The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom book review
The four agreements audiobook Trivial introduction to New Age ethics with lots of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's stale third-rate scraps, all written for third-grade reading comprehension. Since the first convention is "be blameless with your word", it is ironic and even more horrifying that the words in this book are so lazy, careless, contradictory, childish, incoherent and lacking in integrity. Miguel Ruiz thinks that the ideal person, listen to this, is a small child: If we see a child of two or three, maybe four, we find a free person. Why is this man free? Because this man does what he wants to do. Man is completely wild. Like a flower, a tree or an animal that is not domesticated, wild! Oh yeah. That human being is also completely lost if for some reason he can't keep doing what he wants, and if you leave him in the woods, like an untamed flower, tree or animal, he would. die, like, pretty soon, unless it was, you know, adopted by wolves. In that case it would be useless as a human being. There's a reason people call the period between 24 and 36 months "the terrible two." If you think about it, a small child is actually "a living being that lives on other living things, sucks up their energy without any useful contribution in return, and hurts its host little by little." Or at least that's what little kids would be if they didn't stop being little kids. And that is by the way Don Miguel Ruiz's own definition of a parasite, but it is too heavy to realize. (And if you're inclined to protest that it's hard to describe young children as creatures that suck energy from their hosts without returning a useful contribution, Google says my son is crying.) In any case, the idealization of the children explains the infantile syntax and diction, the crudeness of the examples. This shower head actually writes: An example: I see a friend and I give him an opinion that just occurred to me. I say, "Hmmm! I see the kind of color in your face in people who are going to get cancer." If you hear the word and agree with it, you will have cancer within a year.
How do you know that? Have you really tried it? Are you such a horrible person that you would tell a friend that you look like someone who is going to get cancer? I have a family member with severe OCD related to medical problems. This person has long believed that they will get cancer, but they are still cancer free because it turns out that just believing is not enough to give someone cancer anyway.
People are constantly told, "Don't smoke! Smoking will give you cancer!" And they say, "Meh. That'll happen to someone else. It won't happen to me." The reason people got cancer from smoking in the first place isn't that they were told they would get it in a year; is that smoking causes cancer. Damn DUH.
The four agreements pdf This book is so devoid of integrity that it even manages to make Hitler trivial and trivial in a way that even the most egregious example of Godwin's law on the internet could not. Seriously: Take the example of Hitler. He sent out all those seeds of fear, and they became very strong and miraculously (sic) accomplished mass destruction. When we see the amazing power of the word, we must understand the power that comes out of our mouths.
The mind turns. Hitler didn't just "send all those seeds of fear", and his rhetoric alone is not responsible for the "mass destruction" he achieved so "beautifully" (?!). It invaded more than twenty countries, including Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Soviet Union, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia.
He established extermination camps and systematically murdered six million Jews and is also responsible for the murder of another ten million people, including Poles, Russians, gypsies, people with disabilities, communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and Germans rode. rode. To describe genocide and so much deliberate cruelty in hackneyed terms like “seeds of fear” that “beautifully accomplished mass destruction” is despicable and something any savvy reader should object to. The book manages to downplay evil in ways even Hannah Arendt couldn't have predicted. Nevertheless.
Guess what will fix everything? TALK MORE! SPEAK BETTER!: "All human problems would be solved if we had clear and good communication." Besides knowing who stood out in clear communication? Hitler And do you know who the hell hates good and clear communication? You know too, Miguel Ruiz? 'A child of two or three, maybe.
The Four Agreements©, was published in 1997 and has sold around 10 million copies. It has been on the New York Times Bestselling list for almost a decade. Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves.
Introduction
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.