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By: The Art of Meditation | Books that can change your life

The Art of Meditation | Books that can change your life — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:56:51 +0000

[...] Apart from enjoying a minimum amount of freedom and opportunity, human existence offers extraordinary opportunities for internal development, and it offers us a unique chance to realize the potential we all possess. This potential, obscured by our ignorance and emotional disturbance, spends most of its time living deep inside us like hidden treasure. Note: this is like the story of the field of diamonds in Lead the Field. [...]

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:09:54 +0000

I have this as an audiobook, and it’s definitely worth listening to (or reading!) more than once. It’s amazing to see how well his messages have kept up over the years–timeless themes.

Acres of Diamonds is one of my favorites–the story really sticks in my head–and I intend to do a blog post that references it at some point.

By: Olivier Roland

Olivier Roland — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:04:59 +0000

Hello Maria,

Yes, I have suggestions !

First, like you said for some old books it is very obvious that some ideas they claim are outdated. In these cases, a little search on Google and you are fixed on that. And what is good about the old classics is there is a natural evolutionary sorting : only the best survive. So it is unlikely that old books that are still considered valuable today are really just crap. Sure, you can notice mistakes and errors here and there, but if the books are considered valuables, it is because their overall value is positive, and generally greatly positive.

More, often the really valuables olds books were foundation for a new generation of books and there is good chance that a lot of books of the same area that are published today are influenced directly or indirectly by this classic, so it’s always worth to just see what is the content in order to understand where it has started all.

The problem with the today’s books is that we have no hindsight. Sure, generally the books considered really great by a lot of people are valuable, but no one can see if their content is timeless or if it is just fashion content that will be soon forgot.

So my advice is too look after really excellent classics that are recommended by numerous sources. I particularly recommend The Magic of Thinking Big (1959), The Effective Executive (1967) and Lead the Field (1986).

These 3 books are invaluable and full of timeless content. Just test one and I bet that you will not be disappointed

By: Maria | Never the Same River Twice

Maria | Never the Same River Twice — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:03:11 +0000

I have to admit that I have a really hard time reading some of the “classic” self improvement stuff. The language is very old fashioned and many of the ideas presented have been proven wrong over time – like the 10% of our brain thing.

Do you have any suggestions for getting past this and extracting the good stuff from these books?

By: The Creative Habit - Learn it and use it for life | Books that can change your life

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:13:40 +0000

[...] push ourselves and do the impossible, and thus to do our best. Because, as Earl Nightingale says in Lead the Field, desire is more powerful than the satisfaction of accomplishment. Having unlimited resources and [...]