If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

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1 hrs 58 mins

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1 hrs 58 mins

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The estimated word count of If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging is 29,450 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 1 hrs 58 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 17 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 6 mins.

If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging - 29,450 words
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Slow 150 words/min 3 hrs 17 mins
Average 250 words/min 1 hrs 58 mins
Fast 450 words/min 1 hrs 6 mins
If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging by Jann Arden
Authors
Jann Arden

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Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am--that so many women are--is just the best time of my life." Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self--and all of us--that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose--not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."