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Create Your Magic Potion
"Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrow cultivates compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest" -Daisaku Ikeda This self-help book is an effort to understand the role of problems and sorrows in cultivating strength and achievements. Many soul-searching ideas and techniques are included in the book to help find faith, contentment, and inner peace. These practices are put across as a common person's experiences to deal with unexpected nerve-wracking situations, negative thoughts, and common stresses. Some of the exercises are very uncommon and quite childish, but they are magical! The short anecdotes and ideas in the book will help create your own magic potion, enjoy nature, enjoy conversations with God, appreciate what you have, put no comparison between you and others, work out positive results at home and workplace, love without conditions, understand things and situations wisely and act upon more wisely, pray for others and yourself, control your impulses, rely only on your actions and the Supreme Power, have positive pep talks and enjoy beautiful results of your own actions.
162 pages, Paperback
Published November 10, 2015
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February 4, 2017
Create your Magic Potion is a self-help book which (according to the preface) contains “layman’s ways to deal with everyday struggle in life as well as deeper and effective ways of dealing with crucial circumstances by following some self-generated tricks and tactics”.
That, besides pretty much covering the basics about what this book is all about, is also proof of some of the reasons I didn’t especially care for it. It’s too verbose and wordy, it sounds pompous at times (and, on the other hand, descends to emoticons at others), and it’s riddled with grammatical errors.
Over the course of twenty chapters, Deepika Tuli aims to explain hacks—easy and not—for facing life. From generating a positive outlook, to forgiving others, to accepting oneself, to helping others, it’s all here. A lot of it is spiritual; there’s a marked emphasis on believing in God, on prayer, and on constantly cultivating spirituality. Some of it is very practical (I especially liked one chapter on how to, in small but significant ways, help other people—the author provides some interesting and workable ideas here). Some of it is rather more difficult to manage; several of the ideas suggested, for example, assume that the reader lacks neither time nor resources. Some suggestions I found too simplistic (surfing the Net to look at photos of babies and cute animals is really not, I think, a long-term solution to being happier).
I will admit that I’m probably not the right audience for this book, because as I was reading through it, I kept thinking, “Is this something I didn’t know before? No.” But that probably has more to do with the fact that I’ve been through enough in life, and learnt a good deal along the way. I can, however, see how this might be of use to someone younger, less experienced in life, and looking for help.
That, besides pretty much covering the basics about what this book is all about, is also proof of some of the reasons I didn’t especially care for it. It’s too verbose and wordy, it sounds pompous at times (and, on the other hand, descends to emoticons at others), and it’s riddled with grammatical errors.
Over the course of twenty chapters, Deepika Tuli aims to explain hacks—easy and not—for facing life. From generating a positive outlook, to forgiving others, to accepting oneself, to helping others, it’s all here. A lot of it is spiritual; there’s a marked emphasis on believing in God, on prayer, and on constantly cultivating spirituality. Some of it is very practical (I especially liked one chapter on how to, in small but significant ways, help other people—the author provides some interesting and workable ideas here). Some of it is rather more difficult to manage; several of the ideas suggested, for example, assume that the reader lacks neither time nor resources. Some suggestions I found too simplistic (surfing the Net to look at photos of babies and cute animals is really not, I think, a long-term solution to being happier).
I will admit that I’m probably not the right audience for this book, because as I was reading through it, I kept thinking, “Is this something I didn’t know before? No.” But that probably has more to do with the fact that I’ve been through enough in life, and learnt a good deal along the way. I can, however, see how this might be of use to someone younger, less experienced in life, and looking for help.
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