do I regret moving on, but this is one of them.
I lost my Australian Bronze Cross (lifesaving), somehow, somewhere.
I gave away my black leather bomber jacket after 20 years, but I should have kept it.
And when I had a radical change in academic direction from law to arts I discovered psychology, which was a revelation, a subject I could immerse myself in and indulge in an orgy of self-analysis, as an antidote to an emotionally restricted upbringing. The best book I studied became a personal guide to enlightenment, Robert White’s The Enterprise of Living, written with a refreshing absence of jargon and theory: a sensible guide to growing up, being part of a family, relations with siblings, peers, colleagues and communities. It was light bulb popping time.
After the course, moving on to new subjects, I gave away or sold The Enterprise of Living and regretted it, not immediately but soon enough thereafter.
Not many books do I regret moving on, but this is one of them.
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