FAO Alasdair ref. The 4 Arguments

[Aleksandra]

Hi

 

What is this book you often refer to? I've looked it up on Amazon and the review makes it sound like yet another self-help book, which I'm pretty sure it can't be, somehow I can't imagine you sitting reading some American self-help nonsense.

 

Thanks

Aleksandra

[alasdairm]

hey A

 

it's called the 4 agreements (not arguments ) and it probably looks, to many, like some hippy-crunchy LA-air-head, self-help book.

 

there is a little bit of that to it i suppose - there's something of a stigma attached to "self-help" books. why, i can't imagine.

 

the reason i love the four agreements is that it gives some solid advice in a very straightforward way and it doesn't preach.

 

i'd encourage people to read it and make up their own minds obviously - if somebody reads it and thinks it's new-age crap, good for them.

 

many others have read it and found the advice valuable. i'm one of those people.

 

alasdair

[Aleksandra]

Thanks! I actually meant agreements...was that a Freudian slip or what

 

The reason why I say 'American self-help nonsense' is not because I have anything against the concept of self-help. I'm all for empowerment and taking responsibility!

 

But the self-help market seems saturated with books by superficial, saccharine American writers, who generalise, trivialise, preach... There are also some assumptions many of those books make about life and people that I really disagree with - and I think that rather than helping in any serious way many of them actually promote total denial and self-deception - but that's a subject of another debate!

But I'll definitely give this book a chance because now I'm intrigued, and it may be completely different from what I'm referring to.

Cheers

A.