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Summary: Winning the inner popularity contest
Review: There is a point, late in this book, when "a spiritually dumb culture" is exemplified by an American businessman who has "absorbed goals that make no sense just because he learned them at Harvard." This seems to assume that great minds have always been gluttons for things that make no sense. Part of getting a great education was being exposed to some variety, though that ideal tends to overstate the amount by which any American has ever shown any sign of benefiting from any kind of education, however in tune the assigned reading may have been with being "set for a coronary at fifty-five" so he can "die feeling that he never achieved his goals." (p. 283). On a personal level, I would just like to add that part of the fun of observing the operation of a great enterprise like Harvard was in suspecting that such things were genuinely dubious, and a real individual would derive more pleasure in being able to say that having a mind that has been criticized at Harvard for having perverse reasons for being there (inappropriate laughter being worse there than anywhere) is not as pleasing as receiving a rejection letter from their alumni rag (Harvard Magazine) written by an editor who clearly felt that an article examining the question, "Is MY VIETNAM WAR JOKE BOOK an ascetic ideal?" would be puzzling for most of the readers of that magazine. People who think that Harvard can't have it both ways on a question like that don't know Harvard.
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Summary: SQ is the master intelligence.
Review: This is a profound book that reviews intelligence on so many different levels. It also studies what makes us uniquely human, and that is Spiritual Intelligence. In the words of the author, animals have emotional intelligence, computers have IQ, but only humans have SQ or Spiritual Intelligence. The author's theme is well supported by creative and insightful diagram such as the Lotus of the Self. Within this book, you will learn a lot about yourself, others, and humankind. You will also be inspired to reach higher level of spiritual levels than you ever thought possible. This book also integrates different systems into one coherent whole. Different psychological scales like Myer Briggs, the Enneagram, and others, all get integrated into one meta awareness system. This is a book to treasure, read, and reread.
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