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Summary: Perfect for EST & Forum graduates
Review: Tracy Goss has long been closely associated with Werner Erhard, the originator of EST and Landmark Education Corporation's Forum. I expect happy graduates of those programs to be very happy with this book (I am and I am). The book presents the central concepts of those programs very clearly and in a format designed to help business people put the "distinctions" to work immediately. I doubt, however, that a person not trained by the author or another of Mr. Erhard's colleagues could get much sense from these pages. It can seem to be merely jargon and wild promises unless you have actually put the techniques to work for yourself with the assistance of a coach. For people experienced with the methods, this book is an effective refresher and spur to action. A friend and I read the book at about the same time and immediately formed a mutual support program employing its ideas, along with structures from the courses I teach. We are getting exciting results. I recommend the book to anyone eager to transform their lives from survival to adventure.
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Summary: An Incredible Personal Transformation Reference Book
Review: Are you committed to, or even interested in, accommplishing something that looks impossible to achieve? Are you willing to transform yourself to make the impossible possible? If you are, this book by Tracy Goss will provide you a roadmap to reinvent yourself. The work is not easy; it's like developing mastery in any field, this one being the reinvention of yourself. The stages or practices related to your personal transformation are written in an easily-understood way, yet when used as a continuing reference, develop deeper and more valuable meaning as you go back to them time and again in your quest for mastery.
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Summary: An Incredible Personal Transformation Reference Book
Review: Are you committed to, or even interested in, accommplishing something that looks impossible to achieve? Are you willing to transform yourself to make the impossible possible? If you are, this book by Tracy Goss will provide you a roadmap to reinvent yourself. The work is not easy; it's like developing mastery in any field, this one being the reinvention of yourself. The stages or practices related to your personal transformation are written in an easily-understood way, yet when used as a continuing reference, develop deeper and more valuable meaning as you go back to them time and again in your quest for mastery.
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Summary: Powerful, Instructive, Insightful...
Review: I did not read this book because I was a CEO, an executive or director within a large corporation. I read this book because I was an individual, a professional who needed very much to move his career to a whole new level of productivity, if it was to offer any real future to either me or my family... in terms of both personal and financial fulfillment. This book was a powerful journey of self discovery. It really shakes up your notions about what you think works and what doesn't. It enabled me to clearly see for the first time that the very approach that I had used to produce some outstanding and exceptional results and achievements within my career was incapable by its very design to allow the extraordinary or the impossible to happen. That insight alone was golden because in a very primary way it provided the room for me to begin a new... to design anew... to reinvent the way in which I was relating and approaching my work. It essentially began to reinvent me. The book provided me with a structure of fulfillment - with very tangible tools - a way in which to access a new source of power and effectiveness. I cannot recommend it enough for those who find themselves, as I did, in the midst of a struggle with what they wish to achieve for themselves and within their careers.
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Summary: Powerful, Instructive, Insightful...
Review: I did not read this book because I was a CEO, an executive or director within a large corporation. I read this book because I was an individual, a professional who needed very much to move his career to a whole new level of productivity, if it was to offer any real future to either me or my family... in terms of both personal and financial fulfillment. This book was a powerful journey of self discovery. It really shakes up your notions about what you think works and what doesn't. It enabled me to clearly see for the first time that the very approach that I had used to produce some outstanding and exceptional results and achievements within my career was incapable by its very design to allow the extraordinary or the impossible to happen. That insight alone was golden because in a very primary way it provided the room for me to begin a new... to design anew... to reinvent the way in which I was relating and approaching my work. It essentially began to reinvent me. The book provided me with a structure of fulfillment - with very tangible tools - a way in which to access a new source of power and effectiveness. I cannot recommend it enough for those who find themselves, as I did, in the midst of a struggle with what they wish to achieve for themselves and within their careers.
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Summary: Not just for those who want to do the impossible
Review: I found this a fairly easy book to read and yet it had a significant impact on how I see myself and my approach to my work. And each time I read the book I get more out of it, there's another layer of the onion to peel back. This is not just for those who want to do the impossible, it's for anyone who wants to see the mechanisms that control their life - and with seeing comes power!
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Summary: Not just for those who want to do the impossible
Review: I found this a fairly easy book to read and yet it had a significant impact on how I see myself and my approach to my work. And each time I read the book I get more out of it, there's another layer of the onion to peel back. This is not just for those who want to do the impossible, it's for anyone who wants to see the mechanisms that control their life - and with seeing comes power!
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Summary: POWERFUL, CHALLENGING, EXCITING
Review: I have never done an LGAT like est or Landmark Forum, though I have read some of their concepts and found them interesting. There was too much other, negative material to entice me into those programs. This book, however, puts forth what I understand to be the core teachings of those organizations, and I have found them powerful, challenging, exciting beyond belief. I disagree with the reviewer who thinks that you have to have had est training or the like to understand this book. It is written clearly, Ms. Goss defines all her jargon concisely, and she gets right to the heart of the matter of transformation (as opposed to change - a great distinction.) It is the best "self-help" book I have ever read and I highly recommend it far beyond the boundaries of business re-invention. As an artist, I found her concepts liberating, and as a person I truly do feel that I am in the process of transforming myself. And on top of all that, it coasts less than a tenth of the Landmark Forum Weekend seminar! My only complaint is that the book doesn't list discussion groups based around the information contained inside. Perhaps I'll have to go to an est or Forum site to have conversations about it...but I can't say enough about it.
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Summary: Gave Me The Edge and Momentum I Was Looking For
Review: I love this book... I found it frighteningly self-descriptive in how I had been attempting new techniques and approaches within my retail business... while in actuality reinforcing and strengthening my old groundwork of safety nets, caution, and predictability. What I thought to be incisive and innovative - even gutsy on my part - was really the same old stuff in different clothing. I found this book confronting, as it probably needs to be for a strong-willed person like myself -- because the very same powerful convictions that I needed to implement and execute change... were the very same deeply seeded convictions that had me totally convinced that what I was doing was exactly what I needed to do. I like Goss' approach and her premise - that you can't even begin to think of re-inventing your business, of playing it big - of being extraordinary in what you do - unless you are willing to put everything at stake - mostly yourself and the enormous investment that you have in being right. I really like the encompassing depth of that notion. Great book for the ambitious, brave, and the committed.
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Summary: provocative,alternative method to achieving desired results.
Review: I purchased this book based on a recommendation of a website. I was looking to satisfy my curiousity as to why so many change/transformation efforts fail. Ms. Goss does an excellent job explaining why however her remedy is not for the faint of heart. To transform and embody her ideas is a personal decision. There are several concepts that you can adopt to begin transformation, adapting all of the concepts in their entirety is at first quite a daunting thought. While I am a novice to her work, I can see how her worldview is has credibility.
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