List: Reading list | Curated by Brent Green

Dec 6, 2024

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Reading list
Brent Green
What Vincent van Gogh Can Teach Us about FailureThe beleaguered artist suffered more failure by age 37 than most people experience in a long life.
Aug 17, 2021
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Aug 17, 2021
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Afraid to JumpI’m grieving Laurel, her noble fight with terminal cancer while loving Ronald McDonald and E.T.
Oct 30, 2024
Oct 30, 2024
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Four Steps to Having a Genuinely Good DayOn my 25th birthday, I awoke alone and feeling miserable. I had realized that I was in the wrong intimate relationship, the wrong job, and…
Oct 8, 2023
Oct 8, 2023
Brent Green
Woodstock in 1969: A Public Dream Of National Unity Needed NowFrom Alaska to Colorado to New York, young people crossed the country for peace and love in a time of rage and resentment.
Nov 18, 2022
Nov 18, 2022
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Why Unrestricted and Unlimited Political Advertising Isn’t Free SpeechA controversial Supreme Court 5–4 majority decision reversed traditional campaign finance restrictions, crippling the fight against…
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
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Why those who oppose the word “generation”​ and reject “generational framing”​ do not understand or…Prominent academics and sociologists have written a letter to Pew Research Center, demanding that the company stop researching…
Dec 10, 2021
Dec 10, 2021
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Transcending LossLosses experienced by the 101 billion humans who have preceded us to the grave can become our source of optimism and grace.
Jul 31, 2021
Jul 31, 2021
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What are we fighting for?From the Civil War to Vietnam and Afghanistan, Americans keep asking the same question of their leaders. The answers are insufficient.
Sep 3, 2021
Sep 3, 2021
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WARRIOR: The Lessons of a Man Who Conquered Cancer for 57 YearsAhead of me loped a towering athlete with one remaining lung. Cancer had destroyed his other lung two years earlier, although he never…
Dec 26, 2014
Dec 26, 2014
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How Small Are We?Yes, we’re small specs of life in a gigantic universe, but we’re much, much larger than our physical dimensions.
Jul 31, 2021
Jul 31, 2021
Brent Green
You Say You Want an Aging Revolution?A Relentless Sense of Generational Identification Makes the Boomer Cohort A Uniquely Powerful and Addressable Marketing Target
Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016

Reading list

What Vincent van Gogh Can Teach Us about Failure

The beleaguered artist suffered more failure by age 37 than most people experience in a long life.

Afraid to Jump

I’m grieving Laurel, her noble fight with terminal cancer while loving Ronald McDonald and E.T.

Four Steps to Having a Genuinely Good Day

On my 25th birthday, I awoke alone and feeling miserable. I had realized that I was in the wrong intimate relationship, the wrong job, and…

Woodstock in 1969: A Public Dream Of National Unity Needed Now

From Alaska to Colorado to New York, young people crossed the country for peace and love in a time of rage and resentment.

Why Unrestricted and Unlimited Political Advertising Isn’t Free Speech

A controversial Supreme Court 5–4 majority decision reversed traditional campaign finance restrictions, crippling the fight against…

Why those who oppose the word “generation”​ and reject “generational framing”​ do not understand or…

Prominent academics and sociologists have written a letter to Pew Research Center, demanding that the company stop researching…

Transcending Loss

Losses experienced by the 101 billion humans who have preceded us to the grave can become our source of optimism and grace.

What are we fighting for?

From the Civil War to Vietnam and Afghanistan, Americans keep asking the same question of their leaders. The answers are insufficient.

WARRIOR: The Lessons of a Man Who Conquered Cancer for 57 Years

Ahead of me loped a towering athlete with one remaining lung. Cancer had destroyed his other lung two years earlier, although he never…

How Small Are We?

Yes, we’re small specs of life in a gigantic universe, but we’re much, much larger than our physical dimensions.

You Say You Want an Aging Revolution?

A Relentless Sense of Generational Identification Makes the Boomer Cohort A Uniquely Powerful and Addressable Marketing Target

Brent Green

Why those who oppose the word “generation” and reject “generational framing” do not understand or…