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As I signed my name, I noticed an observer, wearing a green trench coat still wet from the rain, standing off to the side. He watched every move I made. As a citizen of the earth, you have been called to harness your primal power to do amazing things, to make astonishing progress and to uplift the lives of your brothers and sisters with whom you caretake the planet. It’s wiser to take a chance and risk looking foolish (yet know that you did it) than miss the opportunity and end up empty and heartbroken, on your last day. Contrary to what many people think about self-help books, also known as self-improvement, they are not guides on how to live your life. You are not supposed to clone the author's life, but rather learn how they process their experiences to gain wisdom that can help you live better and adopt strategies that can be applied to your situation. You need to read many books of this kind to compile a good set of physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional tools to create your own life philosophy.
The journey to your most heroic life will be colorful, inspirational, messy, marvelous, tumultuous and most definitely glorious. Dedicating yourself to inhabiting your greatness, generating a vast barrage of beautiful results and doing your part to build a brighter world will be the wisest and best ride you’ll ever take. This, I promise you. And stepping into the immense splendor of your most creative, powerful and compassionate self will energize everyone around you to awaken to their gifts, making our planet a friendlier place. One is that the capacity for great work lies in all of us, and it’s our job and even our duty to find it, polish it, and let it shine. Second is that your act of heroism requires self-belief and commitment to excellence that can’t be denied. And finally, it may take time for things to work out, but if you handle your journey the right way, you will reach your destination. Your ecosystem shapes your energy and your surroundings influence your performance dramatically. Everything outside you profoundly affects the way you think, feel, create and execute. The fortification of positivity, inspiration and high hopes at a time of general negativity is mission-central to the campaign of producing sublime work and leading a life that surges with happiness, serenity and spiritual freedom. To be an original, you need to take radical risks. This belief is embedded so deeply in our cultural psyche that we rarely even stop to think about it.
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If you have not discovered something you would die for, said Martin Luther King, Jr., you are not fit to live. And so, I decided to remake myself. To get to know a truer, happier, more peaceful and better version of the person I was. By starting a campaign of massive personal growth, profound emotional healing and deep spiritual progress. Genuine power can be revealed when a human simply remember how to be fully human because nature does not allow a vacuum. Life's meant to be lived right now. The future's just a sprinkling fantasy. You are a mighty force of nature and a dynamic producer, not a slumbering casualty caught flat-footed in a world of degrading mediocrity, dehumanizing complaint, compliance and entitlement. After a few minutes, the man approached me and said, speaking very precisely: " The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. That’s a great title. Tell me about yourself."
Overall it was an enjoyable read and does contain some useful information, but I did find that it overlaps with other themes and ideas, and also overlaps with stoic principles. It led me to question whether these types of books are useful if they mostly recycle old ideas, as a gateway unto understanding those ideas. I think the answer is yes, as long as there are references to those ideas, and in this case those references are not clear In all, there are 101 of these short chapters. Some of them even contain some great tales and maxims. The problem with them, in my mind, is that they prevent the book from going deep enough. It feels kind of surface-level throughout, like an entry-level self-help book — not an industry veteran’s 10th+ entry in his catalog. Looking at it plain sighted, the wise one-liners are probably the best part of it, however most of the time he’s literally telling you he’s quoting someone else (usually a Roman philosopher, a 19th century psychologist, or wiz-tech tycoon). So by instinct, you would think to simply put this jargon-loaded book down and read the original source - which you should. Regenerating a more creative, productive, inventive and unconquerable version of your self—one filled with more joy, bravery and serenity—isn’t some unreachable gift reserved for The Gods of Sublime Genius and The Angels of Unusual Excellence. The trials of your past have skillfully served to reinvent you into one who is tougher, more aware of the powers that make you special and more grateful for the basic blessings of a life beautifully lived—splendid health, a happy family, a job that fulfils and a hopeful heart. These apparent difficulties have actually been the stepping stones for your current and future victories.I would take a bullet for the concept that you are meant to make marvelous works, experience majestic events and know of the secret universe of mastery that was populated by the advanced souls who walked before us. We read about heroes who storm burning buildings to rescue others or those who land planes in frightening conditions. Heroes like Mahatma Gandhi or Rosa Parks stand up to oppressors while others surmount the odds to rise to dizzying heights in sports, music, and the arts.
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