Khi gặp khó khăn hay không vừa lòng với một chuyện gì đó, đầu tiên bạn sẽ làm gì? Tôi dám cá rằng, đến 80% độc giả sẽ trả lời là than thở với ai đó. Chuyện đó chẳng có gì bất hợp pháp cả, đơn giản chỉ là bạn muốn trút sạch những chuyện đen đủi đi và cầu cứu một sự cảm thông. Nhưng đã bao giờ bạn nghĩ đến cảm xúc của người "hứng" những than thở cho bạn chưa? Tôi cam đoan là nó chẳng có gì vui vẻ, trừ khi người đó là đối thủ của bạn. Điều quan trọng hơn là những lời than thở, phàn nàn đó lại là những kẻ "phản chủ", nhất là khi than thở đã trở thành một thói quen. Nói càng nhiều về những điều bạn chưa hài lòng, bạn càng cảm thấy cuộc sống này thật chán nản và buồn tẻ, đó cũng là bạn nhấn mình trong cái nhìn bi quan và đẩy mình ra xa khỏi hội những người hạnh phúc. Vậy bạn cứ tiếp tục phàn nàn, than thở hay chọn một con đường thay đổi hiện tại. Chẳng ai có thể giúp bạn cả, vì có thể họ đang cố gắng cải thiện mình bằng cách tránh xa những người như bạn. Cuốn sách nhỏ bạn đang cầm trên tay sẽ phân tích và chỉ ra 10 điều mà bạn đáng được nhận nếu thoát khỏi những ý nghĩ tiêu cực trong cuộc sống và tạo động lực để bạn chữa trị căn bệnh "thâm niên" này.
A short book. If you have no important work in hand, then read this small one quickly. At least reading something is always better than mindless swapping and screen gazing.
يمتلك الفائزون قناعات وسلوكيات محدده تمدهم بالقوة اللازمه و النتائج التي يحصلون عليها ما هي الا انعكاسات للخيارات التي يتخدونها ولكن ما تقدمه لنا الحياه يفوق ما يمكن لاي منا ان يراه بمفرده لدى من خلال ممارسة رؤيا الحياه من عدة زوايا سيمكنك ان تتغير لتصبح شخصا افضل و تذكر ان العزيمه والاصرار هما القوه التي تدفعك الى المثابره.
عليك ان تتعلم ان تستمتع بموقفك الحالي وان تواصل الاجتهاد ولكن لا تجعل سعادتك تتوقف على الانجاز فنحن نشعر بالسعاده حينما نصبح افضل ما بوسعنا ان نكونه وان الرغبات قادره على ان تقود البشر للجنون فمن المهم ان تتعلم كيف نفرق بين ما نرغب فيه وما نحتاج اليه حقا وما تعتقد انه قد يجعلك سعيدا و ان ما تقدمه لنا الحياه يفوق ما يمكن لاي منا ان يراه بفرده اذن فمن خلال ممارسة رؤيا الحياه من عدة زوايا سيمكنك ان تتغير لتصبح افضل.
Sept 2011 - Good book by Keith Cameron Smith. Simple and to the point regarding winning vs. whinning attitudes. My favorite quote was the 20-40-60 principle. "When you are 20 years old, you care what everyone thinks of you. When you are 40, you dont' care what anyone thinks. At 60, you finally realize that nobody was thinking about you at all." Chapters include: Winners take responsibility / Whiners play victim. Winners can have what they want / Whiners want what they cannot have Winners find a way / Whiners find an excuse. Winners brighten a room by entering / Whiners brighen a room by leaving Winners listen twice as much as they talk / Whiners talk twice as much as they listen Winners enjoy life's journeys/ Whiners put their joy in the destinations. Winners build friendships / Whiners destroy friendships Winners think big / Whiners think small Winners are focus-minded / Whiners are scannterbrained Winners crate positive meanings / Whiners create negaive meanings.
I felt I needed to skip read the rest of this book because after awhile it feels as though it's repeating itself. I like what I've learned from it, but I feel I don't really need to finish it to know what it's all about. It's pretty clear even a quarter in.
It's a pretty good self-help book but at times I felt that there was a bit of preaching going on (mostly when the God issue was used as an example). I don't mind God being used as example, per se, but after a few mentions of how if you become enough of a winner you might even be able to communicate with Him, it started to feel a little like proselytizing. Not much, and that wasn't the reason why I put the book down, it's mostly just an observation.
Imagine someone spent a while gathering every platitude and piece of wisdom they could find and then gathered it into a book about being a winner. This is what you'd get - a mixed bag. Some insights were helpful, others were too simplistic, and a few were actually insulting.
If you deal with complex problems (disabilities, psychological problems, stuff that you can't change with your attitude), you might find this amazingly simplistic and not all that helpful. Most of the advice is do-it-yourself - just change your attitude or your way of thinking or something simple and then WHAM! your life will be better.
A book with good content, but a better page layout with more intuitive line breaks, subheadings, etc. would have given it more character, made it more enjoyable to read, and made the information easier to retain. I found myself re-reading many sections of the book because the author jumps from Winner to Whiner and back again with great frequency. If this book had a better editor and page designer, I would have given it 4-stars. It's a quick read at a slim 93 pages, so it's worth a read (even if you have to re-read a few lines in order to make certain you comprehended a passage correctly.)
Good points but a lot of generalizations without enough examples to clarify; though most of the points are pretty straight-foward. The read cheered me up a lot after having a rough few weeks with inner struggles.