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Summary: this is the book that drastically change my life's direction
Review: If, due to environmental protection , everyone was given the quota of one tree which is equivalent to 400 pages of paper in his whole live, It will be this book for me!!! Before reading the book I was wondering how I was going to put up with the several decades to come after my 23rd birthday, After reading this, I just can't waste a single minuites living (you wonder why I'm typing the review here?:) before, I was pessimistic, after , optimistic; before, self conscious, after, confident. OK, I'm not going to bore you with myself who's a stranger to you whom got nothing to do with you, YOu can find plenty of examples of transformation in his book. but this book really concern you it's the book from heaven.However, I think it was a book about american way of thinking. it criticised communism and Chinese way of living here and there, being a hongkongese, this is the one thing which i can't agree, apart from that everything else make sense. I love web surfing and It's on this books I began my book surfing! awaken--> unlimited power ---> bandler --->.....etc... it's teh starter of my life long search for quality it's a must for everyone.... to quote a sentence from the book(which is itself a quotation in that book) "it's not what happens to you that matters, it's what you interpret what happens. I hope my book surfing can be somehow supported by Amazon.com :) OR, Anthony will use this as the prologue for his new edition of "Awaken the Giant Within" , well, just kidding actuall I just wanna share with you people how great this book really is. It's also better than steven covey's "7 rabbits of highly defective people" (just kidding the title, I hope Covey doesn't mind.) well it's a cool book too, but I find Awaken the giant closer to me, Their difference lies in style and practicality, one is rheotic and the other is very user friendly ( you can see how user friendly this is when I, as a foreign reader only use the dictionary 3 or 4 times.) the differenc! e is like that between an OPERA and a MOVIE. I also find this book to be better than unlimited power, for this is more userfriendly and immediately applicable: question, vocabulary ...etc. Well, guess I have to stop now, or else I might end up writing a whole chapter myself.
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Summary: Easy and exciting to read, with amazing results.
Review: I bought this book on a visit to the USA from the UK in 1996. At first I thought "It's probably just another useless 'Improve Your Life' type book". But I picked it up and read a couple of paragraphs and straight away I could not believe how my mind immediately started to think more clearly!! This book is a MUST for anyone who feels like they've hit rock bottom and is searching for the reason why, especially when that reason seems to occur all too often. It is thought provoking and all the changes which Anthony Robbins says you can achieve - you really can!! In all areas of your life!! It's almost as though Robbins knows you like a parent! This book has helped me to alter the actions in my life which were having a zero affect on me, and it's always there should you need to revise an area, but believe me, because this book stimulates so much in the mind, you never forget the simple to follow plans, mind exercises and so on. It is easy to read and as gripping as any of your favourite novels. Resist the urge to jump ahead to some chapters, every page is a learning curve. If you need your thoughts explained and understood more clearly then this is definitely the book for you. Definitely a small price to pay for such valuable changes in your life - changes which YOU can achieve at your OWN pace!!
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS AWESOME, IT CHANGED MY LIFE!!!
Review: If you want to change your life for the better, buy this book. I would of paid $1000 dollars in retrospect. I have lost 40pds. I have a better relationship with my wife and family. I am doing better in business. I had it all in me before i read this book. It does just what it says "Awaken the Giant from Within".. If you read it; it WILL!!!
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Summary: I found relief from a five-year depression
Review: I found myself in a condition of severe clinical depression, and was unable to get any relief get any relief. I happened upon the information that Tony Robbins shares in this book
and after practicing what he taught for about 5 days I experienced the first relief I'd had in five years, and I've never
gone back.
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Summary: Everything is there for Your life to Get at its best.
Review: This book just put it all together for me. Every sentence is dear to me. Since I loved it all, help me to dislike it.
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Summary: Awaken the Giant Within: The Best Book I Ever Read
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Awaken the Giant Within is the best book I've ever read. It offers a true paradigm shift to anyone willing to take a chance and consider another way of looking at the world.
Tony's thesis could be summarized as follows. The quality of one's life is equivalent to the quality of one's communication with one's self and with others. If you are satisfied with the world as you experience it, and you are satisfied with the quality of your relationships, then there's no need to change. However, if you want different results, you've got to change your actions. In order to change your actions, you've got to change your beliefs.
This is the part where most people get stuck. They treat each of their beliefs like a treasured possession. Over the past three years that I've been studying Tony's philosophy, I've encountered an enormous amount of resistance to the idea of changing one's beliefs. This resistance seems to stem from two attitudes.
The first attitude could be called "what do you know." I've spoken with hundreds of people about their lives, and have learned to identify what Tony calls "disempowering beliefs." These are simply ideas that prevent people from accessing whatever personal resources could be helping them achieve their goals. "I have a bad memory." "I'm no good at sports." "I can't speak in front of crowds."
At best these statements describe the person at the present time, but I refuse to believe that people are immutable. You might know what you haven't done, but no one knows what you could do. Of course, if you think you can't, you won't ever try. So the "what do you know" attitude suggests "I've been me my whole life. I know better than you what I can and can't do." That's your choice, and you live with the consequences.
Rather than repeat Tony's whole argument here, I will simply state that once you recognize the existence of empowering and disempowering beliefs, they are amazingly easy to identify. Then it simply becomes a matter of collecting empowering beliefs and disposing of disempowering ones. Tony shows you how.
This is where the second attitude of resistance kicks in. This attitude could be called "my beliefs are me." Often people agree that some of their attitudes help and some hinder their progress. But when you suggest that someone abandon an idea they hold dear, they act as if you are amputating a limb.
The key here is autonomy. When I sense fear on someone's part to this idea, I offer it to them as a choice. "If you want to keep all your current beliefs, of course that is your option. I'm here to suggest that you consider something new, however. If you wanted, you could look through all of your beliefs about yourself like you were cleaning your house. Polish and preserve your treasured possessions, but hold a yard sale for the old junk that's cluttering your mental attic." Again, Tony shows you how to do this.
Please send me email if you'd like to discuss these or other ideas. Also check out my web site at www.leffert.com for more information on business consulting, software development, and more book reviews.
You might wonder why I've approached this topic in a sort of backwards way, defending Tony in the process. It's because I'm hoping to sway the "fence sitters." Those people who respect my opinion enough will just buy the book and read it. Those who don't like this sort of thing will pass it up. But I'd like to entice the skeptical readers to give it a shot. As Tony would say, "Only you know who will miss out if you don't give it a try."
One final note on the book. The first few chapters are not the best, so stick with it. Also, resist the urge to respond to the ideas you've heard before with "that's obvious." Much of the power of Tony's ideas comes from taking them very seriously. Everybody talks about this stuff. Almost no one takes consistent action based on these principles.
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Summary: I Ate Every Word - His Work is Annointed
Review: I have read motivational books all my life. Never have I read on that hit me this deeply. What a beautiful world we would live in if everyon moved towards thier destiny according to Tony Robbins.
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Summary: Comprehensive, but no chapter on humility. ;)
Review: This book can provide a lot of insight into the motivations of human beings. I believe it's longer than it needs to be: while the anecdotes are sometimes inspiring and enlightening, they can also be arrogant and narcissistic. While the book asserts that it can make changes instantly, I found that it had more effect in bringing to light certain facets of my person that I never saw before. It is worth reading for this alone. One detraction from this book is that although the author references many different works and experts in the field, there is no bibliography. All references at the end of the book are to parts of the Robbins consortium of companies. It seems very high-handed to me, and makes me feel that I've been reading the script to an infomercial.
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Summary: THIS BOOK TRULY CHANGED MY LIFE
Review: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE MOTIVATIONAL BOOK THIS IS THE ONE. I HAVE NEVER READ ANYTHING LIKE IT. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN
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Summary: A good book, if you can filter out the garbage.
Review: I found this book had quite a lot of really helpful, informative, useful information. But be careful-Mr. Robbins is a shameless self promoter. If you can tune out all of his talk about himself and his castle in Del Mar, CA, and take only the information that is useful to you, then you can benefit from this book. I read it and am now paging through it again to take notes on the important highlights to refresh my memory. A good book, if you're into self-help
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