Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives

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Summary: SNORE....
Review: As a Change Consultant and guy with 30 years experience in the Fortune 50 this didnt do it for me. Too academic and too theoretical to make a difference for the people out there flailing around trying to make a difference everyday in todays organizations. There is some meat in here but you better be a starving dog to find it.

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Summary: Inspiring and readable
Review: Having found Bill Miller's insights into counseling extremely helpful in my clinical work, I was especially interested to get his "take" on change outside the clinical realm. Miller and colleagues report their investigation into the dramatic personal changes experienced by ordinary people. Their findings, always presented in a highly readable style, are illustrated by inspiring personal stories. The book closes with chapters suggesting possible psychological mechanisms of quantum change as well as the broader life lessons these changes can offer to us all. Reviewed by Deborah Van Horn, originally posted on 10/11/01.

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Summary: SNORE....
Review: I picked this book up because I feel that I'm in the midst of a major change, and hoped to learn something. What I got was... Nothing. I rarely criticize books. And I almost never don't finish them. I always try to find the best in things. I found the book full of stories and with essentially no insight. It seemed all mixed up - from people finding instant religion to the smaller paradigm shifts that almost everyone experiences throughout their lives. I felt that the authors started out with a good idea, but they couldn't really pull it off to make a book out of it. In the end, what they had was stories, mostly unremarkable stories.

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Review: Quantum Change is a good read and a good one for me to read. Both humbling and inspiring at the same time. And I appreciated its (empirical) message, spoken via Western science: TRANSFORMATION LIVES! Insightful and mystical types of change in otherwise ordinary people. Some had transformations on nothing more than "please, God, if you exist, show me now." Obviously, quantum change may be totally at the effect of Grace and not a particular practice. On the other hand, knowing it exists may facilitate it. In any case the accounts were fascinating. Transformation by insight was easier to identify with than the mystical change, when transformees may have given little or no thought to such possibilities. But they all exemplify what really matters: To a person all had less fear, if any, in the aftermath, often replaced by compassionate service.

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Review: Quantum Change is a good read and a good one for me to read. Both humbling and inspiring at the same time. And I appreciated its (empirical) message, spoken via Western science: TRANSFORMATION LIVES! Insightful and mystical types of change in otherwise ordinary people. Some had transformations on nothing more than "please, God, if you exist, show me now." Obviously, quantum change may be totally at the effect of Grace and not a particular practice. On the other hand, knowing it exists may facilitate it. In any case the accounts were fascinating. Transformation by insight was easier to identify with than the mystical change, when transformees may have given little or no thought to such possibilities. But they all exemplify what really matters: To a person all had less fear, if any, in the aftermath, often replaced by compassionate service.

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Summary: Blends psychology with spiritual insights
Review: Sudden insights can transform lives: the psychologist authors were longtime scholars and teachers of self-improvement when they noticed life-changing realizations among their clients. An ad requesting similar experiences from others resulted in a flood of stories of unexpected transformation, and Quantum Change blends psychology with spiritual insights in considering these changes.