It is called "Man Alive! A Survival Manual for the Human Mind" by Greg Swann.
Now, you could argue that this is just a libertarian version of "The Secret" or something, but I don't think so. There's no "magic" or mystical thinking involved- just thinking. And acting on those thoughts.
I really dislike reading books on the computer, but on Sunni's recommendation I did it anyway. And I got a lot out of it. If you feel like reading it, I think you'll be glad you did.
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Oh, bless you. Thanks for the review. I actually like the analogy to The Secret. That's all mumbo-jumbo, of course, but it remains that your conscious thoughts are entirely yours to control. If you focus your mind solely on your values, and not on disvalues, your life will get better and better over time.
ReplyDeleteIf people are daunted by the idea of a full-blown book, I wrote a short summary of these ideas ten years ago as a speech:
http://splendorquest.com/?p=120
In every choice you make, in every action you
take, in each of your thoughts and in each of your
deeds, you are acting upon your self. By your
attitudes and your habits of mind and your
internal and external behaviors, you are acting
either to complete and burnish and exalt your ego
-- or to dismantle and deface and destroy it.
This is an inescapable ontological fact. This is
what it means _essentially_ to have a reasoning,
recollecting mind. Skyscrapers and symphonies, on
the one hand, and squalor and slaughter, on the
other -- these are secondary consequences. Every
action in every human life is first taken _by_ the
ego _upon_ the ego.
So do you want to worship your god, the only god
who can exist in the universe of your experience?
Then _be_ that god. Behave always, constantly, in
such a way that you will have earned and deserved
your own self-adoration. Act always to complete
your self and never to dismantle it, always to
burnish it and never to deface it, always to exalt
your ego and your body and your mind and your life
-- never to destroy it.
My thanks to you again.
You're welcome. And I thank you for taking the time to write the book to share what you have discovered.
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