Hillbilly Elegy
commit to one D.C. law firm, he suggested another firm where two of his friends from the Bush administration had recently taken ...
blindly, I came to know what I wanted out of the experience—to work for someone I respected, to learn as much as I could, and to ...
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of things I didn’t know when I got to Yale Law School: That you needed to wear a suit to a job inte ...
different substances. That your shoes and belt should match. That certain cities and states had better job prospects. That going ...
the fact is that I was remarkably ignorant of how to get ahead. Not knowing things that many others do often has serious economi ...
Chapter 14 As I started my second year of law school, I felt like I’d made it. Fresh off a summer job at the U.S. Senate, I retu ...
her addiction and better than the father figures who’d walked out on me. I regretted only that Mamaw and Papaw weren’t around to ...
scream at her when she did something I didn’t like, but that seemed mean. Or I could withdraw and get away. Those were the prove ...
guilty and desperately afraid. For so much of my life, I’d made Mom out to be a kind of villain. And now I was acting like her. ...
I yelled. “You’re just making an excuse for weakness. I didn’t get here by making excuses for failure.” I stormed out of the roo ...
escaper. I was near Ford’s Theatre, the historic location where John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. About half a block from ...
Ford’s Theatre. She had run after me, worried about me being alone. I realized then that I had a problem—that I must confront wh ...
a hug and told me that she accepted my apology and was glad I was okay. That was the end of it. Usha hadn’t learned how to fight ...
expected to hear a rant about character flaws. What I heard instead was sympathy and a little sadness but primarily a life lesso ...
Lindsay’s life “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs. ACEs are traumatic childhood events, and their consequences reach far i ...
drug user living with someone who was depressed or attempted suicide watching a loved one be physically abused. ACEs happen ev ...
had multiple ACEs. This is really striking—four in every ten working- class people had faced multiple instances of childhood tra ...
Children with multiple ACEs are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression, to suffer from heart disease and obesity, a ...
after all, is triggered by a physiological reaction. It’s the consequence of adrenaline and other hormones flooding our system, ...
put it, the response is great “if you’re in a forest and there’s a bear. The problem is when that bear comes home from the bar e ...
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