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Title: It's a Strange Life
Author: Daniil Granin
Year: 1974
Genre: Biographies and 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 the Second World War found him. Daniil Alexandrovich volunteered to go to 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 a research institute in graduate school, 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 always tried to show the struggle between principled people of science and bureaucrats.

The work “This Strange Life” is the life story of the talented Russian biologist and mathematician Alexander Lyubishchev. Daniil Aleksandrovich managed to very subtly convey the scientist’s inner experiences, his disagreement with the regulations and his struggle with the system. The author showed Lyubishchev as a purposeful and strong person, but a little strange, like all geniuses.

Alexander Lyubishchev was an incredibly pedantic person. He sought to rationalize time and valued every minute. The book “This Strange Life” clearly describes the creation of the scientist’s unique time system, according to which he lived until his last days. The essence of this development is very close to the canons of time management, which is why Lyubishchev is credited with being the author of the modern system.

The work “This Strange Life” fully lives up to its title. 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 his scientific activities and make new discoveries. The scientist was able to plan his time for years in advance with an accuracy of 1% and stubbornly follow a clearly drawn up script. Neither changes in the country nor personal tragedies could lead him astray from his intended path.

In the book “This Strange Life,” Daniil Granin claims that Lyubishchev, following the time accounting system, read a colossal number of books and wrote many reviews and articles. Until his last days, the scientist kept a diary, more like a mathematical journal, where he noted 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 purpose, 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 getting less and less! And we “no longer have enough time to read, to write long letters that people once wrote to each other; we don’t have enough time to love, communicate, visit, admire sunsets and sunrises, walk mindlessly through the fields... Where does Time disappear? Where does this growing time pressure come from?! We save it, but there is less and less of it! 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 fulfill 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 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 Nevmyvaka was asked how he could study the structure of a 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 hesitate.

Who am I? I am an amateur, a universal amateur. This word comes from the Italian diletto, which means pleasure. That is, a person who enjoys the process of any work.

I have long noticed that people who know how to work have enough time. No, perhaps it’s better to put it another way: they have more time than others.

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Life stories of famous people always motivate. They show the way to success. You think, “If this guy could pull this off, why am I any worse?” And then the colossal work of self-improvement begins - priorities change, habits change. But the main difficulty lies in finding the “right” book that can change your mind. 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 well-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 life rules that guided the hero of his story. The author was faced with a difficult task - using boring facts to create an exciting story that would fully reflect Lyubishchev’s relationship to the system of that time. Thus, the reader is offered a story not only about the scientist’s contribution to the development of science, but also about his personal achievements associated with perseverance of character, rebellion and courage. The dominant traits chosen for the main character were determination and strength. The academician's strangeness, which was noticed by everyone who knew him, also did not go unnoticed by the writer. However, the main achievement of Alexander Lyubishchev was the creation of an effective time management system, which he used throughout his life. Lyubishchev’s method of increasing personal effectiveness 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 for the day, month and even a year in advance. It was the temporary accounting system that allowed Lyubishchev to become what history remembers him to be. This is something worth learning from him.

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 in vain. The author's easy narrative style, interesting facts and everyday background will best tell you how to master time management and apply its canons in practice.

A strong motivational boost is what you will get after reading the book It's a Strange Life. It's 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. A must read for anyone looking for a powerful dose of motivation and inspiration!

It's a strange life

I wanted to talk about this person in a way that would stick to the facts and would be interesting. It is quite difficult to combine both of these requirements. Facts are interesting when you don't have to stick to them. One could try to find some fresh technique and, using it, build an entertaining plot from the facts. So that there is mystery and struggle and danger. And so that with all this, authenticity is maintained.

It was customary to portray, for example, this man as a united 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 was the first to attack and crush. 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 invent it, but then it would have been inconvenient to leave his real name. Then it was necessary to abandon many other surnames. But then no one would have believed me. In addition, I wanted to pay tribute to this man, to show what a person is capable of.

Of course, authenticity got in the way and tied my hands. It's much easier to deal with a fictional hero. He is both flexible and frank - the author knows all his thoughts and intentions, both his past and his future.

I had another task: to introduce all the useful information to the reader, to give descriptions - of course, amazing, surprising, but, unfortunately, unsuitable for a literary work. They were more likely suitable for a popular science essay. Imagine inserting a description of fencing in the middle of The Three Musketeers. The reader will probably skip these pages. And I had to force the reader to read my information, since this is the most important thing...

I wanted a lot of people to read about it, and that’s basically why this thing was started.

It was also quite possible to get hooked on the secret. The promise of a secret, a mystery - it always attracts, especially since this mystery is not invented: I really struggled for a long time with the diaries and archive of my hero, and everything that I learned from there was a discovery for me, a clue to the secret of an amazing life.

However, to be honest, this secret is not accompanied by adventures, pursuit, and is not associated with intrigue and danger.

The secret is about how to live better. And here, too, you 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 ensures the highest achievements with the most ordinary abilities!”

“You do not get an abstract system, but a guaranteed one, proven by many years of experience, accessible, productive...”

“Minimum costs - maximum effect!”

"The best in the world!.."

One could promise to tell the reader about an outstanding person of the 20th century unknown to him. To give a portrait of a moral hero, with such high moral rules that now seem old-fashioned. The life he lived is outwardly the most ordinary, in some ways even unlucky; from the point of view of the average person, he is a typical loser, but in his inner sense he was a harmonious and happy person, and his happiness was of the highest standard. Frankly, I thought that people of this scale had evolved, they were dinosaurs...

Just as in the old days they discovered the earth, just as astronomers discovered 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.

This was also a discovery, not of a universal type, but as if personal, mine, and not of a type, but rather of an ideal; however, this word did not fit either. Lyubishchev was also not suitable for the ideal...

I sat in a large, uncomfortable audience. The bare bulb harshly illuminated the gray hair and bald heads, the smooth comb-overs of graduate students, the long shaggy hair and fashionable wigs and curly blackness of blacks. Professors, doctors, students, journalists, historians, biologists... Most of all there were mathematicians, because it took place at their faculty - the first meeting in memory of Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev.

I didn't expect so many people to come. And especially for young people. Perhaps they were driven by curiosity. Because they knew little about Lyubishchev. Either a biologist or a mathematician. Amateur? Amateur? Seems like an amateur. But the postal official from Toulouse - the great Fermat - was also an amateur... Lyubishchev - who is he? Either a vitalist, or a positivist or an idealist, in any case, a heretic.

And the speakers did not clarify either. Some considered him a biologist, others - a historian of science, others - an entomologist, others - a philosopher...

Each speaker 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. Others imagined the kindest figure of a Russian intellectual, inexhaustibly tolerant of his opponents.

In any philosophy, living critical and creative thought was valuable to him!

His strength was in the continuous generation of ideas, he posed questions, he awakened thought!

As one of the great mathematicians noted, brilliant geometers propose a theorem, talented ones prove it. So he was the proposer.

He was scattered too much; he should have concentrated on systematics and not wasted 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 worldview...

The breadth of his philosophical education allowed him to rethink the problem of the origin of species.

He was a rationalist!

Vitalist!

A dreamer, an enthusiastic person, an intuitionist!

They had known Lyubishchev and his works for many years, but each talked about the Lyubishchev they 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.

I had spent the week before reading his diaries and letters, delving into the history of the preoccupations of his mind. I started reading without a purpose. Just other people's letters. Just well-written testimonies of someone else’s soul, past worries, past anger, memorable for me too, because I once thought about the same thing, but I didn’t think of it...

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 admitted to myself that I considered him an eccentric, a wise, sweet eccentric, and it was bitter that I missed many opportunities to be with him. I had planned to go to see him in Ulyanovsk so many times, and everything seemed to work out in time.

Once again life taught me not to put anything off. Life, if you think about it, is a patient caretaker, it again and again brought me together with the most interesting people of our century, but I was in a hurry and often hurried past, putting it off for later. Why did I put it off, why was I in a hurry? Now these past hurries seem so insignificant, and the losses so offensive and, most importantly, irreparable.

The student who was sitting next to me shrugged his shoulders in bewilderment, unable to combine the contradictory stories of the speakers into one.

Only a year passed after Lyubishchev's death - and it was no longer possible to understand what he really was like.

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. While telling stories, they also built their own stories. Over the years, their portraits will turn out to be something average, or rather, an acceptable average, devoid of contradictions, mysteries - smoothed out and barely recognizable.

This average will be explained, it will be determined where he was wrong and where he was ahead of his time, and will be made completely understandable. And lifeless. If he gives in, of course. Above the pulpit hung a large photograph in a black frame - an old bald man, wrinkling his drooping nose, scratching the back of his head. He looked puzzledly, either at the audience or at the speakers, as if deciding what else he could do. And it was clear that all these clever speeches and theories now had nothing to do with that old man who could no longer be seen and who was so needed now. I'm too used to him being there. It was enough for me to know that somewhere there was a person with whom I could talk about everything and ask about everything.

When a person dies, many things become clear, many things become known. And our attitude towards the deceased is summed up. I felt this in the speakers' speeches. There was certainty about them. Lyubishchev’s life appeared complete before them, now they decided to think it over and summarize it. And it was clear that now many of his ideas would receive recognition, many of his works would be published and republished. For some reason, the dead have more rights, they are allowed more...

The book “It’s a Strange Life,” first published in 1974 (with a circulation of 100,000 copies!), has been reprinted dozens of times over almost forty years, it has been translated into several languages, including English and German, and is rightfully considered the ancestor and the inspiration of modern time management.

This book inspired Gleb Arkhangelsky to create the only company in Russia specializing exclusively in time management.

Alexander Aleksandrovich Lyubishchev (1890–1972) - entomologist, specialist in one of the most complex subfamilies of leaf beetles, the so-called flea beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae), and plant protection. He is known for his more general works on the application of mathematical methods in biology, on general problems of biological systematics, the theory of evolution and philosophy.

He created a time tracking system that he used for 56 years (from 1916 to 1972). In fact, he is the founder and developer of the principles of goal setting and time tracking, today called time management.

He spoke several languages: English, German, Italian, French, and learned the first two in transport.

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin is a classic of Russian literature, whose writing career began back in 1949.

After graduating from the electrical engineering department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, he worked as an engineer at the Kirov plant. During the war he went to the front, where he fought in tank forces. After the war he worked at a research institute and Lenenergo.

When the writer was 30 years old, Zvezda magazine published his story “Option Two.” The public and critics liked this work. The second work, “Dispute Across the Ocean,” was, on the contrary, criticized. For some time Granin combined science and literature. However, later science had to be abandoned in the name of literature. The main direction of creativity is the poetry of scientific and technological progress. Granin wrote stories, novellas, essays, and scripts about what was always close to him: about engineers, scientists, scientists.

Author of more than 30 books, over a dozen of them have been filmed. Winner of foreign and domestic literary awards, twice winner of the State Prize, winner of the Big Book Prize in 2012. Founder of the country's first Relief Society. The most famous works: “This Strange Life”, “My Lieutenant”, “The Siege Book”, “I’m Going into a Storm”. Daniil Alexandrovich lives and works in St. Petersburg.

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A book called “This Strange Life” is a story written by the author based on the true events and discoveries of a real person who once lived among us, but was distinguished by a kind of genius that consisted in an amazing “friendship” with time. Daniil Granin described the life and scientific achievements of the world-famous biologist, mathematician, philosopher and entomologist Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev. The book contains answers to the eternal questions of humanity: what is Time? How to use it correctly? How to do a lot of things and still manage to do everything? The uniqueness and originality of the work, however, lies not only in providing the opportunity to read about one great Russian scientist who achieved a breakthrough in the world of biology.

The work is also unique in that it shows the full power of Time, the possibility of its expansion within any boundaries, the ability to correctly use every second of one’s life. After reading the book, many people think: after all, if they had known all this earlier, at least a few years ago, how differently life would have turned out...

Daniil Granin is a very famous writer. And, probably, he had no doubt at all about the success of the story “This Strange Life”, since he published it immediately after finishing writing it in a huge circulation - 100 thousand copies! And I was right. His story was translated, according to some sources, into 8 major languages; the worldview and experience of many Soviet people was built on it (“This Strange Life” was published in 1974). For her, Daniil Granin received very honorable literary titles: laureate of the State Prize and laureate of the Big Book Prize in 2012. And although the story is in fact not large at all, it is worth reflecting that it was not for nothing that it was called at one time the greatest among the works of that time. The work of the Soviet author marked the beginning of a new, hitherto unknown science of time management.

The story can be read by both people versed in the natural and philosophical sciences, and everyone else, without restrictions or preparation. After all, the essence is not only in special terms and perfect discoveries - this is the friendship of time and man, this is the ability to wait and wait, to work without interruption - and at the same time to live, help friends, breathe deeply. An interesting point, described between the lines by the author on behalf of his hero: “After all, what can you earn? Money. Strength. What about love and health? You can’t buy it or find it, but you can achieve it and save it. And time... lost time cannot be returned, redeemed, sold or earned. It goes away – irrevocably, forever.” The author’s literary hero also briefly touched on the sated life of those people who have so much extra time that they don’t know what to do with it. He only pitied such people - after all, the likeness of God, created for work and creation, cannot “kill” Time so mercilessly - after all, it is already limited...

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