These individuals have riches just as we say that we “have a fever” when really the fever has us. – Seneca
Do I have the idea, or does the idea have me?
I don't think of it as an "it has me or I have it" situation - it's become almost a symbiotic relationship. I help bring the idea to life, it helps me maintain focus and improve knowledge in other aspects of my life. If I abandon it other things seem to suffer, too.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
It helped me understand the relationship between fear, oppression, hatred and crime.
It also gave me renewed disdain for the evangelical (as in, spreading of gospel) european and american tradition, a disdain which is probably shared by the author.
Before reading the book, I had never really "understood" Martin Luther King Jr. How could it be morally right to want to integrate, forgive and even love one's oppressors? I feel like I have a better understanding of the civil rights movement in the US, and perhaps a slightly more optimistic view of the future.
[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Disinherited-Howard-Thurman/dp/0... [1]: https://chrisblattman.com/2015/09/29/fear-and-what-a-centuri...
I'm not baiting you I'm generally interested.
The Power of Now; Practicing the Power of Now; Stillness Speaks; A New Earth
After reading these books I am now able to successfully create new habits. Last year I tried to get into a habit of reading good books and was able to read around 40 good books ( twice of what I had planned)
Labeling a book a Life Changer is a bit melodramatic. Still Jay Abraham's "Sticking Point Solution" is worthy and profoundly thought provoking read, impacting that intersection of buiness/personal life. > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515635-the-sticking-poin...
It really reminded me of the Admiral McRaven speech about making your bed, which is occasionally quoted here:
> “If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another,” he said.
The last few months of 2014 and the first couple of months in 2015 - when Canadian winter SAD and the stress of starting a new business kicked in - really did me in mentally and I was going through a severe bout with depression.
This book was recommended to me by a friend and founder. It gave me the tools I needed to deal with the ongoing BS life tends to throw at you. Amazing how powerful and still highly applicable a mindset developed centuries ago can be today.
