REVIEW: "Find yourself. How to go beyond stereotypes and to find their way, "Bob Deutsch

Live bright life, making the most of their potential and embodying its true essence. Who does not want that? The author of this book says, he knows how to do it. At least he has a hypothesis on this subject. Bob Deutsch believes that find their way through the possible disclosure of the five internal resources. On them and on the book as a whole will be discussed further.

To feel on top of the world, not necessarily to conquer it, you just find a way to itself.

Bob Deutsch

Anthropologist, he defended his thesis in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Founder of Brain Sells. Many years studying human behavior. His clients include American Express, Apple, Johnson & Johnson and many other companies.

Deutsch's idea that changes in life start with a change within himself. For the latter, there are five resources, five bars being.

Curiosity

What distinguishes the child from an adult? In my opinion, the most obvious difference - curiosity.

Adults - when it incurious.

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Many people think they know enough. They are comfortable with the mental baggage that they have accumulated in their 30, 40, 50... years. So most people almost do not show curiosity.

But curious receive from life much more. For them, every day - it's a myriad of possibilities. According to Bob Deutsch, based on curiosity - love to learn. It's not about education, and the desire to learn more, to learn new things. Curious people all the time ask yourself, "What next?" - and thus expanding the boundaries of the way.

openness

"To be curious - then tickle the mind and develop through contact with the new, then be open - to give an unexpected opportunity to influence the course of your life."

This is the second resource that helps to find himself. Openness means that you do not seek to know the result at the beginning of the way, are you ready to be surprised and take turns of fate. "If you allow yourself to be open to different results and different steps on the way to him, the horizons are expanding." Openness allows you to create things that you would never have created a blinkered consciousness.

Sensitivity

Sensitivity - the feeling of experience of their own experience.

The author calls a sense of the third resource, leading to a true "I" and colorful life. Hearing and seeing people often deaf and blind to themselves. For example, the nervous, the man begins to speak too fast. But instead to understand what feelings catalyze this behavior, he simply tries to overcome this "disadvantage".

Actively use sensitivity - so inevitably feel more unpleasant. But without that, alas, you can not find yourself.

paradoxicalness

Life - a piece contradictory. Sometimes what we think, we do not want is exactly what we need most.

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The fourth resource - it is an opportunity to look at the world differently. "If you're used to seeing something with one hand, take a look at it from the opposite point of view is to add to your approach nuance and depth." This will help you to go beyond the usual and be creative. According to Deutsch, the paradox - this is not a problem that should be solved. This is an opportunity to become real!

Samoistoriya

Previous four resources are the fifth and the chief. Deutsch calls it samoistoriey.

Samoistoriya - the only thing that is necessary for a life of self-motivation and improvement, and to be happy. It is more important than money, backgrounds and abilities.

The author particularly emphasizes that samoistoriya ≠ biography. This is what activates your own "I". Entirely - beauty and flaws, light and dark sides. That is why human samoistoriya not always attractive. But if you realize what is its essence, you can manage it, finding a productive use of disadvantages.

These five resources are implemented in five processes. To find himself and to live a bright life, you need to:

• constantly go home (curiosity);
• master his narrative (openness);
• stop and focus (sensitivity);
• improvise (paradoxical);
• breathe life (samoistoriya).

How to transform the internal resources in these processes, in the second part of the book Bob Deutsch.

My references

Deep kind that besets. If you would take a book to describe Bob Deutsch's three words, I would choose these.

Deep, complex because it affects, sometimes philosophical themes. Who am I? What is my place in this world? Do I live? What is my mission? These questions permeate the entire work. Self-knowledge - a complicated process, but thanks to this book becomes a step closer to understanding the essence.

The author manages to write about the most complex simple. Perhaps this is the merit of the selected format. The book consists of dozens of stories of real people. Bob Deutsch many years studying the behavior of famous and not so famous people, it is no wonder that he has accumulated a lot of examples. He gently weaves them into a story. Through this scientific maxims come to life and become human. And it is impossible not to notice the warmth and respect with which the author tells the stories of these people. This makes the book really good.

Stirs in her motivation. After reading will certainly want to understand your narrative, I want to work on themselves, do samoistoriyu ...

The only thing a little tired - the abundance of foreign names (even though one of the heroes of the book - Boris Yeltsin), a large number of references to Western culture. But, after all, is not a reason to train your curiosity? ;)

"Find yourself. How to go beyond the stereotypes and find their way "
Bob Deutsch

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