How to Live a Life?

Advice from İlber Ortaylı to live more meaningfully… “Be brave. Open windows outside your comfortable area. This is the only way you can meet different worlds. If I always stood still - if I didn't look for people who would change my world - I wouldn't be the me you know today. The moment a person ends is the moment he becomes a slave to laziness. One must be willing to give up one's comfort. He must move his own world.” İlber Ortaylıİlber Ortaylı is before us with a work that everyone from seven to seventy will benefit from, consisting of advice filtered from his wise personality and life experience. In this book, İlber Hodja explains, by giving examples, how a person can find the solutions he needs in almost every aspect of life, starting from childhood. Reminding the saying "Everyone is the architect of their own fortune", he interprets what it means to chart his own path with all its critical points. What is needed first in order to live a life properly and enjoy every moment? How many periods does human life consist of and what needs to be experienced in each period? Why are the ages of 15, 25, 40 and 55 each a threshold? From whom and what can one learn? How is it possible to educate oneself? How should a person choose his profession? What is needed to become an expert in a job and work with that expert knowledge? A language – how and when is it best learned? How should one work to get the most efficient results? What kind of education model should a responsible person look for for himself or his children? What kind of people should be sought and found to add value to life? Who should be listened to the most in order to make the right decisions? How to best travel and get around a city? Which museum - which square - which streets can you travel to the end of the world to see? What is a good movie - good music - the right book? Which basic works should we listen to, read and watch? How can a person fully benefit from the city he lives in? “How to Live a Life?” - from the eyes of a historian who is the source of pride for our country - about man's search for meaning in life - how to enjoy this search and how to cope with the difficulties he will encounter throughout the process. A very special guide…