Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages

by Wayne W. Dyer

Taped live, this powerful lecture shows how to use and apply ancient wisdom from a stunning variety of the greatest thinkers that our world has known -- including Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville, to name a few. "Don't die with your music still in you", Dr. Dyer urges, "if you want to achieve greatness".

Genres: Self Help

Audio Cassette

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Wayne Walter Dyer was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy, a Master’s degree in Psychology and an Ed.D. in Guidance and Counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high school guidance counselor, and went on to run a successful private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. John's University, where he was approached by a literary agent to put his ideas into book form. The result was his first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold. This launched Dyer's career as a motivational speaker and self-help author, during which he published 20 more best-selling books and produced a number of popular specials for PBS. Influenced by thinkers such as Abraham H. Maslow and Albert Ellis, Dyer's early work focused on psychological themes such as motivation, self actualization and assertiveness. By the 1990s, the focus of his work had shifted to spirituality. Inspired by Swami Muktananda and New Thought, he promoted themes such as the "power of intention," collaborated with alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra on a number of projects, and was a frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audiobook

One of the things mentioned:
- stop chasing your tail
- when doing presentation: be authentic and be enthusiastic


6 mistakes mankind make---

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
-Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
-Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
-Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
-Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
-Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
-Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

By Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Heidi Wiechert · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some solid motivational philosophies to be had from this lecture. However, I don't feel that this is Dr. Dyer's best work. He covers a bunch of different historical figures rather than focusing on one or two. I think that a more in-depth discussion about a few of his favorites would have been more enlightening than skimming over a bunch. As always though, he fills his lectures with humor and warmth that few other speakers can match. If you're already a fan of Dr. Dyer, you'll probably enjoy this. If not, I'd recommend that you listen to Jim Rohn instead.