fyevibesperiod6 discussion

1. Update pages and include an impacting passage that lets others know more about the book is. Explain it!
2. How does this book relate to emotional intelligence (all five domains)?
3. In your opinion, who should read this book? Why?
4. What have been three important lessons you have learned from this book?

1. "If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's angle as well as from your own." In order to be good at making friends or doing anything you have to be able to put yourself in another person's shoes and also consider your own point of view. That's the easiest way to influence a person.
2. It mainly talks about being nice to people when you know you need something from them. It also talks about speaking to people about their needs and wants because they don't want to hear about anyone else- social awareness. It also talks about how you should try not to criticize people and try to show sincere appreciation to other people- self management.
3. People who are looking to have a better understanding of how to handle other people or people who just want to learn how to make friends.
4. When you talking to someone talk about them and what they want in order to get what you want out of the situation. Instead of criticizing a person point out things they did well so they don't feel the need to justify their wrong doings. Last, is to give honest appreciation to people and not to butter them up with lies.

1.An impacting passage for me was "They could use their learning in a new context. Because their knowledge was part of a richer system of thought,their knowledge was more flexible" this passage lets others know how the book lets you be flexible with your mind and helps you adjust it to ways where you aren't arguing with whoever is teaching and you use the tools you have to improvise and get though and still learn.
2.This book relates to emotional intelligence because it explains how to improvise and strengthen your learning skills.It teaches you how to improvise your self-management by giving you skills to learn and use skills on how to be a more successful student.It supports self-awareness by letting you configure and realize what are your flaws and how to improve on them.For self-motivation it teaches you how to look up to learning and ways to learn "your way" and also gives you tools in the mind to help the process.In Chapter 5 it shows you how to relate to other people in this learning process which is an example of social-awareness.It tries to demonstrate how we can ask question like how are things similar?how are things different?and ho are they comparable?These questions are the basis to how we can be aware of other people's abilities and still learn efficiently.
3.This book is perfect for someone who lacks in seeing learning as beneficial because it introduces new ways to see learning in new perspectives and can be found in the middle school all the way through college age range.
4. a)The first lesson I've learned is to try to see learning as a learning process as well because it can always change on how you take things.Second lesson is that there is always second chances and always room to improve on what your slacking on.Lastly you can always have space to extend your thinking.

1. "The enemy doesn't want us to see the glory that we are granted simply because we are God's creation. He does everything he can, and always has, to make us not see the beauty of who we are as unique individuals-how much God delights in how we look, how we talk, how we laugh, how we see the world." Erica Campbell is talking about how we listen to the lies that others throw at us but how we should listen to what god and the Bible has to say about us instead. 2. Self Awareness- She stops and she identifies when she is mad or is overwhelmed and she (Self Management)takes a step back to calm down and she talks to God and fixes her attitude. Self Motivation- even when she is feeling down or tired she still gets back up and she does what needs to be done. When she is tired and she still has a show to do she draws on her inner strength and God's reassurance for motivation.Social Awareness- She is aware of the struggles people have to deal with in this age and time and she gives advice to those people.Relationship Management- When her ego got to big she fired her manager but then she saw her mistake(Self Awareness) and she mended her relationship with her manager.
3. I my opinion someone who is religious and wants to grow their understanding of god and grow their relationship with him should read this book. Campbell talks about how to grow in your relationship and how much God loves you.
4. The first important lesson i have learned is that you can't let negativity get to you. The second lesson I have learned is that most times you only see what others want you to see and you don't always get to see the person underneath. The third lesson I have learned is that it is easy to lose yourself in the world butthat you can't let it get to you.

1) An impacting passage from my book is: "Picture this scene-you're playing chess and it's your turn to move. Yo move your hand over the chessboard and rest your finger on a chess piece, indicating you intend to move that piece. You then notice your opponent sit back and make the 'Steeple' gesture. Your opponent has just told you, nonverbally, that he feels confident about your next move so your best strategy is to not make it. You next touch another chess piece and see your opponent assume the 'Hands-Clenched' gesture or the 'Arms-Crossed' position, signaling that he doesn't like your potential move-so you should make it."
This passage is impactful because it shows how this book can be used in real life. Of course, there are other events in the book that prove how you can take what you learned and apply it to your life, but this example shows that these body language signs are not just used in meetings or introducing yourself. They are used in everyday life, even if you don't notice them at all. It is important to train yourself to spot these gestures, because they can give you clues as to how the other person is thinking. Almost every time, you don't even notice these gestures, but train yourself to notice them and they will help you a lot, even when you don't expect them too.
2) This book relates to the emotional intelligence domains in multiple examples. Self-Awareness: Be aware of your own body language so you can use it to influence others' thoughts or actions. Self-Management: Crossing your arms in front of your body to create a barrier is an example of self management because he is keeping his front protected. Self-Motivation: You can use body language on yourself to convince your brain that everything is OK. Social Awareness: If you are aware of the other person's culture/heritage, you can determine what type of body language you should be using. Relationship Management: Be aware of others' body language so you can adapt to how they are feeling.
3) I think that people who either struggle in reading body language or want to improve themselves should read this book. If you have a hard time reading others and what they might be thinking, this could be the book for you. If your body language skills are just fine but you still want to improve your ability to read others, that is just fine too! You will learn something either way.
4) Three important lessons I have learned from this book are: a. A person's cultural background should be recognized before initiating in conversation with them to avoid being embarrassed. b. Body language signs should not be taken out of context (for example, if a person is rubbing their hands together outside in the winter, they are not showing positive expectancy-they are just cold and warming up their hands). c. Body language signals can be difficult to learn, but if you take the time to do so, you will have better control of your own thoughts, be able to read others' emotions, and be able to win more chess games.
The Definitive Book of Body Language

1. So far, I still love this book. I'm only 45 pages in, and I have a lot of reading to do, but it has already been very interesting. One of the passages that encompasses the book well is in a section about compassion. "Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden us into resistance." It explains how we have to let ourselves be vulnerable in order to feel compassion and empathy.

2. Self-Management: In chapter 2, there was a section on how humans will sometimes forget their self management, and push their own experiences onto others. We sometimes forget that other people can do things themselves.
Self-Awareness: In the portion of the book that includes examples of shame from different women's lives, they were all mostly aware of that they did in the situation. The woman who was ashamed of her son was aware of how horribly their family was treating him.
Social-Awareness: There was another story about a woman who's mother hung herself, and the people in her community were not aware of the effects that their reactions were having on her, or her family. They were only focused on the story, and not the people involved.
Relationship Management: During the chapter on shame, It explains how our relationship management is a large part of how we feel shame. If we manage our connections badly, it is more likely that we will feel shame.

3. Anyone who blames themselves for situations, or feels like they deserve punishment for something. And, anyone who is looking to improve on handling how they deal with shame.

4. So far, the three main lessons i have learned are:
a. shame, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment are all different, and connect to different scenarios. They're used interchangeably, but shouldn't be.
b. Power is not the ability to control others, rather the ability to act or produce an effect.
c. True compassion can be learned, and practiced, and it goes hand in hand with empathy.

Amani wrote: "1. "If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's angle as well as from your own." In order to be good at making friends or doing anythi..."

For 2--can you be more specific? What are some of those 'tools' or strategies for each of the domains?

1. An impacting passage is, "Imagination is a source of fear, but may also be the cure of fear. 'Imagineering' is the use of mental images to build factual results, and it is an astonishingly effective procedure. Imagination is not simply the use of fancy. The word imagination derives from the idea of imaging. That is to say, you form an image either of fear or of release of fear." This means that we can use our imagination to get rid of fears and worries. It means that we don't have to use our imagination to make us more fearful and worried, but that we can use it to counter our fears and worries.
2. a. This book relates to self-awareness by showing us how to be self-confident, which can make you more self aware.
b. Self-management relates to this book by the author teaching us ways to soothe ourselves and stay positive.
c. This book relates to self-motivation by showing us things that we can say to ourselves to motivate ourselves to do something.
d. This book relates to social awareness by showing different situations in which the author or someone the author is speaking about in a story noticed that something was wrong with someone do to physical cues and was able to help that person and fix the problem.
e. This book relates to relationship management by showing different stories in which the author shows different things he did with people that can help show that the author cares for that person, helping to build his relationship with them. For example, in one story, the author asked if he could pray with a friend. This can show the friend how much he cares for them and make their relationship stronger.
3. People who are Christians and believe in God should read this book, because this book uses many verses from the Bible and is easier to relate to as a Christian.
4. a. In order to get the best and be successful, you have to believe that you can get the best.
b. You can have constant energy by having positive emotions and not rushing through things (slowing down your pace in life so that you are more relaxed).
c. We need to stop "fuming and fretting" (being angry and complaining all the time) so we don't waste energy and stay relaxed. This can be done by doing things that calm us down and make us happy.

Sophia wrote: "1. "The enemy doesn't want us to see the glory that we are granted simply because we are God's creation. He does everything he can, and always has, to make us not see the beauty of who we are as un..."
1. why is the quote impacting?
2. how does it help grow the spiritual relationship?

An impacting passage is, "ordinary unconsciousness is always linked in some way with denial of the Now. The Now, of course, also implies the here. Are you resisting your here and now. Some people would always rather be somewhere else. Their 'here' is never good enough." I find this impacting because it is true. People in society are always hoping on the future and never live in the present moment. This passage basically explains an example of what ordinary unconsciousness is. The text also talks about how complaining is just the nonacceptance of what is. It carries and unconscious negative charge. This book is mainly all about self awareness. It gives you the spiritual guide to becoming aware of the thing that go on inside you. The book gives you reasons as to why you think the way you do and how to fix it. Also, there is self management in this book as well. If you can not control your own thoughts and mind then you have no self management. Even more, the book says when you are unhappy it spreads more easily than a physical disease. That negativity will be fed into others which effects your relationship management. The book also says that if your conscious is low and you can't be present in an normal circumstance when you are listening to someone then you won't be conscious when something goes wrong. I say that to imply that if you can't even be present when someone is talking to you and listen then you have no social awareness. The type of person that should read this book should be someone who doesn't really understand why they are the way they are. What i mean by that is if someone is confused as to of why they overthink things or why they are always unhappy they should read this. If someone who is typically always unhappy within, this book will help give a guide to reach Being. Also, negative people should read this book because it explains what negativity really is. Three important lessons i have learned is that you should live in the moment and not dwell, problems are mind made, and that guilt, regret, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past.

Matthew wrote: "1) An impacting passage from my book is: "Picture this scene-you're playing chess and it's your turn to move. Yo move your hand over the chessboard and rest your finger on a chess piece, indicating..."

Very specific! I got a lot out of your post without having to read the book!! wowzers!

1)"We know how to eat healthy.We also know how to make good choices with our money.We know how to take care of our emotional needs.We know all of this yet.... we are the most obese, medicated, addicted and in debt american's ever." We know about all of these things and we know how to take care of them but were struggling like never before. The reason is because we dont talk about the things that get in the way of doing what we know is best for us.

2) You have to know your own story and understand your own experience to discover who you are and to establish YOUR voice. We pretend that things are fine and try to focus on others and that regulates ourselves or we freeze up for awhile and take in experiences that happen to regulate ourselves. People who are close to us and deserve to hear our story help boost our motivation and connection with those people boost our motivation and that its harder to walk through our story alone and talking about it to just anyone rather than talking about it to someone who we deeply trust. Most social awareness comes visually and that isn't a bad thing but we can't judge people from just their appearance so we have to befriend those who we socially judge. If we don't talk about our problems they will never be solved so opening up and talking about your close peers allows us to let go of keeping our story a secret, and trying to hide our stories by putting on fake emotions is the way we destroy the relationships we have.

3)My opinion on this book is that it digs deep into me and reminds me of who i am and how i can let my story be known. People who have lost themselves should read this book because it reminded me of who truly am.

4) One important lesson i have learned is that there's types of friends who are just there to up-size you or feed off of your true self because they are in need of help and rather bring you down with them instead of going down themselves. A second lesson i learned is that shame is something that is very hard to concur in my book it states "shame is often referred to as the swampland of the soul" the book also says "the swampland is an important place to visit but you shouldn't stay there." You don't want to live off of your shame you want to walk through i and make it our the other side. The third lesson i learned is that society and our peers keep us afloat in the world and they feed off of our strengths and we feed off of theirs this is what the book calls connection. We are all connected through this energy loop that feeds off of each other and that were hardwired for connection and our relationships shape our biology and experiences.

"We don't always control what happens to us.But we always control how we interpret what happens to us,as well as how we respond".This book is always trying to get to actsped thing in your weather it be about control or how your values effect you. and this is some thing I need to work on.

Well the hole book is about acsspteding things about you like for example like how you emotion are they effect you in relationships. For relationship management it tell you a lot of story about how people values effect what they do in relationships. Next is social awareness it tell you a story about Buddha and hoe he realized that life was a form of suffering and how we all suffer.For self-motivation it tells you about how this man never give up being a writer and keep trying.For self-management he talk about how all need to know are emotions so we as people can handle them and not fall apart.

A person that should read this book is someone who like being toll as is what it is and can stand the bad words.Why because the book is full of this stuff.

How you should care only about the important thing in life.
How we can all control are life though how we react to thing.
We suffer because of are values but you can change them.

1. An impacting passage is, "The real you is still a little child who never grew up." To elaborate, deep down we are all still just children who have fun and try to enjoy our lives. However, we cover ourselves up in fear of rejection and cover up the little child inside of us callously.
2. My book, The Four Agreements, relates to self-awareness because we cover up our emotions. The passage, "When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you," is signifying how we loose our self awareness when we don't put enough effort in. The book relates to self-regulation with the passage, "Taking a shower is a ritual for me, and with that action I will tell my body how much I love it." By taking a shower, he let's himself know how much he appreciates himself. This book relates to self-motivation with the passage, "You know you're doing you best when you are enjoying the action..." Meaning, enjoying the activity is the self-motivation to get it done. The book relates to social-awareness with the passage, "We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse." Basically, the author says how we have a lack of social awareness with these assumptions. The book relates to relationship management with the passage, "For years we have received the gossip and spells from the words of others..." We manage others by spreading gossip about each other.
3. Someone who want's to change the way they live should read this book. This book discusses how being impeccable with your words, not taking anything personally, not making assumptions, and trying your best can change their life for the better. By following these agreements, they are letting go of their once controlled life.
4. One important lesson I learned from this book is how making assumptions can actually destroy relationships instead of trying to fix them. When we assume what's going on, we create more drama and cause a lot of disagreements among each other. Another lesson I learned was that, by not doing our best, we feel guilty and grow more self-hatred for ourselves. We know that we could have done better, and because of that we now hold a lot more regrets. The last lesson I learned was that if we break old agreements and consent to the new ones, we will actually live a healthier and happier life. We will, at last, be free and break past the chains that kept us grounded to the belief that we must follow the old agreements that caused so much guilt and sadness in our life.

1.) "Dreams are the underlying purpose. They're what fuels the hard work, passion, and effort, and what drives us to keep going long after we should would, or could have quit." The book is about how to be successful in your own perspective. The author talks about how to first be successful you have to have a goal. And goals start with dreams. This impacted me because it helped me realize that having dreams, even unrealistic ones, are important to my success.

2.) This book relates to self-assessment because in the first chapter it talked about you v.s your persona. In that chapter, it has you take a moment and think about who you truly are, not the person you created for the world to view. Self- motivation shows up when Cahill is talking about success. He went through a hard time in his life where he dropped out of college because he didn't accomplish what he wanted. In that chapter, he talked about how you have to remain in motion and be resilient to become successful. That also related to self-management. To take care of yourself, you have to be proud of yourself, and that comes from being proud of your achievements. Knowing your small successes but not stopping. Cahill also spoke about how he was invited to give a speech at a national convention. At first, he was going to write about his achievements, his successes. But he was aware of how the students he spoke to would feel, and he decided to talk about his true story. Lastly, relationship management is shown in this book when he asked his readers to share five unique things about themselves. This increases the bond between people and creates a way for people to connect on their similar faults.

3.)I think people who have trouble accepting themselves for their mistakes should read this. The book starts off by explaining why you should be truthful about yourself, stop hiding behind a persona. And as you read on, it only adds to that. Accepting yourself, your success, and your dreams are the most important things to becoming successful. When you can be yourself, you can grow as yourself.

4.) Three important lessons that I've learned from this book are that to be successful you can't stop at one achievement, hiding behind a false persona can stump your growth, and it is important that you keep dreaming and moving forward with your dreams.

1. This quote is impacting because it is giving encouragement and some people need to be encouraged.
2. It helps you grow spiritually because someone might learn something they didn't previously know and they may learn and grow

1. An impacting passage from "Rewire Your Mind" is "Failure, and the pain that follows, is a natural part of being human. Everyone you look up to has failed during their lifetime. Everyone makes mistakes." My book focuses on self-acceptance and being aware that not being in control occasionally is okay. Steven assumes that his audience are over thinkers and he breaks down in each chapter how to stop overthinking and live life to the fullest.

2. "Rewire Your Mind" solely focuses on being self aware that mistakes are okay. Readers who overthink often and don't know how to handle/stop it can be provided with self management and self awareness tips and tricks. Furthermore, we are given examples of relationship management with examples of how to talk to others and do it in a non-over thinker way- where you are able to manage your mind instead of letting it manage you. Self motivation is demonstrated with examples of what to say to yourself when you want to improve and avoid irrelevant and negative thoughts. Lastly, social awareness is demonstrated because Steven writes things like "People sometimes like things to be complicated." Steven is aware of the type of people who are reading his book and he tries to cater to them.

3. Over thinkers, People who worry a lot, and people with negative mindsets should read this book. People who want to have a peaceful mind that they control should also read this. "Rewire Your Mind" revolves around avoiding overthinking and negative thoughts, mental clutter, and worrying about the future. Hence the title, Steven wants to give his audience a more positive way of thinking that will benefit them.

4. Three important lessons I've learned from "Rewire Your Mind" are 1. overthinking can take a toll on me and the people around me, 2. mental clutter only makes things worse, and 3. social media can increase worrying and a clutter mind. Avoiding overthinking and having self motivated thoughts can improve stress levels and relationships with others. Mental clutter can be caused by social media and stress (everything is related).

Amani wrote: "1. "If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's angle as well as from your own." In order to be good at making friends or doing anythi..."

I like the quote that we should get the other person's angle along with our own. I think that we should step into each others shoes and see how they view life in order to fully understand how they feel about the situation before we make any assumptions.

Milo wrote: "1. So far, I still love this book. I'm only 45 pages in, and I have a lot of reading to do, but it has already been very interesting. One of the passages that encompasses the book well is in a sect..."

Can you be more specific about audience? Age range? Specific values they hold?

Milo wrote: "1. So far, I still love this book. I'm only 45 pages in, and I have a lot of reading to do, but it has already been very interesting. One of the passages that encompasses the book well is in a sect..." Im still in the begenning of my book an it is also ery good, both of our books talk a lot about shame and how to handle it and i think both of our books are made by Brene brown?

1. One impacting passage that will allow others to to know the book better is when Erica says " when you know what you believe, what makes you special, and how you're called, something inside you comes alive. This is impacting because at this point in my life, i am trying to find myself. As i'm doing that i'm also introduced to other things that can alter or impact my opinion of myself. I felt like when she put these words in the book, she was speaking directly to me because shes saying that once i find myself something in me will spark and i can finally allow my light to properly shine.
2. as far as Self-Awareness, she talks about how when shes feels a certain way, she is able to detect it and she walks away before something bad can happen. As i look for Self-Management, I realize Erica talks about how to manage her feelings, and how to be able to ignore the negativity. For self-Motivation, Erica talks about how the positive feedback and kind words from others help her to tell herself 'you have to keep going. you bless people through your craft.' For social-awareness, Erica talks about how she is able to detect when something is wrong not only in her household, but she can tell when someone is putting on a happy face, because shes been there before. Last but not least, Erica uses the fact that when her and her husband go through it, or even her and her kids, they are able to express their feelings and go back to how they were.
3. Someone i think should read this book is someone who one, lacks self confidence and is focused on trying to fit in, and two, someone who wants to get closer to god. I say this because throughout the book, Erica makes points on the concept of 'pretty', she touches on times in her life where she felt the need to fit in, and she includes many bible scriptures that relate to her topic and relates to how god must feel about us judging something he created and thought was perfect.
4. One lesson i've learned is that the way you look is the way god created you to look, he made you and you are perfect in his eyes. another lesson ive learned is to get to know myself before trying to be so hard and judging, because once i get to know myself, ill look at myself with a better perspective. Lastly, ive learned to surround myself around people that will not only uplift me, but will keep me on the right track.

Missy wrote: "1. An impacting passage from "Rewire Your Mind" is "Failure, and the pain that follows, is a natural part of being human. Everyone you look up to has failed during their lifetime. Everyone makes mi..."

I fully agree with the quote that making mistakes is a part of life. In order to fully thrive, we need to learn off of those mistakes so that we can do better next time. If we dwindle on those mistakes, then we are living in the past and dismissing what is going on in the present.

Joshua wrote: "1. An impacting passage is, "Imagination is a source of fear, but may also be the cure of fear. 'Imagineering' is the use of mental images to build factual results, and it is an astonishingly effec..."

What does it say about being self-confident?

1. "Today we are now thrown into contact all the time with people whose assumptions, perspectives, and backgrounds are different from our own. The modern world is not two brothers feuding for control of the Ottoman Empire. It is Cortés and Montezuma struggling to understand each other through multiple layers of translators. Talking to Strangers is about why we are so bad at that act of translation.” This passage means that in life we aren't always two similar people when we have misunderstandings and disagreements we are often to unfamiliar people who don't know each other when we have issues like on school assignments and joint projects with coworkers. The biggest problems arise from situations where we know each other the least so it's important to understand each other.
2. My book relates to self awareness because in chapter 6 it talks about why it is so hard to understand each other and read each others emotions and it says that it is often the most difficult to understand another person when you can not understand yourself
My book relates to self management because in chapter 9 it discusses how during interrogation the hardest to break have the most to lose and their self management is so unwavering and strong that they can make it years on end without talking.
My author, Malcolm Gladwell, talks about the court case of Amanda Knox an Italian exchange student who was accused of killing her roommate. Gladwell talks about how during her 8 year prison sentence even after being lied to and told she had an incurable disease she never lost hope and was eventually proved innocent.
The main topic of my book pretty much is social awareness. Throughout Gladwell talks about case after case of times where social awareness failed or was ignored and the consequences of those mistakes, and how we can learn from those mistakes.
In my book Gladwell talks about the slaughter of the ancient Mayans by Spanish conquistadors and how it was an absolute and total fail of a potential relationship after a translating issue. It was overall a completely detrimental fail of relationship management.
3. I think that the person that should read this book is someone who wants to learn about how to understand and learn about the issues associated with talking to strangers and how to avoid them in everyday life.
4. I have learned that we can't always understand the stranger not everyone is transparent and not everyone wants to be understood we just have to do our best to gauge who they are.
I have also learned transparency is not simple at all. Seldom is someone showing how they are feeling on the outside and we just have to accept that and instead ask how they are feeling we can't assume.
Finally I have learned that as humans we have to accept a lot of failure in our lives and we have to accept that. No one could ever do everything perfect and we instead have to improve ourselves the best we can and accept that we aren't perfect.

1) "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Or to put it more simply : don't try"
-Mark Manson is a blunt, profanity using author, but his words are symbolic simultaneously. I choose this excerpt because it represents his persistent theme throughout the book: "dont try". He's saying if you chase the things you dont already have and try to find the meaning of them, youll be chasing forever. He's suggesting to be content with what you have and to do your best with it. Because when you start chasing, you start losing what you have.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Self-awareness : To start out the book, Mark (my aforementioned author) talked about a failure who remained a failure and reached success. He says, " he realized, probably the only one he would ever get". He's saying that, that person was SELF AWARE that his opportunities were seldom and jumped on them immediately. Which is a reoccurring theme in my book

Self-management: Throughout the whole book, he always talking about realizing that you have mistakes or that you arent perfect and accepting them. Using them to your advantage or taking off that burden.

Self-motivation: He talks about surpassing everyones expectations including your own. He says (in my own words) that using that as fuel and get you the way

Social-Awareness: Again, to start off the book, he talks a failure who has success. he said that, that person used his failures and shared them, making him successful.

Relationship Management: He talks about not being a couch potato, do good for yourself or others rather than bringing them down.
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3) Someone who is stress full should most definitely read this book. He talks about where to implement your (excuse my language) "f***s". He says to not stress the minpr things and focus on the big problems. EX: dont worry about your show cancelling, worry about your credit card maxing out. This can be very insightful for someone who"s stressed.
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4) To reiterate, ive learned many lessons. Ive learned to not stress the little things. Ive learned to be comfortable with my imperfections bc everybody has and/or makes them. All of everything ive learned ive already known it just reinforces it and makes me more educated.

1:"The Thinker is the lizard brain, and the Observer is the developed brain. Most people go their whole lives without realizing this, and it is a real tragedy." This quote explains a main idea for the book as far as i have read. The book says that when you are connected to the thinker rather than the observer, you are always unhappy and unfulfilled because the thinker is always in the past or future never the present, so he misses things and feels awful all the time. The thinker then drags you down.
2: This Book is teaching how to live in the present and not get caught up in the past. It gives exercises to try to help you find yourself and preform better and to get yourself to do the stuff you don't want to do, which is self management. It talks about how a good motivator is to not listen to the thinker, who tells you how you can be doing something better or more enjoyable, which is helpful with self motivation. It talks about focusing on the observer, who is the one who is neutral, and is their to give you the best instruction to grow. It also teaches you to control the thinker when you are in a sour relationship, because he thinks that you are always right and that can be poisonous to any relationship.this is a helpful thing for relationship management. The book also teaches how to be aware of others by putting yourself in their situation and trying to feel how they would feel if they treated you in the way you treated them and how that may have helped them, which can help you grow in the social awareness category. Lastly It teaches how to figure out what traps you and how to break free and fully find yourself. this final thing connects to self awareness. I think that people who are under a lot of pressure and in situations that are very stressful and hard to deal with. This book would be helpful to people who don't know there direction and what they want to do with their lives.
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a: The first lesson that i leaned from my book is that when you feel trapped don't panic. look at the situation and think about what you can do to free yourself or to help feel less pain.
b: The second lesson that i learned is that if you live in the past or the future you will never be truly happy. You will continually think of something better or more fun you did or could be doing. The book is teaching me how to live in the now.
c:The third and final lesson this book has taught me is that nature, god, the creator, etc. has created us for a reason, and that reason couldn't be for us to fail. so while things may be difficult, things are never impossible, and we need to keep going.

Maraya22 wrote: "An impacting passage is, "ordinary unconsciousness is always linked in some way with denial of the Now. The Now, of course, also implies the here. Are you resisting your here and now. Some people w..."

How is the passage impacting to you? And also, how does it help an individual with their awareness? Any tools?

1."Our unconscious is a powerful force. But its fallible. It's not the case that our internal computer always shines through, instantly decoding the 'Truth' of the situation. It can be thrown off, distracted and disabled." To me this means that we cant always trust the snap decisions that our unconscious makes and we have to learn to be aware of that and teach ourselves to make better snap decisions.
2.this book shows self awareness when it talks about how we should and when we shouldn't trust our snap decisions. is shows self awareness where it talks about . it shows self motivation when it says that the black students were less motivated and performed poorly when reminded of their race. When it talks about how the they had close friends of their student take a questionnaire on them and see how well they knew their friends they were talking about social awareness. When it talks about how the newly weds argued and had a lot of hostility towards each other they were talking about relationship management.
3.i would recommend this book to people who struggle making quick decision and don't have confidence in the decisions they make.
4.That even when you have a little bit of information your decisions can still be up to 80% accurate. That we know when we should and shouldn't trust our snap decisions, and that we can develop and teach ourselves how to make better snap judgments

Davani wrote: "1. One impacting passage that will allow others to to know the book better is when Erica says " when you know what you believe, what makes you special, and how you're called, something inside you c..."

I, too, am trying to find my place in the world. As I explore more about my inner self I am starting to realize what my purpose is and what I am trying to do for others and myself.