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This strange life
I wanted to tell about this person in such a way that it would stick to the facts and be interesting. It is rather difficult to reconcile both of these requirements. Facts are interesting when you don't have to stick to them. One could try to find some fresh device and, using it, build an entertaining plot from the facts. To have mystery and struggle and danger. And so that with all this, reliability is preserved.
It was customary to portray, for example, this man as a soldered lone fighter against powerful opponents. One against all. Even better - all against one. Injustice immediately attracts sympathy. But in reality it was just - one against all. He attacked. He jumped first and crushed. The meaning of his scientific struggle was quite complex and controversial. It was a real scientific struggle, where no one manages to be completely right. It was possible to attribute a simpler problem to him, to add, but then it was inconvenient to leave a real surname. Then it was necessary to abandon many other surnames. But then no one would believe me. In addition, I wanted to pay tribute to this person, to show what a person is capable of.
Of course, authenticity interfered, tied hands. Much easier to deal with a fictional character. He is both accommodating and frank - the author knows all his thoughts and intentions, both his past and his future.
I had another task: to introduce all useful information into the reader, to give descriptions - of course, amazing, surprising, but, unfortunately, unsuitable for a literary work. They were more suitable for a popular science essay. Imagine inserting a description of fencing in the middle of The Three Musketeers. The reader will surely skip these pages. And I had to get the reader to read my information, because this is the most important thing ...
I wanted a lot of people to read about him, for the sake of this, in essence, this thing was started.
... It was also quite possible to pick up a secret on the hook. The promise of a secret, a mystery - it always attracts, especially since this mystery is not invented: I really struggled for a long time over the diaries and archives of my hero, and everything that I extracted from there was a discovery for me, a clue to the secret of an amazing life.
However, to be honest, this mystery is not accompanied by adventures, pursuit, is not associated with intrigues and dangers.
The secret is about how to live better. And here, too, one can arouse curiosity by declaring that this thing - about the most instructive example of the best structure of life - provides a unique System of Life.
“Our System allows you to achieve great success in any field, in any profession!”
"The system provides the highest achievements with the most ordinary abilities!"
“You get not an abstract system, but a guaranteed, proven by many years of experience, affordable, productive…”
"Minimum cost - maximum effect!"
"The best in the world!.."
One could promise the reader to tell about an outstanding person of the 20th century unknown to him. To give a portrait of a moral hero, with such lofty rules of morality as seem old-fashioned today. The life he lived is outwardly the most ordinary, according to some signs, even unlucky; from the point of view of the layman, he is a typical loser, but according to the inner meaning, he was a harmonious and happy person, and his happiness was of the highest standard. Frankly, I thought that people of this magnitude had grown up, these are dinosaurs ...
As in the old days the lands were discovered, as astronomers discover the stars, so a writer may be lucky enough to discover a person. There are great discoveries of characters and types: Goncharov discovered Oblomov, Turgenev - Bazarov, Cervantes - Don Quixote.
It was also a discovery, not of a general type, but, as it were, of a personal one, mine, and not of a type, but rather of an ideal; however, this word did not fit. Lyubishchev was also not suitable for the ideal ...
I was sitting in a large uncomfortable auditorium. The bare lightbulb sharply illuminated the gray hairs and bald spots, the smooth combs of the graduate students, the long tufts and fashionable wigs, and the curly blackness of the Negroes. Professors, doctors, students, journalists, historians, biologists... Most of all there were mathematicians, because it happened at their faculty - the first meeting in memory of Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev.
I didn't expect so many people to come. And especially the youth. Perhaps they were driven by curiosity. Because they knew little about Lyubishchev. Not a biologist, not a mathematician. Amateur? Lover? Seems like an amateur. But the postal official from Toulouse - the great Fermat - was also an amateur ... Lyubishchev - who is he? Not a vitalist, not a positivist or an idealist, in any case - a heretic.
And the speakers also did not clarify. Some considered him a biologist, others - a historian of science, others - an entomologist, others - a philosopher ...
Each of the speakers had a new Lyubishchev. Everyone had their own interpretation, their own assessments.
For some, Lyubishev turned out to be a revolutionary, a rebel, challenging the dogmas of evolution and genetics. For others, the kindest figure of a Russian intellectual, inexhaustibly tolerant of his opponents, arose.
- ... In any philosophy, a living critical and creative thought was valuable to him!
- ... His strength was in the continuous generation of ideas, he raised questions, he woke up the thought!
- ... As one of the great mathematicians noted, brilliant geometers propose a theorem, talented ones prove it. So he was the proposer.
“…He was too scattered, he should have focused on systematics and not wasted himself on philosophical problems.
- ... Alexander Alexandrovich is an example of concentration, purposefulness of the creative spirit, he has been consistent throughout his life ...
- ... The gift of a mathematician determined his worldview ...
- ... The breadth of his philosophical education made it possible to rethink the problem of the origin of species.
- ... He was a rationalist!
- ...Vitalist!
- ... A visionary, a person who is fond of, an intuitionist!
For many years they had known Lyubishchev, with his work, but each told about the Lyubishchev he knew.
They had, of course, represented his versatility before. But only now, listening to each other, they realized that each knew only part of Lyubishchev.
The week before I had spent reading his diaries and letters, delving into the history of his mind's worries. I started reading aimlessly. Just other people's letters. Just well-written testimonies of someone else’s soul, past worries, past anger, memorable to me too, because I once thought about the same thing, but didn’t think it through ...
I soon became convinced that I did not know Lyubishchev. That is, I knew, I met him, I understood that he was a rare person, but I did not suspect the scale of his personality. With shame I confessed to myself that I considered him an eccentric, a wise, dear eccentric, and it was bitter that I had missed many opportunities to be with him. So many times I was going to go to him in Ulyanovsk, and everything seemed to be in time.
How many times has life taught me not to put off anything. Life, if you think about it, is a patient caretaker, she again and again brought me together with the most interesting people of our century, and I was in a hurry somewhere and often hurried past, putting it off for later. Why did I put it off, where did I hurry? Now these past hurries seem so insignificant, and the losses - so insulting and, most importantly, irreparable.
The student sitting next to me shrugged his shoulders in bewilderment, unable to combine the contradictory stories of the speakers into one.
Only a year had passed after the death of Lyubishchev - and it was no longer possible to understand what he really was.
The departed belongs to everyone, nothing can be done about it. The speakers selected from Lyubishchev what they liked, or what they needed as arguments, arguments. As they told, they also built their own stories. Over the years, their portraits will turn out to be something average, or rather, acceptable, average, devoid of contradictions, riddles - smoothed and little recognizable.
This average will be explained, it will be determined in what he was mistaken and in what he was ahead of his time, they will be made completely understandable. And lifeless. If, of course, he succumbs. Above the pulpit hung a large photograph in a black frame - an old bald man, wrinkling his drooping nose, scratching his head. He looked puzzled, either at the audience or at the speakers, as if deciding what other thing to throw out. And it was clear that all these clever speeches, theories now have nothing to do with that old man, who can no longer be seen and who was so needed right now. I'm too used to what it is. It was enough for me to know that somewhere there is a person with whom I can talk about everything and ask about everything.
When a person dies, much is revealed, much becomes known. And our attitude towards the deceased is summed up. I felt it in the speeches of the speakers. They had certainty. Lyubishchev's life appeared before them complete, now they decided to think it over, to sum it up. And it was clear that now many of his ideas would be recognized, many of his works would be published and republished. For some reason, the dead have more rights, they are allowed more ...
"This Strange Life" is a book by the Russian writer Daniil Granin, which has been reprinted many times over more than forty years of its existence. In his work, the writer tells about the life of Alexander Lyubishchev, a famous Soviet biologist and mathematician. His way of life, in a sense, can indeed be called strange. This person is considered one of the founders of time management, although it used to be called differently.
Many people strive to plan their time, but every now and then deviate from the plan, because life sometimes surprises. And sometimes this is done deliberately. It is difficult to imagine someone who is able to constantly control all his affairs, who will know what he will do tomorrow, in a month or a year. And Alexander Lyubishchev knew this. All his life he lived according to a clearly written plan and went to his goals. With almost 100% probability, everything that he planned happened.
The ability to control one's time and for many, many years to follow one's own created laws of its distribution evoke a feeling of deep respect. The scientist greatly appreciated every moment of his life and that is why he was able to make a great contribution to science. He, like a true scientist, questioned everything, and only facts could convince him. His diaries have a clear structure and accurately describe what was happening in his life at a particular point in time. This not only surprises and delights, but also motivates, showing that you can do a lot in life if you only know how to manage your time.
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Title: This Strange Life
Author: Daniil Granin
Year: 1974
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Management, Recruitment
About the book "This Strange Life" by Daniil Granin
Daniil Granin is a famous Russian prose writer, one of the leading publicists in the Soviet period. He grew up in Leningrad, graduated from the Electromechanical Department of the Polytechnic Institute and got a job as an engineer at the Kirov Plant, where he was caught by the Second World War. Daniil Aleksandrovich volunteered for the front, rose from private to officer and was awarded military orders.
At the end of the war, Daniil Granin worked for some time at the research institute as a graduate student, but since 1954 he completely switched to literary activity. Its main themes were the moral problems of scientific and technical creativity. He wrote biographies of academicians, physicists and mathematicians, revealing the inner world of brilliant people. The author in his works has always tried to show the struggle between the principled people of science and bureaucrats.
The work "This Strange Life" is the life story of a talented Russian biologist and mathematician Alexander Lyubishchev. Daniil Alexandrovich managed to very subtly convey the inner feelings of the scientist, his disagreement with the charter and the struggle with the system. The author showed Lyubishchev as a purposeful and strong person, but a little strange, like all brilliant personalities.
Alexander Lyubishchev was an incredibly pedantic person. He sought to rationalize time and appreciated every minute. The book "This Strange Life" vividly describes the creation of a unique time system of the scientist, according to which he lived until the last days. The essence of this development is very close to the canons of time management, therefore it is Lyubishchev who is credited with the authorship of the modern system.
The work "This Strange Life" fully justifies its name. The author tells the life story of a very unusual person. Alexander Lyubishchev was so passionate about his work that he absolutely did not recognize authorities and, like a real scientist, questioned everything. It was this quality that helped him move forward in scientific activity and make new discoveries. The scientist managed to plan his time for years ahead with an accuracy of 1% and stubbornly follow a clearly drawn up scenario. Neither changes in the country, nor personal tragedies could lead him astray.
In the book “This Strange Life”, Daniil Granin claims that Lyubishchev, following the system of temporary accounting, read a huge number of books, wrote many reviews and articles. Until the last days, the scientist kept a diary, more like a mathematical journal, where he noted the various events of his life in time.
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It would seem that all the efforts of modern man are aimed at saving Time. For this, an electric razor and an escalator are created; for this we fly on high-speed planes, for this we rush in the subway or on the freeway. And time is running out! And we “do not have enough time to read, to write long letters that people once wrote to each other; we do not have enough time to love, to communicate, to visit, to admire sunsets and sunrises, to walk thoughtlessly through the fields ... Where does Time disappear to? Where does this growing time pressure come from?! We save it, but it's getting smaller and smaller! And a person does not have time to be a person. A person does not have time to prove himself as a person - he does not have time to realize either what is inherent in him by nature, or to realize his abilities, his plans, his dreams.
Ethics has no units of measurement. Even in the eternal and general definitions - kind, evil, sincere, cruel - we are helplessly confused, not knowing what to compare with, how to understand who is really kind and who is kind, and what true decency means, where are the criteria for these qualities.
When the famous histologist Nevmyvaki was asked how he could study the structure of the worm all his life, he was surprised: “The worm is so long, but life is so short!”
Life is in a hurry if we ourselves are slow.
Who am I? I am an amateur, a universal amateur. The word comes from the Italian diletto, which means pleasure. That is, a person who enjoys the process of any work.
I noticed a long time ago that people who know how to work have enough time. No, perhaps it would be better to say otherwise: they have more time than others.
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This strange life
I wanted to tell about this person in such a way that it would stick to the facts and be interesting. It is rather difficult to reconcile both of these requirements. Facts are interesting when you don't have to stick to them. One could try to find some fresh device and, using it, build an entertaining plot from the facts. To have mystery and struggle and danger. And so that with all this, reliability is preserved.
It was customary to portray, for example, this man as a soldered lone fighter against powerful opponents. One against all. Even better - all against one. Injustice immediately attracts sympathy. But in reality it was just - one against all. He attacked. He jumped first and crushed. The meaning of his scientific struggle was quite complex and controversial. It was a real scientific struggle, where no one manages to be completely right. It was possible to attribute a simpler problem to him, to add, but then it was inconvenient to leave a real surname. Then it was necessary to abandon many other surnames. But then no one would believe me. In addition, I wanted to pay tribute to this person, to show what a person is capable of.
Of course, authenticity interfered, tied hands. Much easier to deal with a fictional character. He is both accommodating and frank - the author knows all his thoughts and intentions, both his past and his future.
I had another task: to introduce all useful information into the reader, to give descriptions - of course, amazing, amazing, but, unfortunately, unsuitable for a literary work. They were more suitable for a popular science essay. Imagine inserting a description of fencing in the middle of The Three Musketeers. The reader will surely skip these pages. And I had to get the reader to read my information, because this is the most important thing ...
I wanted a lot of people to read about him, for the sake of this, in essence, this thing was started.
On the hook of the secret, too, it was quite possible to pick up. The promise of a secret, a mystery - it always attracts, especially since this mystery is not invented: I really struggled for a long time over the diaries and archives of my hero, and everything that I extracted from there was a discovery for me, a clue to the secret of an amazing life.
However, to be honest, this mystery is not accompanied by adventures, pursuit, is not associated with intrigues and dangers.
The secret is about how to live better. And here, too, one can arouse curiosity by declaring that this thing - about the most instructive example of the best structure of life - provides a unique System of Life.
“Our System allows you to achieve great success in any field, in any profession!”
"The system provides the highest achievements with the most ordinary abilities!"
“You get not an abstract system, but a guaranteed, proven by many years of experience, affordable, productive...”
"Minimum cost - maximum effect!"
"The best in the world!.."
One could promise the reader to tell about an outstanding person of the 20th century unknown to him. To give a portrait of a moral hero, with such lofty rules of morality as seem old-fashioned today. The life he lived is outwardly the most ordinary, according to some signs, even unlucky; from the point of view of the layman, he is a typical loser, but according to the inner meaning, he was a harmonious and happy person, and his happiness was of the highest standard. Frankly, I thought that people of this magnitude had grown up, these are dinosaurs ...
As in the old days the lands were discovered, as astronomers discover the stars, so a writer may be lucky enough to discover a person. There are great discoveries of characters and types: Goncharov discovered Oblomov, Turgenev - Bazarov, Cervantes - Don Quixote.
It was also a discovery, not of a general type, but, as it were, of a personal one, mine, and not of a type, but rather of an ideal; however, this word did not fit. Lyubishchev was also not suitable for the ideal ...
I was sitting in a large uncomfortable auditorium. The bare lightbulb sharply illuminated the gray hairs and bald spots, the smooth combs of the graduate students, the long tufts and fashionable wigs, and the curly blackness of the Negroes. Professors, doctors, students, journalists, historians, biologists ... Most of all there were mathematicians, because it happened at their faculty - the first meeting in memory of Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev.
I didn't expect so many people to come. And especially the youth. Perhaps they were driven by curiosity. Because they knew little about Lyubishchev. Not a biologist, not a mathematician. Amateur? Lover? Seems like an amateur. But the postal official from Toulouse - the great Fermat - was also an amateur ... Lyubishchev - who is he? Not a vitalist, not a positivist or an idealist, in any case - a heretic.
And the speakers also did not clarify. Some considered him a biologist, others - a historian of science, others - an entomologist, others - a philosopher ...
Each of the speakers had a new Lyubishchev. Everyone had their own interpretation, their own assessments.
For some, Lyubishev turned out to be a revolutionary, a rebel, challenging the dogmas of evolution and genetics. For others, the kindest figure of a Russian intellectual, inexhaustibly tolerant of his opponents, arose.
In any philosophy, a living critical and creative thought was valuable to him!
His strength was in the continuous generation of ideas, he raised questions, he woke the thought!
As one of the great mathematicians noted, brilliant geometers propose a theorem, talented geometers prove it. So he was the proposer.
He was too scattered, he had to concentrate on systematics and not waste himself on philosophical problems.
Alexander Alexandrovich is an example of concentration, purposefulness of the creative spirit, he consistently throughout his life ...
The gift of a mathematician determined his outlook on the world...
The breadth of his philosophical education made it possible to rethink the problem of the origin of species.
He was a rationalist!
Vitalist!
A dreamer, a person who is fond of, an intuitionist!
For many years they had known Lyubishchev, with his work, but each told about the Lyubishchev he knew.
They had, of course, represented his versatility before. But only now, listening to each other, they realized that each knew only part of Lyubishchev.
The week before I had spent reading his diaries and letters, delving into the history of his mind's worries. I started reading aimlessly. Just other people's letters. Just well-written testimonies of someone else's soul, past worries, past anger, memorable to me too, because I once thought about the same thing, but didn't think it through...
I soon became convinced that I did not know Lyubishchev. That is, I knew, I met him, I understood that he was a rare person, but I did not suspect the scale of his personality. With shame I confessed to myself that I considered him an eccentric, a wise, dear eccentric, and it was bitter that I had missed many opportunities to be with him. So many times I was going to go to him in Ulyanovsk, and everything seemed to be in time.
How many times has life taught me not to put off anything. Life, if you think about it, is a patient caretaker, she again and again brought me together with the most interesting people of our century, and I was in a hurry somewhere and often hurried past, putting it off for later. Why did I put it off, where did I hurry? Now these past hurries seem so insignificant, and the losses - so insulting and, most importantly, irreparable.
The student sitting next to me shrugged his shoulders in bewilderment, unable to combine the contradictory stories of the speakers into one.
Only a year had passed after the death of Lyubishchev - and it was no longer possible to understand what he really was.
The departed belongs to everyone, nothing can be done about it. The speakers selected from Lyubishchev what they liked, or what they needed as arguments, arguments. As they told, they also built their own stories. Over the years, their portraits will turn out to be something average, or rather, acceptable, average, devoid of contradictions, riddles - smoothed and little recognizable.
This average will be explained, it will be determined in what he was mistaken and in what he was ahead of his time, they will be made completely understandable. And lifeless. If, of course, he succumbs. Above the pulpit hung a large photograph in a black frame - an old bald man, wrinkling his drooping nose, scratching his head. He looked puzzled, either at the audience or at the speakers, as if deciding what other thing to throw out. And it was clear that all these clever speeches, theories now have nothing to do with that old man, who can no longer be seen and who was so needed right now. I'm too used to what it is. It was enough for me to know that somewhere there is a person with whom I can talk about everything and ask about everything.
When a person dies, much is revealed, much becomes known. And our attitude towards the deceased is summed up. I felt it in the speeches of the speakers. They had certainty. Lyubishchev's life appeared before them complete, now they decided to think it over, to sum it up. And it was clear that now many of his ideas would be recognized, many of his works would be published and republished. For some reason, the dead have more rights, they are allowed more ...
The life stories of famous people always motivate. They point the way to success. You think: “If this guy managed to pull off such a thing, why am I worse?” And then the colossal work on self-improvement begins - priorities change, habits change. But the main difficulty lies in finding the “right” book that can turn the mind around. The story "This Strange Life", written by Daniil Granin, is an ideal candidate for the role of a moral mentor and ideological inspirer. The book tells about the life and scientific work of Alexander Lyubishchev, a brilliant scientist who knew how to subjugate time, and not obey it.!
The writer of the Soviet period preferred to write about the life and work of famous academicians, physicists, mathematicians, biologists, focusing not only on the known facts from their biographies, but also on the inner world of geniuses.
It was no coincidence that Daniil Granin chose Alexander Lyubishchev as the hero of the book “This Strange Life”. The author is impressed by the charter of life, which guided the hero of his story. The author faced a difficult task - by appealing to boring facts to create an exciting story that would fully reflect Lyubishchev's attitude to the system of that time. Thus, the reader is offered a story not only about the contribution of the scientist to the development of science, but also about his personal achievements associated with fortitude, rebelliousness and courage. The dominant features of the protagonist were chosen - purposefulness and strength. The strangeness of the academician, which was noticed by everyone who knew him, also did not go unnoticed by the writer. However, the main achievement of Alexander Lyubishchev is the creation of an effective time distribution system, which he used throughout his life. The method of increasing personal effectiveness according to Lyubishchev is very similar to modern time management practices, and therefore the scientist is credited with the authorship of this system. You can listen to the audiobook in mp3 or read online "This Strange Life" by Daniil Granin on KnigoPoisk.
In the book "This Strange Life" Daniil Granin describes the life of a man devoted to his own work. His hero does not recognize authorities and can accurately calculate his time a day, a month, and even a year ahead. It was the system of temporary accounting that allowed Lyubishchev to become what history remembered him to be. This is something he should learn from.
The modern variety of books on self-development and motivation offers a colossal number of textbooks for increasing personal effectiveness by keeping time records, and few people take this book seriously, and very much in vain. The light narrative style of the author, interesting facts and everyday background will tell you in the best way how to master time management and apply its canons in practice.
A strong motivational boost is what you get after reading It's a Strange Life. It is never too late to start, the main thing is not to stop - the main conclusion that you will draw for yourself, but by no means the only one. Read to anyone who is looking for a powerful dose of motivation and inspiration!
