Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite
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Nirvana in little book form - My dad bought this book for me to read a while back and it really made me think about my own life and how I could improve it. Some people might see it as nothing more than a marketing ploy (eg. those who gave it 1 and 2 stars), but if you really read and understand what Arden is conveying, the book may guide you in making the wrong decisions. There are some perceptions in the book that some would disagree with, but it really is up to you as the reader to take them on board or not.
A stimulating and thought provoking little book - An inspirational little book, encouraging the reader to think and behave differently. The authour, Paul Arden, stresses that there is only one person who can determine the shape of your life. You! Just dreaming and talking about it won t achieve it for you. This book certainly makes you think about how you can achieve what you want. Reading it through cover to cover, or just dipping into it, makes your realise that we do indeed tend to make safe decisions, based on experience and knowledge gained over the years. Paul Arden points out that the problem in making sensible decisions is that so does everyone else. It is the unsafe decision that makes you think and respond in a way you ve never thought of, and that thought will lead to others that will help you achieve what you want. Knowledge makes us play safe. To overcome that, we need to stay childish and worry less about the result. Many wonderful snippets and examples throughout the book provoke us to think. To behave unreasonably is just one. Another is that we shouldn t try to perfect something before doing it - just run with what you ve got, and fix it as you go. Even having too many ideas may not be a good thing - if you don t have many, then we have to make those we do have work for us. The best ideas are those that happen. If an idea is not taken up, it s a non-idea, worthless. The book concludes: The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently and your life will change.Thought provoking. Keep it handy, and dip into it every now and then.
Slightly Smug and Ill thought out - Masquerading as some kind of little oracle on thinking outside of the box, some of the statements in this book are facile and philosophically unsound, even though the author is trying to promote thinking outside the box rather ironically. He actually entraps himself and SOME of his viewers inside the box with his comments about,in particular, a certain person called Adolf Hitler.The authors sometimes smug remarks can grate and create disillusionment. Read it in the shop and form your own opinion, but this book is a bit rubbish to be fair.
Nice pics, shame about the text - Ironically for a book that seeks to encourage new and radical ways of thinking it is full of the same old clichés, platitudes and generalisations. It s got some good pictures, but it s finest quality is it s brevity, you don t waste too much time reading it.
As smug and wrong as its title implies - A collection of misleading anecdotes & fatuous generalisations. If you re really interested, you could spend twenty minutes reading the whole thing in a shop. I doubt you d consider it worth the time.