REVIEW: "I refuse to choose" by Barbara Sher - book about the journey to the true "I"

Yes, I'm a typical scanner. Now you can honestly afford to admit and stop stuffing their versatile nature in the square-socket box "normal life."

Over the past 10 years I have tried myself in two dozen professions: counselors, merchandiser, political consultant, journalist, marketer, organizer of training, fitness trainer, sales manager, editor, director of web development. And that's not counting the dozens of hobbies, read hundreds booksConstant craving for development and learning something new.

For 28 years this whole merry carousel began to tire. Looking at their less active peers, I began to notice that during the years of silent sitting in one place they were a family, children, apartment, car... And I still continued to flit colorful butterfly in search themselves.

Book by Barbara Sher, "I refuse to choose," came to me at the moment of spiritual crisis.

One phrase gave me the hope that my lifestyle is not the fruit of a total lack of discipline, and has the real implications and with this you can do something about it.

Chances are good that you have a special type of thinking characteristic of the people I call scanners. You are genetically different from those who once and for all finds its area of ​​interest and content to one area of ​​activity. You are attracted at the same time a lot of different matters, and you are trying to fill their life.

This is not exactly a typical book. It is given a fundamentally new system.

• First, the rehabilitation program, whose purpose - to eliminate the damage caused by your lack of understanding over the years, and repair your badly tattered self-esteem.
• Second, special training - you should learn how to make better use of their unique innate abilities.
• Third, the professional device issues. Scanners, like everyone else, have to make, and the book will orient how to find a job where you will not get bored and to provide itself with the means to live, which seeks to maintain.

The most valuable thing in the whole book - a practical techniques and exercises that will help you organize the chaos in my life. They are simple and clear, it is a mixture of so my favorite writing practice, creative experimentation and self-discovery. Barbara does not teach us how to live, the book is not a word that you need to drive themselves into the framework of rigid discipline, become a normal and function properly. It invites us to go after him to journey to his true "I".

I was struck by the story of Pamela, whose letter was published in the book:

Hi, my name is Pamela, I'm forty-two, the first time I read your books, when I was twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

Since then I have had a lot: traveled to Greenland, spent a year in Alaska, whale watching in the wild, track UFOs for the US Air Force, engaged different business, bought and sold a couple of houses, hunt for a ghost in an English castle, wondering on the Tarot psychics at fairs, carried out on a small dead loop speed aircraft designed your current home and participated in its construction, he has grown in his garden about ten thousand different colors, worked in the tattoo parlor, has become a drummer in a rock band (by the way, we have already released two CDs and write third!); grew dwarf pinscher, was certified expert on Feng Shui, read the nine million books, tied to the spokes whole miniature village - a Christmas gift to mum, independently master database programming, has led tours at the zoo in Atlanta, there was a huge amount of your books to those who dared to say: "I can not either one or the this. " More help mom get through and survive treatment for cancer... three times! And any other that now can not remember.

In short, I am usually bored housewife (ha!). Now I live in Alabama, I land in a hundred and sixty acres - in the wilderness, far away from any habitation (stop laughing!), And I sit and I think, for me to take that next? In general, this is the whole, I... well, part of me.

This story touched me deeply. Through this book, I suddenly believed that everything is fine with me. There is no point endlessly to redraw itself. Much more interesting to explore their strengths and discover their world. That's what creates the most interesting projects, realized dreams.

The book is very easy to read, literally in one breath. But, in my opinion, it makes sense to savor the long winter evenings, as a glass of spicy mulled wine. It revealed gradually, layer by layer, the sense of meaning. Begins to acquire the volume in everyday affairs, texture and density of the words in his mind. Living with it changes gradually, becomes more relaxed, and comes out melteshenie state flow. And there is going and created a much more productive than in the usual chaos of ideas, projects and businesses.

"I refuse to choose," Barbara Sher

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