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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
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This was a repetitive read. Fifty pages was sufficient to get the message accross. What is the message, you ask? Well part of it is to notice the feelings underlying your experiences. Moreover, whatever life throws at you, the good and the bad, is proceeded by a certain feeling that is either positive or negative. This point is not very controversial amongst the “skeptics.” However, what is controversial, is the notion that this positive or negative FEELING forms a corresponding positive or negative BELIEF that in turn BEGETS more positivity or negativity in one’s life. Hence the “pseudo-scientific” Law of Attraction. According to Byrne, if one visualizes getting new car and truly FEELS that they already have it, they WILL get it.
To many reasonable people, this is an absurd notion, and I would have to partially agree. Yet, if we were to remain objective here, I feel like scientific literature favors Byrne’s side, at least slightly. Optimistic people have simply better outcomes in life than their morose, despairing counterparts. They have better relationships, make more money, have more successful careers, better health, etc. So, pragmatically, why not just believe and feel that you’ll get that car? If you believe it, you will act accordingly, and put yourself in a better position to receiving it.
So yeah, I kind of agree with Byrne. She loves to speak in absolutes and make cringey New Age “connections” to quantum physics, triggering my inner skeptic, but overall, 3/5 stars. There is a grain of humanistic truth to the Law of Attraction and it is potent.
I don’t necessarily recommend the book ( Rhonda seems like a lovely human though), but I do recommend watching David Steindl-Rast's ted talk about gratitude that echoes a point in The Power that I find essential to inner peace. Once you understand and apply gratitude, a better life naturally follows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBsl3j0YRQ
This was a repetitive read. Fifty pages was sufficient to get the message accross. What is the message, you ask? Well part of it is to notice the feelings underlying your experiences. Moreover, whatever life throws at you, the good and the bad, is proceeded by a certain feeling that is either positive or negative. This point is not very controversial amongst the “skeptics.” However, what is controversial, is the notion that this positive or negative FEELING forms a corresponding positive or negative BELIEF that in turn BEGETS more positivity or negativity in one’s life. Hence the “pseudo-scientific” Law of Attraction. According to Byrne, if one visualizes getting new car and truly FEELS that they already have it, they WILL get it.
To many reasonable people, this is an absurd notion, and I would have to partially agree. Yet, if we were to remain objective here, I feel like scientific literature favors Byrne’s side, at least slightly. Optimistic people have simply better outcomes in life than their morose, despairing counterparts. They have better relationships, make more money, have more successful careers, better health, etc. So, pragmatically, why not just believe and feel that you’ll get that car? If you believe it, you will act accordingly, and put yourself in a better position to receiving it.
So yeah, I kind of agree with Byrne. She loves to speak in absolutes and make cringey New Age “connections” to quantum physics, triggering my inner skeptic, but overall, 3/5 stars. There is a grain of humanistic truth to the Law of Attraction and it is potent.
I don’t necessarily recommend the book ( Rhonda seems like a lovely human though), but I do recommend watching David Steindl-Rast's ted talk about gratitude that echoes a point in The Power that I find essential to inner peace. Once you understand and apply gratitude, a better life naturally follows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBsl3j0YRQ
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I liked it better then the secret. I listened to the audiobook and anytime I was in a grumpy mood I would put it on. It would help change my mood. Just a reminder to “Love” is a great message.
I found it a bit hard to maintain focus while reading this book. It might have been because a thought would get hold on to me and carry me far away to explore all its possibilities. I liked this book. It's definitely a good way to approach life.
Good, quick, easy read. Slightly repetitive but informative nonetheless.
Way too airy-fairy for my liking. I couldn't get into it no matter how hard I tried. Just the way it was written irked me and came across as wishy-washy nonsense. Out of everything, I actually just liked the quotes the most. I get the concept, and I've watched the movie version of The Secret, but this was just too much. There was absolutely no need for this book and it added nothing the first didn't say.
this book gave me a lot of confidence and changed my point of view on a lot of things...love it :) def a re-read in the future
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
I did like this book, and I especially was motivated and inspired to be more positive in my daily life. However, it was extremely repetitious and hard to get through. The problem is there is really only one central idea in the book (love) and it can only be re-stated so many times . . . and this book went way beyond the number of acceptable times! The first few chapters are very inspiring, but then the rest of the book is just re-stating the same thing over and over.
Surely made me a happier and even more grateful person. ✌