For some it’s the Bible, for others its ‘Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy’. You may be moved by the fiction of Terry Goodkind or the biography of Gandhi. Whether it is ‘The Magic Of Thinking Big’ or ‘Of Mice And Men’ there are books that have had a massive impact on you emotionally and intellectually. What was it about one book that has such an effect on you? What life lessons did you learn? How did it change you? When is the last time you read it? I’d love to read about the books that have had the greatest impact on you.
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It’s a tough call to select just one book but I would say that “People In Quandaries” by Wendell Johnson had one of the biggest impacts on me intellectually and emotionally. It’s a book about General Semantics – a method of thinking that has lost popularity but still has great validity (I wrote a brief series of articles about some of the major principles here: http://www.nickpagan.com/blog/57/general-semantics/)
It really caused me to question a lot of things about the basis of my reality and in particular the relationship of language to how we perceive and describe the world. Things that I had taken for granted and never even questioned were revealed to me that allowed me to understand the basis of a lot of my emotional and behavioral problems.
It’s an old book (published 1946, I think) and the half goes into clinical cases which are not so interesting but the outlining of the principles is fascinating stuff. Be warned though, it might well rock the bedrock of assumptions that you’ve been living with so far.