It has been a really long time since I read something for pleasure. " The Monk who sold his Ferrari". I know it is quite a late discovery ( Citation: Pavithra Anantharaman) considering it has been three years since publication and there a million and half to be precise who have read before me .
Do not judge a book by its cover - How true!. I did not have the slightest idea about Robin Sharma and considering it was suggested by pavithra , I probably thought it was a novel and proved wrong on what a motivation book it turned out to be.
This Book is not for you -
If you are not very enthusiastic about the philosophies of life being preached upon your ears.
Nutshell:
It was on the lines of books like 'Magic of Thinking Big '. The book is a narration of a fable through which the author brings about all the ingredients for a happy ,meaningful life . The author starts with the story of two litigators . One of whom Julian Mantle drowned in the earth's materialism ,any typical humans needs -money,greed breaks down in his professional and personal life and decides he could not take any more of this .Hence our buddha of the story renounces his possesions ( his "Ferrari " + all his other possesions) and travels to East, and from Sages of Shivana, he learns precious jewels of wisdom and comes back to spread his drop of knowledge to his friend in the west .
All that i liked :
- The author knew how to put his points across in a way readers would read which differentiated the book from its genre of books like our (" Tamizh commercial movie with a karuthu ;))
- His picture mnemonics (the fable) was very good idea to make the readers chew and swallow what they read.
- I loved his concepts on
- Mind as a garden
- Heart of Rose
- Secret Lake
- 21 Day rule
- Goal setting ritual
- Ritual of reflection
-Ritual of Nourishment (whatever was the ritual connected to what we eat)
- Theory of Oppositon Thinking
- All the above mentioned ones were absolutely practical and definitely fruitful.
Critics may say:
The book is something which we already know . Though I dont deny the "Opposition Thinking " was nothing different from our friends advice on " yen athayey potu kolipikra nalladha nenai" ,mom's advice on "kandatha sapdatha "- 'Ritual of Nourishment' . But for of all them i like to point out what Robin said " Books teach us nothing new "- it just brings out in us what we probably have forgotten .
Things that went into my statuses and diary:
# Never regret the past ,embrace it for the great teacher that it is.
# Learn to say No to people - Ishwarya Murali, really arent you kinda born intelligent :P # reminisces of you advice to me on my OT 's i did ! ??
# Live the day as your last - ( I have definitely had little Robin in me before :P)
# Worries just drain your mind, replace them with joyous thoughts.
# I should definitely gift this book to my parents.
What it made for me:
Helped me revive all the thing that i have forgotten lately (thanks to FB , work)
- I definitely should eat ' keerai ':( [Moderation], paavakai [ No !Extreme]
- See what happened to my Blogosphere.
- Should i deactivate my Fb for a while (Probably not, No extremes 'Moderation:P)
- Definitely been long since i painted.
- Try to wake up by 7 everyday ! sigh!
Tip : Speed read the book and focus on all the quotes and morals of the sub-stories :) Make a note of them and implement in 'moderation' :)lets see how it works for you after 21 days :)
