As the twentieth century draws to a close, a quick review of its
major events reveals a death toll associated with far too many of
them. Two world wars, a cold war, and numerous, smaller (yet still
deadly) "hot wars" reflect the brutality of an age. But despite the
widespread inhumanity epitomized by the Holocaust (which George
Klein, the author, himself barely escaped), some individuals have
triumphed over situations that would physically or emotionally
destroy most others. How does this happen? What gives these
remarkable people the ability to persevere against the most
impossible odds? Live Now: Inspiring Accounts of Overcoming
Adversity answers these questions by offering the fascinating and
moving stories of three men close to the author. These men, "flow
addicts", to use the terminology of psychologist and author of the
book's foreword Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, survive through intense
concentration, through selflessness, and through a genuine
altruism. The first, Ali Elovic, fought on several fronts in World
War II and was forced to endure the horrors of Nazi and Communist
prisons, but still maintained his thirst for life, emerging as a
successful businessman. The second, Nobel Prize-winning virologist
Carleton Gajdusek, used his extraordinary scientific talent to
escape conventional life and to provide a home and education to
more than thirty youths from "primitive" cultures in New Zealand,
Australia, and other places. The third, Klein's Uncle Miska, lost
his entire family as well as his whole ethnic and religious group
to the Holocaust, yet he was able to return to his home village,
all alone, and become the universally loved director of the region.
These men, in order to escape sorrow and weariness, chose an active
commitment, a psychological state of timelessness and euphoria,
that imparted tremendous inner strength and provided an antidote to
the poisons of our times. Through the examples of their lives,
readers can learn to achieve the same.
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