Comments on: Daily Q – What Is One Book That Has Changed Your Life? http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/ Executive and Life Coach Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: terry goodkind http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 terry goodkind Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:31:14 +0000 http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/#comment-2875 [...] 5, 2008, 10:31 amby admin best video: terry goodkind foruser();    Daily Q - What Is One Book That Has Changed Your Life?For some it??s the Bible, for others its ???Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy??. You may be moved by [...] [...] 5, 2008, 10:31 amby admin best video: terry goodkind foruser();    Daily Q – What Is One Book That Has Changed Your Life?For some it??s the Bible, for others its ???Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy??. You may be moved by [...]

]]> By: terry goodkind http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2874 terry goodkind Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:16:14 +0000 http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/#comment-2874 [...] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago. Now, I know that last one seems out of place, so lethebookfire.comDaily Q - What Is One Book That Has Changed Your Life?For some it??s the Bible, for others its ???Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy??. You may be moved by [...] [...] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago. Now, I know that last one seems out of place, so lethebookfire.comDaily Q – What Is One Book That Has Changed Your Life?For some it??s the Bible, for others its ???Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy??. You may be moved by [...]

]]> By: Nick Pagan http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2845 Nick Pagan Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:45:11 +0000 http://www.robschaumer.com/blog/2008/02/18/daily-q-what-is-one-book-that-has-changed-your-life/#comment-2845 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. 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.

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