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Beth Moore wants readers to know if God could lift her out of the pit, He can get ANYONE out! She admits she wasn't just a visitor; this former pit-dweller had to be delivered from acres of life-accumulated dirt, bone-chilling darkness, spirit-deadening anger, heart-breaking desperation and mind-numbing confusion. The permanent lessons she learned in her desperation-shared in this very personal book-are lessons of hope for all of us. While she deeply empathizes with the hows and whys of life in the "pit," she continually points readers to the deliverance that awaits. Deliverance is for everyone, she proclaims-no matter how you got stuck, no matter how long you've been down, whether you think you deserve it or not. And in her straight-talking but loving style, she reminds readers that deliverance can begin for them this very day.
Customer Reviews:
another winner for Beth Moore!.......2007-10-21
I LOVE Beth Moore, if she ever quit writing Bible studies, I dont know what I would do! I have been doing 2 a year and still am not caught up on all that she has done. The thing that I liked the best about this book is the prayers at the end. She has prayers for each day of the week. They are Scripture based prayers, like her Breaking Strongholds prayer book. The woman that wrote she had a hard time with her Texas twang, watch her videos, you become accustomed to it and her fast talking!
Thank you Beth for doing another awesome job!
Great book, terrible accent.......2007-10-10
I loved the content of this book on CD although Beth Moore's Texan twang could be a little distracting at times. Like all things Beth Moore, it was a very uplifting but stern reminder of the toll this life can take on us and how to make sure we don't get used to the pit we have fell in, slipped in or jumped in. This book has brought up a lot of discussion topics and afterthought. Well worth suffering through the accent!
First Beth Moore Book? It was mine..........2007-09-27
Before reading this book, I had never read anything by Beth Moore. Although talented and driven in her call, her style of writing is conversational and, at times, confrontational. As I was reading this book as a member of a club, I did not put it back on the shelf and suffered through becoming comfortable with a one-sided conversation. I am quite happy that I did.
If you have not read Beth Moore before, give her a chance. Let her "Talk at you", and respond with prayer - He is the one you are looking for a conversation with!
A Bit of a Disappointment.......2007-09-12
I was hoping this book would have some solid answers for me to get out of my own personal pit but all it did was describe many different types of pits without alot of specific sure fire help and ways to be free. I think it's great that so many of you found help with Beth's book, but if "I" had to do it over again, I wouldn't buy it.
What a blessing!.......2007-09-09
Whether you are currently in a pit of your own making or have been tossed in a pit via the wrongs of someone else or just difficult life circumstances, this book is such a wonderful tool to help keep your eyes on God through it all and to "get out of that pit". This is the third Beth Moore book I have read (the first was When Godly People do Ungodly Things and I am ongoingly reading Praying God's Word Day by Day)and she is such a blessing--accessible and solid.
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By melding love, science, and religion into a primer on personal growth, M. Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book. Even to this day, Peck remains at the forefront of spiritual psychology as a result of The Road Less Traveled. In the era of I'm OK, You're OK, Peck was courageous enough to suggest that "life is difficult" and personal growth is a "complex, arduous and lifelong task." His willingness to expose his own life stories as well as to share the intimate stories of his anonymous therapy clients creates a compelling and heartfelt narrative.
Book Description
Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than seven million copies in the United States and Canada, and translations into more than twenty-three languages, it has made publishing history, with more than ten years on the New York Times bestseller list.
Now, with a new Introduction by the author, written especially for this twenty-fifth anniversary deluxe trade paperback edition of the all-time national bestseller in its field, M. Scott Peck explains the ideas that shaped this book and that continue to influence an ever-growing audience of readers.
Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to help us explore the very nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us learn how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become a more sensitive parent; and ultimately how to become one's own true self.
Recognizing that, as in the famous opening line of his book, "Life is difficult" and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his readers, but rather guides them gently through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.
Customer Reviews:
Growth.......2007-10-18
A unique study of growth through psychotherapy; anyone can benefit. Peck says we already have the knowledge we need, we just draw on it through our conscious; we learn what we already know. He uses patient/doctor discussions to explain his point. Refreshing and informative from the very first page. You will also find it insightful and well reasoned. He finds his chief enemy is invariably laziness; it will take work. Before Peck begins he wants us to know:
"As a psychiatrist, I feel it is important to mention at the outset two assumptions that underlie this book. One is that I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same."
The book begins, where it all starts: with good parenting, via tuff love, kindness, comfort, and delayed gratification. Without this, Peck shows how childhood went on to corrupt our adulthood. And now we need to relearn. The book is divided out into flowing sections; each section is covered by short descriptions set off by sub-headings.
So we learn poor parenting leads to problems in adulthood. Taking the extra time when they are young saves more time later in life. As adults, procrastination haunts us; it is better to suffer now than later; the problems don't go away. We end up passing our freedom on to others (just look at how our country votes!). Because we tend to fool ourselves away from pain and difficulties we don't open ourselves to challenge and growth. Regulating anger is a major problem for many of us. Holding our marriages together is another. There are some very important misconceptions on love. "For the most part, mental illness is caused by and absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth."
How often does the miraculous slip by us without notice; could it occur more than we may know? "Among humanity love is the miraculous force that defies the natural law of entropy"; the mysteries that are grace. Peck says mental illness occurs when one deviates from the will of God: "The closer one comes to godhead, the more one feels sympathy for God. To participate in God's omniscience is also to share His agony." Every one of us has a religion, "so we squabble over our different microcosmic world views, and all wars are holy wars".
Even Jung sees there is something more: "Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away----an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilization, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains".
Wish you well
Scott
My favorite book!.......2007-09-20
I had to write a quick review simply because the one that shows first is so negative. This is my favorite book. The writer below seems to be inferring things from the book that I never did... I completely disagree with the author of the last comment. I do not think Peck is endorsing religion, but rather spirituality, but if you get yours from religion, so be it. Why was he so shocked about the patient and sex comment?.... I am not going to even expand on each aspect of his comment... it would just be a jumbled mess... I recommend this book to anyone. It reveals universal truths and every line... almost every line rings true to me and to many, many people. I understand, after reading the last comment, that it may fly in the face of what is generally accepted by the field (when necessary)... just my kind of book.
Road Less Traveled.......2007-09-19
The book was a collection of run-on sentences. The author appearently, has only a passing aquaintence with periods. The most dissapointing aspect of the book was the title. It is written from the perspective, of an upper, middle class, conservative christian; harly the road less traveled. Unfortunatly, the lowest rating you can give is one star; what a waste of money!
Very important book.......2007-09-12
Quite possibly the most important book I have ever read as I do believe that this book has had a bigger impact on my life than any other. However, I am at a bit of a loss to describe it as it covers a smattering of topics from love to discipline, maturity and religion. If I could only recommend one book to you, this would be it. A MUST read.
Eye opener.......2007-08-03
A great work explaining life in easy to read terms. The Psychology of Dicipline, Love and God - and how they work together. Highly recommend for all those struggling with any relationship problem. Chuck C
Book Description
The best book on investing ever written, this deluxe hardcover re–issue of the 1949 classic work offers Graham's sound and safe principles for investing – principles that have worked for more than the half century since it was first published. Beautifully packaged, this essential work will be a must–have for fans and novices alike. It also features a new Foreword by mutual fund legend, John Bogle.
The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of "value investing", which helps protect investors against the areas of possible substantial error and teaches them to develop long–term strategies with which they will be comfortable down the road.
Over the years, market developments have borne out the wisdom of Graham's basic policies, and in today's volatile market, The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on making the right decisions to protect your investments and make them a success.
This deluxe hardcover re–issue of the original 1949 text by Graham – what Warren Buffett deems to be pure, unadulterated Graham – will feature a beautiful package that will make it an instant must–have for the many fans of Graham, and collectors everywhere, and is further enhanced by the inclusion of a new Foreword from mutual fund legend, creator of the first S&P500 index fund, and founder of The Vanguard Group, John Bogle.
Customer Reviews:
Count on a Classic.......2007-10-16
The all-time classic book on value investing. Originally written in 1949, the book is as valuable and pertinent today as it was when first written.
This is what I was missing for Investing in the stock market.......2007-04-12
During the last five years I entered the stock market and took a couple of seminars on investing in stocks, the seminars were valuable introductions to the market, after reading the book I discovered that what I had learned in those seminars was to behave like an speculator rather than a true investor. After many costly mistakes I know why I needed to read the book. The cases presented in the book of companies that in many cases no longer exist do not harm the wisdom and clarity of the basics needed to become a true investor. I recommend the book to every person who wants to enter the market. It is actually a must read beforehand. Now I know what Warren Buffet means when stating "this is the best book on investing ever written". Hope you will find it as valuable.
Carlos Irving Rojas - Mexico City
It may not be the BIBLE of Investing - But it certainly is the NEW TESTAMENT.......2007-03-10
What are you waiting for, buy the book and rock your world. I am reminded of the old joke we use to tell in Wall Street when I was with Lehman Brothers back in the 1970's. It's the story about the guy who is given permission to remove as much gold as he can from Fort Knox but he only has a morning, and must work alone. He's given a truck and a wagon to haul the gold with. He gets in the truck and heads the wrong way. "Where are you going, you are going the wrong way, you only have a morning to work with, and the clock has started." His answer is classic, "I am going to get breakfast first."
The point is very simple. People are reading Wall Street Journals, getting MBA's, and watching the talking heads on television. I've got portfolio managers who would kill for an edge, and every one of them, all of them are missing the point. It's all there, all the knowledge, all the wisdom you need to become a MASTER in the financial markets. You simply have to know what to read, and you begin by reading THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR.
At Harvard we use to say they divided the building up into two lecture halls tonight. The door at the first hall has a sign that says LECTURE ON GOD, on it. The door of the second lecture hall has a sign that says GOD on it. Everybody wanted to go to the lecture. Listen up folks, this book THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, it's the real thing. This is not Madison Avenue sitting down with a author that they pulled out of Hollywood, and said let's put some interesting witticisms into a book on investing, dress it up, market it smart, and make a couple of bucks.
This is a book by a man with an Einstein type IQ, whose natural abilities were in the financial arena, who has the uncanny skill sets to explain himself in beautiful prose that just about all the rest of us can understand. If you want to be in the stock market, and you haven't read Benjamin Graham, it's like being in a gunfight in the old west, and not having a gun. You got to do the basics, and very few people do.
Wasn't it Woody Allen who said, "80% of making it is just showing up?" If you want to be in the market, and outperform everybody else wanting the same thing, than you can't do the same things they do, or you will get the same results, and that means mediocrity. You are in the race for Alpha, the extraordinary return. To win the race, you need an EDGE. Now how many people do you think are doing the basics? The answer is about as close to zero as you can get.
Investors, just like people want instant gratification with a minimum of effort, energy, and pain, and that's not how smart, astute investing works. You need to read books like this one not once, but over and over again, until it becomes part of you, until emotionally its wisdom becomes imprinted in your brain. You then need to start implementing it. See what kinds of results you are getting, and then make the adjustments necessary to make its wisdom YOUR OWN.
In other words, you need to OWN THE KNOWLEDGTE THAT'S IN THIS BOOK. Can it be done? Yes, but not easily. Benjamin Graham spent a lifetime figuring this stuff out. He didn't hit the ski slopes at Sun Valley. He wasn't sitting by the pool at Bungalow 5, at the Beverly Hills Hotel. He was grinding out the "Margin of Safety" concept, and testing it against the real world, did it work, and did it falter? Was it a 100 percent reliable.
I have heard Warren Buffett his most famous, but not only successful disciple tell the story of how the students in Graham's class room at Columbia would challenge the old man. Graham would used those challenges to make his thinking better, sharper, more real, and in so doing he became a better investor.
You want to know about Mr. Market, and why just about every investor ignores this theory, which is the equivalent of the Quantum Theory in Physics. You need to read the book. In Chapter 11, he teaches you how to value a business, his way. The teachers at Harvard, Wharton, Ross School, and others have nothing on Ben Graham. We are all students at his feet.
In my lifetime, I have worked with some of the smartest people on the planet. My direct mentor is the richest man on Wall Street, and I have known just about every major national and international investor worth his salt in the world in my generation. Every one of them could quote Benjamin Graham, meanwhile the want-to-bees, were out getting fitted for suits, after having lunch at the 21 Club.
Absorb some wisdom from someone who has been there. Read this book; learn about the "Circle of Competence", and the overwhelming importance of investor psychology. It is amazing that in this book several generations old, Ben is dealing with the same issues confronting us today, director independence, broker conflicts, frequent trading and the lack of performance it creates, management teams out of control, and dealing in a self-serving manner.
Each edition of this book is unique in its own way, with different world-class players commenting along side the text. I happen to like this edition because John Bogle (read his books also) is a man who I respect enormously who has impacted the investing world. The revised edition with Warren Buffett commenting is wonderful also. You simply can not go wrong touching anything that has been written by Benjamin Graham. Good luck.
Richard Stoyeck
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Value investing primer.......2007-02-17
This was a pretty good book on value investing. The problem is that the book is 30 years old, and the examples are a bit dated. The thing is that if people find out that a type of investment strategy is profitable, more people invest in it, which makes it less profitable. This is why his examples perhaps do not still hold today - if people know about these pitfalls, presumably they are avoiding them. But I'm not sure if this is really true or not - sometimes people do not change, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
The one thing to take away from this book is that when there is an optimistic spirit in the market, people get carried away, and vice versa. Over time, emotions will always remain as long as people are responsible for trading stocks.
Overall, it's a good intro to investing, but further research into modern statistics needs to follow.
The gold standard in investment titles.......2007-02-08
This classic book on investing belongs on the bookshelf of every investor. The principles that Benjamin Graham outlines are the very precepts that guided such great investors as Warren Buffett, and such mutual fund innovators as John Bogle, the noted Vanguard Group founder, who wrote this edition's foreword. First published in 1949, the text shows a few signs of age, most notably in its discussion of interest rates, investment vehicles such as savings bonds and other time-sensitive subjects. However, those are minor issues. When Benjamin Graham writes about categories of investors, approaches to security analysis, the proper disposition investors should have toward market moves, and other fundamental investment subjects, his advice is timeless. We highly recommend this seminal book.
Book Description
Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will.
In The Little Book, Joel Greenblatt, Founder and Managing Partner at Gotham Capital (with average annualized returns of 40 0.000000or over 20 years), does more than simply set out the basic principles for successful stock market investing. He provides a "magic formula" that is easy to use and makes buying good companies at bargain prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a breakthrough in the academic and professional world, Greenblatt explains it using 6th grade math, plain language and humor. You'll learn how to use this low risk method to beat the market and professional managers by a wide margin. You'll also learn how to view the stock market, why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors, and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone "knows" it.
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Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will. Let Joel Greenblatt, Founder and Managing Partner at Gotham Capital (with average annualized returns of 40% for over 20 years) show you how ""beating the market"" can be made simple and easy. The Little Book does more than simply set out the basic principles for successful stock market investing, it provides a ""magic formula"" that is easy to use and makes buying good companies at bargain prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a clear breakthrough in the academic and professional world, the common sense method is convincingly explained using 6th grade math skills, plain language and humor. Readers will learn how to use this low risk method to beat the market and professional managers by a wide margin. Along the way, readers will also learn: how to view the stock market; why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors; and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone ""knows"" it.
Customer Reviews:
Great book, simple and easy to follow.......2007-10-22
Great book for people that don't want to spent too much time making money. Accompanying website pretty well does all the work for you. A great book from a great performer in the investment world.
Basic, but very good.......2007-10-19
Many have criticized this book as being simplistic. And it is. That's because it's really a very simple concept that has been around for a while. That is, that buying a basket of undervalued stocks will provide better returns than the market average. The system presented here is just a refinement of the low P/E approach that has been tested in many studies and that has been proven to work.
I believe the reason it is presented in such a simplistic manner is that it's meant to be accessible to novice investors and people who simply want to earn higher returns than an index fund without having to invest a lot of time and effort into it. Though that's not to say that more experienced investors won't benefit from reading it also.
Another criticism is that the author stresses that you must have faith in the method to be successful. Some have misrepresented this to suggest that you are asked to blindly believe in the method. This is far from the truth. There is plenty of data presented and nothing about this method conflicts with common sense or with other studies. What the author is saying is that you need to fully accept and understand the rationale of the method and not be shaken by periods of under-performance.
Great Starting Point.......2007-10-17
This is the perfect book to start as a Value Investor.
Greenblatt will show you the way to find out of favor stocks that are poised to make a comeback and putting statistics on the table as good books do. No accounting background needed and no need to suffer boring technical stuff and even better is that after finishing the book you won't have to walk alone because Greenblatt offers his website for free to find investment candidates.
After you finish with this book I would suggest you to try the Little Book on Value Investing by Christopher Browne.
A Solid Buy.......2007-10-16
If you're looking to invest in individual stocks and incorporate a method on how to make your picks, don't miss this truly fantastic book that will hold your hand along the way.
Good Investment Advice.......2007-08-23
He wrote this so anyone can beat the market average--especially beat most of the mutual fund adverages with little risk and little tracking. It is O.K. to buy Blue chip stocks at a lesser cost and hold them as the price goes up. This is not for active traders, but general investors who think they can invest at least as well as many mutual fund managers. You can!
Book Description
Ralph Nader is known for his lifetime of progressive activism and fearless critique of corruption in American politics and society. Yet in this fresh and inspiring new book, Nader takes a look backward–at a serene and enriching childhood spent in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut, and at the traditions he absorbed within his family. From listening to learning, from patriotism to argument, from work to simple enjoyment, Nader revisits seventeen traditions he learned from his parents, his siblings, and the people in his community, and draws from them inspiring lessons for today's society. Blending memoir and thoughtful inspiration, Nader offers readers a chance to look back on a time in American history when the family and the natural world were central in a child's understanding of how to be a conscientious adult.
Among the seventeen traditions he celebrates:
•The Tradition of Listening
•The Tradition of Charity
•The Tradition of Civics
•The Tradition of Work
•The Tradition of Patriotism
•The Tradition of Simple Enjoyment
In his warmest and most personal writing to date, Nader fondly describes his father's restaurant business and how it taught him about work, community and how to share in the spirits of others; the value of his mother's ethnic cooking and how it defined his relationship with his heritage, and the hours he spent as a child wondering through the undeveloped forests of Connecticut where he learned the value of solitude. In doing so, he reawakens our own memories of the blessings of a simpler time–and of the enduring values of family, community, and love that gave him the courage to lead a meaningful life.
Customer Reviews:
The seventeen traditions.......2007-10-17
For the money, it was not much of a book. For the talent accepted for the author, it was not much of a book. Simple platitudes which are mostly captured in the first chapter, and the rest of the book just re-hashes that theme: My parents were great, I am great, why don't you do likewise! Of course it is too late to change parents, but it does give some good foundation thinking for people just starting out to raise a family, and who are looking for some parenting skills.
The Seventeen Traditions.......2007-10-13
The Seventeen Traditions by Ralph Nader is an excellent book.
I have one and would like to order more as gift for my friends.
Nader's World.......2007-09-04
Before fast food, fast commuting, IM-ing and countless other electronic distractions, there was Nader's World. He grew up in a little town in northwest Connecticut, where traditions were passed down, people listened to each other, families not only ate dinner together but enjoyed one another's company afterward, the sidewalks were in greater use, hitchhiking was safe, and public service was honorable. This reflection by Ralph Nader explains the roots of his passions: independent thinking, involvement in civic affairs, and insistence on fairness and social justice. He was raised in a loving, nurturing family, where his parents taught by example and used proverbs and Socratic questioning to stimulate the intellectual curiosity of Nader and his siblings.
In contrast to his more cerebral writing, this book is quite readable. I read the whole thing in a couple of hours this Labor Day. Its format is inspirational - albeit with some Tuesday's-with-Morrie-like schmaltz along with Emersonian wisdom - touching emotional chords and revealing a side of Ralph Nader that political pundits often miss.
Ralph Nader's Bridge To A Past Not Dominated By Commerical Entertainment.......2007-08-24
The author of this book succeeds here on several levels. First, Ralph Nader explains himself well: who he is, and how he got to become who he is.
Second, the author explains how growing up in a low-media, high intensity household gave him lifelong advantages, insights, and commitments--things he might not have had he been enmeshed in movies, television shows, video games, rap music, etc.
Third, the author details the family traditions from Lebanese parents that were especially useful to him during his 45 years or so of national leadership of various causes.
Fourth, the author provides a warm evocation of a Christian Arabic family that can aid in improving understanding of Arab speaking people in and outside the United States.
The seventeen traditions that the author discovers in mining his family history are the traditions of listening, the family table, health, history, scarcity, sibling equality, education and argument, discipline, simple enjoyments, reciprocity, independent thinking, charity, work, business, patriotism, solitude and civics. These are traditions, he demonstrates, that his family lived, not just ideals that they mouthed.
Had this book been published the year before the 1992 Presidential election, when the author was toying with seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination, he could well have been a serious candidate for that nomination and changed both his political future and the direction of our country. Without pretentiousness, it shows him to be a man of depth, understanding and roots in small-town America.
The author sketches memorable portraits of his restaurant-owner and politically outspoken father; his wise, loving, and community active mother; his older brother, an attorney and community college founder; his sisters, Ph.Ds with enviable records of scholarship and academic leadership; his nephew, who has a doctorate and ecology, and two nieces, a lawyer and a Ph.D. in infectious diseases. The author certainly has a family committed to education and the welfare of us all.
Elements of the author's crusading zeal are submerged but very much present here. He refers to "these times of widespread conformity and self-censorship." Speaking of his hometwon of Winsted, Connecticut, he notes that "The air and the water became clearer after the factories closed, but the toxic soils and hollowed-out remained, economic tripwires to any new development in the area."
"Today," the author notes, "children everywhere are deprived of expsoure to nature in the same way (as only big city children used to be); they grow up with their eyes, ears, tastes and other senses trained on a corporate world of sensual visual reality--removed, as no generation in human history, from the daily flow and rhythm of history."
The book jacket notes that author was recently named by the Atlantic magazine as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history. This customer reviewer does not dispute that rating and hopes that the author will continue finding ways to speak out and positively influence the American social and political debate.
try not to finish it in one day.......2007-08-10
it is a brilliant book... book that "teaches you to think not to believe" Mr. Nader's life is full of wisdom so are his parents'. I usually don't write reviews but for this one, I could afford not to. you can't read this book and not relate it to something in your life... sometimes you feel that he is talking about you, your life and your family... it is great read...
Book Description
A comprehensive value investing framework for the individual investor
In a straightforward and accessible manner, The Dhandho Investor lays out the powerful framework of value investing. Written with the intelligent individual investor in mind, this comprehensive guide distills the Dhandho capital allocation framework of the business savvy Patels from India and presents how they can be applied successfully to the stock market. The Dhandho method expands on the groundbreaking principles of value investing expounded by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, and Charlie Munger. Readers will be introduced to important value investing concepts such as "Heads, I win! Tails, I don't lose that much!," "Few Bets, Big Bets, Infrequent Bets," Abhimanyu's dilemma, and a detailed treatise on using the Kelly Formula to invest in undervalued stocks. Using a light, entertaining style, Pabrai lays out the Dhandho framework in an easy-to-use format. Any investor who adopts the framework is bound to improve on results and soundly beat the markets and most professionals.
Customer Reviews:
Investing Made Simple.......2007-10-22
Using the examples of small businesses, such as, motels, gas stations, etc., Mohnish Pabrai has done a masterful job of explaining intrinsic value. Fans of Warren Buffett and his style of investing will benefit greatly from The Dhandho Investor.
Buffett and Munger would be proud.......2007-10-22
2007 Wiley, 196 pages (of which 183 pages for main body of book)
On the back of the Dhandho Investor is some blurb by Whitney Tilson saying that he read the book from start to finish in one sitting. The Dhandho Investor is that kind of book: it is short and engaging.
Pabrai's book is about what he calls high uncertainty, low risk investment. The main idea is that there are certain types of situations, which - though heavily shrouded by uncertainty and thus apparently very risky - actually offer very low risk of capital loss and good odds of a decent return. I like the way Pabrai puts it when discussing Stewart Enterprises:
"Wall Street could not distinguish between risk and uncertainty, and it got confused between the two."
Pabrai's book is basically an exposition of the key ideas from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger in the form of a usable framework to produce really significant stock market outperformance. I would like to emphasise that last point: really significant outperformance. Pabrai understands very well that the long-term buy-and-hold strategy Buffett and Munger espouse publicly literally cannot produce returns that are very significantly above the market (over the long term and without use of leverage or insurance float). Here is what Pabrai said on the subject in a recent Q&A with Gurufocus.com:
"Very, very few businesses generate ROE [return on equity] exceeding 15-20% annually and have the ability to redeploy earnings at greater than 15-20% ROE. Thus it is unlikely Berkshire's stock portfolio can generate long-term returns exceeding 15%. Their float helps them get higher effective returns."
(You can find the two Q&A sessions here: http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=8955
and here: http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=10005. They are particularly useful, as I could not find these explicit comments on why Pabrai does not follow Buffett's buy-and-hold-forever philosophy in The Dhandho Investor - though it is implicit in the book's content. I first came across Pabrai's exemplary reasoning in an interview with him published in James Altucher's book, Trade Like Warren Buffett.)
Pabrai's book is entirely successful when looked at from the point of view of providing the framework I referred to above for major stock market outperformance. It is less successful when Pabrai goes into using the Kelly Formula for calculating optimum position sizes. (The Kelly Formula is a mathematical formula for calculating the optimum percentage of your bankroll to bet on a favourable bet, if you know the correct odds compared to the actual odds being offered on the bet.)
Pabrai's use of the Kelly Formula in The Dhandho Investor reads as an afterthought. For example, in his Stewart Enterprises case study Pabrai states:
"I hadn't heard of the Kelly Formula back then, but I didn't need anything beyond third grade math to know that this is a very favourable bet to make."
He then goes on to state that the Kelly Formula indicates he should have bet 97% (sic) of his bankroll, but that Pabrai Funds actually invested 10% of its assets in Stewart Enterprises.
However, now that Pabrai does know about the Kelly Formula he still invests 10% of assets in each investment and does not attempt to change the position sizing according to his assessment of the odds of each bet (investment).
As the answers produced by the Kelly Formula bear little resemblance to Pabrai's actual positions, his entire use of the Kelly Formula reads like an ex post attempt to explain what he was already doing.
To be fair, Pabrai does try - though not entirely convincingly - to reconcile the differences between his actual position sizing and the results dictated by the Kelly Formula. For example, he explains that the situations are too uncertain for him to be sure which potential investments will actually produce the best result. However, this seems to argue against any attempt at exact use of the Kelly Formula - rather than plugging in the numbers and then disregarding the answer.
His much better explanation of his sub-Kelly position sizing is that he has an overabundance of roughly equally good ideas and thus wishes to buy them all. However, he doesn't say what he would do (or has done) if he found a dearth of clearly good ideas: would he hold cash or increase the weighting of his best ideas? (This would surely be the test of whether he actually uses the Kelly Formula, rather than just talks about it.)
That carping aside, I really enjoyed The Dhandho Investor and thought it was an excellent reminder of how important it is to load up on a few best ideas if you want really good results. There are also odds bits of other very good advice throughout the book, as when he advises strongly to focus on one potential investment at a time before investing or discarding and then moving on. Highly recommended.
Great.......2007-10-15
Pabrai's book provides great insight into how to practically apply the value approach to investing. Additionally, the Pabrai provides a low risk investment framework. The book draws on much of what Buffett has said over the years, but takes the extra step of demonstrating how Pabrai has put that wisdom into practice.
A 'must read' for any value investor!.......2007-09-28
Thank you Mr. Pabrai for sharing your investment philosophy! While I thought the initial portion of the book was not very helpful to someone already well-versed in value investing concepts, I thought the bulk of the book was exceptionally well-done with an inside look at how Mr. Pabrai analyzes his buy, sell, and hold decisions. The sell decision framework is particularly helpful. Also the many resources listed for finding undervalued stocks was great. This is definitely one of the best investment books out there and I highly recommend it.
Dhandho Investor.......2007-09-14
Used his book as a promotion for his own fund, focused entirely too much on real estate and unrealistic investments, mediocre writing quality.
Book Description
In the grand scheme of things, money's not that important. It's important only to the extent that it allows you to enjoy what's important to you. And not worrying about your finances is critical to having a life that excites you, nurtures those you love, and fulfills your highest aspirations. If you want to make smart choices about money, based on what is important to you--your core values--this book is for you.
This informative and well-written book will help you build a financial strategy, starting with your own unique values--what is truly important to you. By defining these unique values, you can create a plan that not only looks good on paper, but spurs you to follow through and achieve your goals. Values-Based Financial Planning: The Art of Creating and Inspiring Financial Strategy will help you realize what's important to you, align your financial choices with the great life you want, and become inspired to do whatever it takes to have that life.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Book "Must Read".......2007-10-07
I have been investing over 18 years with a this concept. Love it, It pays, I sitting on a very nice nest egg. Trust, your values are the key to successful plan. I have many friends that think they can do this by themselves and are broke. All the trades online will take you down the drain. I have seen it. The book is on target. It is a quick read, to the point. After reading this one read the book Elephant in the Room.
My advice to you is...........2007-07-30
If you are an Advisor, read the book for the good of your clients. If you are a client, read the book for your benefit and the benefit for your Advisor. The main focus is on personal values, but the issue of the Client-Advisor relationship is explored as well. You may be a nightmare Advisor, or you may be a nightmare Client. Find out, and if so, fix it!
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due.......2006-06-16
As a financial professional who strives daily to help my clients make smart choices about their money, I am impressed by Bill's personalized approach to helping people take control of their lives by showing them ways to create and implement a viable foundation for their ideal financial future. There are many approaches of course, perhaps infinite, to planning wisely for your future. No one method or process is perfect. However, if you're truly serious about taking financial control over your future, whether you invest for yourself or work with a competent professional, then seek ideas and methods that are focused on helping YOU fulfill what's important to you in life. Bill's work talks directly about doing this and in beneficial ways that can help you make real progress towards achieving your lifetime goals and fulfilling your values.
Solid and broad-picture financial book for investors.......2005-05-26
Bachrach does a great job at helping investors identify their own personality type and recognize what is really important to them in investing. You wont find stock tips in this book but you will find the tools needed to create an overall roadmap and financial plan to help you meet your true root financial goals. This is the important part. One of my favorite points that Mr. Bachrach makes, one that I emphasize with people I advise is that there are certain things you can't hire someone to do for you: spending time with your family, exercise, travel etc. There are some things you can delegate- financial planning is one of them. Bill Bachrach also has a healthy and objective view about advice for investors who are not sure if they want to use the services of an advisor.
If you want the book with the hot trading tip of the day to add to your 500 book collection of investing books, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for an overall strategy to help meet your financial goals then this book is recommended.
Live your life following what's most important- Your Values.......2004-03-01
Bill Bachrach's book can help all investors, young and old, to reach all their financial goals so they can live the best possible life. Because everyone is different, that best life will be different for everyone.
Even the "do-it-yourself" investor can make better decisions by understanding that investing is not about getting the highest returns all the time, because no one can do that, but, it is about getting the returns they need to reach their financial goals without taking undue risks.
"Collaborators", those who like to get ideas from, and bounce ideas off, an investment salesperson, can make better decisions about where to invest their money.
Finally, "Delagators", those who want to spend their time on those things that are more important than money, such as their health, their important relationships, and their career or retirement, can have a way to find a "Trusted Advisor" who will help them reach their financial goals by preparing a proper investment, tax, and estate plan and coach them to implement the plan.
Inside, the reader will find a blank "Financial Road Map" to complete at home, or, with their advisor. There is also a valuable comparison of a "Trusted Advisor" and a "Salesperson" to help in the selection of someone to help implement the plan.
Bill Bachrach has developed this approach over the last fifteen years. Bill has been recognized as one of the most influencial people in the financial services industry in the U.S.A. He has coached hundreds of advisors in North America and around the world in his process. His stated goal is to help change the financial services industry to become more client oriented.
Book Description
There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world.
Customer Reviews:
Valuable Book.......2007-10-18
The "Little Book" Collection is a nice effort to bring sound investment advice to the average Joe like me in an understandable language, no bloviating here!
Terms like EBITDA, P/E Ratio, Cash Flow or Return on Capital sound frightening but Browne succeeds at presenting them in an accessible way, these concepts are important for those looking to give a fair treatment to their hard earned bucks. Value Investing, as Browne suggests based on tons of studies presented in the book, has outperformed the markets in the long run, so there is no reason for not assuming responsibility of your money and give a long term try to Value, especially if you are among those like me that believe that you can make money by buying $1 dollar bills for 60 cents.
For newbies in Value Investing and Contrarian strategies Joel Greenblatt's "Little Book that Beats the Market" is a perfect complement. For those who want to keep building knowledge I suggest to look for David Dreman's "Contrarian Investments Strategies" and "The Education of a Speculator" from Victor Niederhoffer, which is the best book on the Contrarian approach to investing.
Enlightning.......2007-08-27
I am an Investment Advisor and after 12 years of experience I have confirmed what has been in my mind for years. The Value approach does work. "Patience is a virtue" and a well paid one if you develope it.
Ramón A. Rivera-Ramos(Monchi)
Value investing oversimplified--poorly explained and unfocused.......2007-08-14
The Little Book of Value Investing is billed as an introduction to value investing--as a quick way to learn the tenets of this particular investment style and to lay a groundwork for either choosing a fund to manage your money or for further research. Instead it is a superficial look at value investing, quickly glossing over some very important aspects of choosing a company, failing to warn of the potential pitfalls that may arise, and presenting value investing as the only `safe' way to invest, which it is not. A value investing approach can fail in the market as well, and this book more or less refuses to acknowledge that.
This is one of those investing books I put in the "avoid" category for the simple reason that it provides just enough information to go out and get yourself hurt in the stock market. It skims the surface of many basic value investing tenets without going into enough detail to really help someone choose a company adequately. Worse yet it seems to set someone up perfectly for a "value trap"--a company that appears cheap when you examine it but which ends up performing very poorly for years after you buy it. An example: Browne explains price to earnings and argues that lower is better, advising that one of the primary criteria for value stocks is a low P/E relative to the market. He gives the example of some banks to show a low P/E stock. That's all well and good, but it's important to recognize that financials traditionally have lower P/Es than many other industries. If you really want to find value you need to evaluate a company's P/E relative to its historic price to earnings ratio, as well as compare it to the P/E of it's peers. Buying an integrated oil company at 15 times earnings will seem cheap if you've been looking at stocks with P/Es of 20, but if the company's peers are trading at 10 times earnings it does you little good.
Browne's example seems dangerous to me, as do many others he gives. When advising screening for a low P/E he never mentions a potential pitfall--that low P/E stocks can quickly turn into high P/E stocks if earnings estimates are slashed. A good example of this was homebuilding stocks in late 2006. Some of them were selling at 4 times earnings, but only until the earnings estimates were cut to the point that the P/E ratio suddenly became high and then in some cases ceased to exist as these companies began losing money. Browne's argument that stocks trading close to book value have a margin of safety is also flawed-what if the book value includes a bunch of real estate (again, homebuilders being a prime example) that was purchased high and is now declining in value?
It's not that Browne's advice is bad--it's just that it's limited and very incomplete. I feel it is important when teaching about investing to treat both the benefits AND the risks of a particular style of investing, and Browne fails to do that. Instead he acts as if following the simple methods he sets forth will give you a margin of safety (a la Ben Graham) that is foolproof. It is not.
My biggest problem with the book, however, stems from the fact that only about half of it has anything to do with investing at all. Browne rambles from time to time throughout the first half of the book, touching upon various principles here and there in a more or less disorganized manner. About 2/3 of the way through the book, however, he abandons any actual teaching, and spends most of the last 50 or so pages grinding his personal axes against clients, growth investing, bubbles, and a whole slew of other topics. That part of the book is useless in my opinion, especially since most of it is a rehash of things he ranted on earlier in the book.
When it's all said and done I cannot conceive why anyone would benefit from reading this book. If you're interested and are new to value investing this book, which can be read easily in one sitting, will not provide you the groundwork you need. If you're already a student, or at least a casual observer, of value investing you won't need someone to explain what a P/E ratio is to you and why lower is often better. Skip this one-if you want to learn about value investing there are many books out there that will provide you with the actual groundwork you need without glossing over and dismissing the limitations.
Helpful if limited in scope.......2007-07-29
After reading the first book in the "Little Book" series (The Little Book that Beats the Market), this book is a welcome change. It actually has information that one might find useful should he or she want to try value investing on their own. It lays out everything one should look for in a good company -- low debt, high returns on assets, competent management. It outlines how might one do their homework, and avoid some pitfalls.
It's a great beginner's guide to investing. And Browne explains things in a patient way that clearly shows he's been in the business for years and years. It's hard to think he's wrong.
What I found frustrating is that he tells us about how all of the REALLY good value stocks are overseas, but that information and accounting standards are spotty at best, so you're going to have learn German and Japanese and teach yourself international financial accounting standards to get the best deals and returns. Not exactly the domain of the small personal investor.
His tips are useful in screening stocks, and I plan on using them. And his point that finding the real gems in the stock market takes a lot of work rings true. I guess I wish, along with everyone else here, that it wasn't so hard to find the bargain names. So, Mr. Browne loses a star for dousing too much cold water reality on my stock-picking dreams.
Good Overview .... The Road to Wealth .......2007-07-06
Author Brown provides a very readable overview to the topic of value investing. Reading it may not make you the next Warren Buffet, but will give you insights into a more staid but consistently successful method of investing. This is the antithesis of day trading.
Unlike many financial tomes, this one need not come with English subtitles! Each chapter is like a stand-alone essay.
Invest your time wisely by reading, "The Little Book of Value Investing"!!
Book Description
Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path. In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day is inspired by one of the most obscure yet courageous acts recorded in Scripture, a blessed and audacious act that left no regrets: âBenaiah chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed itâ (2 Samuel 23:20 -21). Unleash the lion chaser within!
What if
the life you really want,
and
the future
God wants for you,
is hiding
right
now
in your biggest
problem,
your worst
failureâ¦
your greatest
fear
?
Story Behind the Book
âOur best days often start out as our worst days. And our greatest opportunities are often disguised as our biggest problems. You can land in a pit with a lion on a snowy day, and it will seem like the end of the road. But God is in the recycling business. He recycles past experiences and uses them to prepare us for future opportunities. That is the story of my life. And that is the story of your life. Look in the rearview mirror long enough and you’ll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you’ve beenâeven when it seemed you’d taken a wrong turn.â âMark Batterson
Customer Reviews:
Powerful and informative.......2007-10-10
This book changed my perspective on some rough things I have been going through. In a instant it changed everything in my world.
I recommend it to anyone who is wondering what they are doing with their lives and how they ended up where they are. It answers a lot of questions and emboldens and strengthens. It is exciting.
Great Motivator to Pursue the Audacious.......2007-09-17
This unusual title comes from a Bible verse in 2 Samuel 23:20-21 which says, "There was also Beniah son of Jehoiada, a valiant warrior from Kabzeel. He did many heoic deeds, which included killing two of Moab's mightiest warriors. Another time he chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it. Another time, armed only with a club, he killed a great Egyptian warrior who was armed with a spear. Benaiah wrenched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with it."
So basically, Beniah was the freaking man. He was the type of guy you'd want on your side going into battle. He became the head of the bodygaurd for King David and eventually became the comander of the army of Israel under King Solomon.
The book is based around this passage and goes on to expand and describe how seemingly difficult circumstances which one might initially shy away from or avoid can turn out for great good if faced head on.
Batterson describes a number of modern day lion chasers whom he has known such as a Georgetown lawyer who stopped practicing law to make a film about human trafficking in Uganda, a tenured professor who quit his post and started a dot com company, a college graduate who moved to the Marshall Islands to teach English, and an executive at Microsoft who gave up millions of dollars in stock options to start a church. Batterson himself is a lion chaser in that he moved to Washington D.C. to plant a church in the heart of D.C. on Capitol Hill which meets at a movie theatre in Union Station.
There are all kinds of logical reason not to do certain things but sometimes we need to have some guts and just go for it. God doesn't call us to a life of mediocrity but wants great things to happen through His work in us. Many times these things don't seem to make sense in our finite understanding but God is working so that He will be glorified if we're willing to step out in faith.
A great scene from the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" illustrates this concept as well. Jones is faced with a great chasm which is impossible to jump across but realizes it is a step of faith. When he takes a step out into thin air despite what his eyes see in the great depth below, he then finds firm ground and is able to walk across the chasm.
Of course there are times to be practical and follow common sense as well. One should not simply jump into something just because it sounds fun or exciting. It should be thought out and prayed about. God has a tendency to confirm direction towards lion chasing opportunities.
A quality quote from Mark Twain also illustrates this mentality. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Throughout the book Batterson helps motivate the reader and give them the chutzpah to go tackle tough tasks and chase lions. I recommend it for anyone who might be hestitating about something in life or who needs a little extra encouragement in seeking out and going after goals in life.
A Must Read.......2007-09-13
We need more lion chasers. Life is too short to "play it safe". This is a great book and worth the time to sit down and read.
Simply Amazing!.......2007-08-05
Probably one of the greatest books I have ever read. Basically if you are looking for a book to pump you up, to get off your butt and go do something in the world, instead of sitting around eating ice cream on your couch, then get this book. It will change your life!!!
In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When opportunity Roars.......2007-07-10
I was in a bookstore and the cover caught my eye. I picked it up and read the back cover and had to have it. I'm only partly through it and it is a must read, especially for those who are told God never says NO or always answers our prayers..
Book Description
"Sweet spot." Golfers understand the term. So do tennis players. Ever swung a baseball bat or paddled a Ping-Pong ball? If so, you know the oh-so-nice feel of the sweet spot. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride. But you don't have to swing a bat or a club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you.
A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in his jigsaw puzzle. And life makes sweet sense when you find your spot.
But if you're like 87 percent of workers, you haven't found it. You don't find meaning in your work--or you're one of the 80 percent who don't believe their talents are used. What can you do? You're suffering from the common life, and you desperately need a cure.
Best-selling author Max Lucado has found it. In
Cure for the Common Life he offers practical tools for exploring and identifying your own uniqueness, motivation to put your strengths to work, and the perfect prescription for finding and living in your sweet spot for the rest of your life.
Customer Reviews:
Christian reading.......2007-08-23
Max Lucado is a wonderful writer, good reading and good
applications to our lives.
What's in your tool kit?.......2007-06-17
A practical guide to exploring how to know yourself, and your real calling, a bit better! Lucado's thought is that God gives us each a unique tool kit, suited for a unique destiny! Hopeful, fun, readable! I read it aloud with my homeschooled son, and we enjoyed discussions.
Cake or Death?.......2007-06-05
Another book that would do better service, it seems, as a shim under a wobbly table than as a last-ditch prop for a moribund worldview.
To Be Swallowed.......2007-04-24
Imagine three circles intertwined (a la Olympic rings), with one central area where all three cirlces converge.
Circle #1 is Your Everyday Life
Circle #2 is Your Strengths
Circle #3 is God's Glory
Where the circles converge....there is Your Sweet Spot. This is what Max Lucado writes in his book "Cure for the Common Life: How to Live in Your Sweet Spot."
I've read some of Max Lucado's children's books to my kids - sweet, poignant stories about accepting who you are as a divine creation of a divine being. When I saw this book at the library, I thought it might be interesting to read what this Christian author had to say about adults and our everyday lives. Not surprisingly, his message is the same for the parents as it is for his younger audiences: accept who you are as a divine creation of a divine being.
Lucado spends much of this book cheering the reader on to accept and act upon the principles that each of us is created with unique worth and talents and abilities. "Your life has a plot; your years have a theme. You can do something in a manner that no one else can."
He compares each of us to a piece of luggage being packed for a trip. If you were going to Hawaii in July you wouldn't pack a parka and snow boots. You would pack what was appropriate for the time, place, the owner of the bag. WE are prepackaged by God for the lives we are to lead while here on our earthly "trip": when/where/who we are. We find unhappiness when we try to fit ourselves into the clothing in someone else's bag. If that were to happen in real life - if we pick up the wrong suitcase at the airport terminal - what would we do? He says, "you'd hunt down your own bag. Issue an all-points bulletin. Call the airport. The taxi service...No one wants to live out of someone else's bag. Then why do we? Odds are, someone urged a force fit into clothes not packed for you." Sometimes, that "someone" is ourselves, isn't it?
Lucado suggests that we get smart and get brave about trying to live in our Sweet Spot. He challenges us to find the things that we love to do, where we have natural abilities and feel the greatest measures of success, and then incorporate those things into our everyday. In doing so, we glorify God by glorifying the gifts and talents he gave us. I know, I know, people have been saying for years that a genius is the person who can figure out a way to make a living doing what he loves, but how many of us really go for it? And I, for one, never really thought about it in terms of my faith. If I have faith that God made me individually, that he knows every hair on my head, then doesn't it make sense that he cares about how I spend every minute of my day?
There are chapters that deal with how to make the most of what you ~are~ doing, if an immediate change is not feasible. Lucado says, basically, take God to work with you. Every single day, have Him in your heart, and it will change how you do things.
Lucado by profession is a preacher, and some of the sections are...well..."preachy". I even started snoring a bit at some of the parts, and I'm a believer. I also wondered if he's gotten to be such a prolific author that the editors give him the go-ahead a little sooner than they should (holy goat, the man rambles!). But all in all, I think this book has some very profound things to say about what we should choose to do and why we should choose to do it.
There is an acronym in the book that is meant to help readers find their Sweet Spot. It is STORY:
S: Strengths (what are yours? what comes easily? VERB)
T: Topics (what do you like to talk about? learn about? NOUN)
O: Optimal Conditions (under what conditions do you naturally thrive? what triggers your motivation?)
R: Relationships (what is your ideal relationship pattern? alone? in a group?)
Y: Yes! (what is paydirt? what makes you say YES!)
One of the ways to study your STORY is to read your life backwards. Regress through adulthood to adolescence to childhood, and try to chart out times when you felt the strongest about something you were passionate about. Something that made you think (or say) Yes! There is a section at the back of the book that offers worksheets helping the reader to identify those types of moments throughout their life. The ultimate goal is to rid yourself of your common life and make things extraordinary.
I really enjoyed this book and felt it was a fresh way to look at my life and how I'd like to revamp it.
What the other don't tell you..........2007-03-12
I've read a lot of the other reviews--and they are right. This is a good book. However, what I don't see is a general warning: THIS BOOK IS HARD! For the 87% of us not in our sweet spots, you really have to peel back layers of self-defense and coping mechanisms that get you through the day-to-day grind of work. It's worth it, but as truths surface, they ripple. There is pain with this growth, but stick with it. The truth's worth it. Very life changing.
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