Deep, full of insight, helpful and a little loony.
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Just get it. It'll cost you a penny second hand, and it's well worth it. I mean just look at the fact there are 38 reviews to it's name!
But beware, he's going to talk about God. That's right, a psychotherapist talking about God. He only does so however in the last section and by then you've got enough benefit from it to throw it away with a smile and no resentment, no matter how hardened an atheist you are.
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Briliant answers to questions you've never quite been able to articulate
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If you've reached a point in time where you need to find credible answers to life's most difficult questions and someone has mentioned "The Road Less Travelled", let me say straightaway that you have definitely come to the right place.
This is an incredibly significant and important book, probably one of the very best of its type ever written. It is easily read and full of accessible wisdom. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a book that is more than capable of changing your life for the better.
Scott Peck explores two primary themes in RLT. One is that life is a series of problems and while there are no easy answers he provides a brilliant description of the tools we need to solve them. The second theme is that nearly all of the problems we encounter in life concern our relationships with ourselves and with others. So the Road Less Travelled is all about how to get the most out of life and how to build meaningful, satisfying realtionships. This description may over-simplify what is a deeply thoughtful and inspiring analysis of what it means to be human, but I hope it provides some idea of just how good this book is. Like the other reviewers here, I first read RLT 20 years ago. It helped me then. I recently came back to it and it helped me again at a whole different level.
It takes a fair amount of mental effort to fully grasp many of the concepts described within it, but the effort is certainly rewarded. Once you have understood and digested what the author is saying, you will gain a knowledge and insight that will profoundly affect how you relate to people around you, especially those you most care about.
In one sense, this book provides what can be fairly described as a practical definition of the meaning of life. You cold say that RLT is manual that solves human problems just as a car's handbook solves practical mechanical issues! So, if you've ever been faced with tough situations or problems to which no easy answers can be found, this i a great place to start. I can genuinely say that I am a happier and more fulfilled person for having read it. I hope you will be too, so do try it.
Thank you, Scott Peck.
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A Good Read
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An interesting and enjoyable read. Kept me turning the pages for some hours, which is hard to do, I normally put a book down after an hour. Thanks to the author.
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TEDIOUS NEW AGE TOME
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Just an agonisingly tedious personal growth tome, packed with obvious statements and unnecessary advices. For people whose preferred past time is buying from the Mind Body Spirit section of bookshops, without even looking at anything else. Actually, there's much more to be learned from Dostoevsky, Kafka, Wilde, Seneca or Schopenhauer...
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Arrrrrgh!!!
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It looks like I'm in the minority here, but by the end of this book I really wasn't impressed.
OK, so the first section of the book, "Discipline," was really good. It was common sense. But there the good stuff stopped.
The following chapters advocated a life of suffering, pain and ultimately loneliness, seeking spiritual growth. If Peck practices what he preaches, he must live a joyless existence.
And then the worst of it was the religion. After stating that you didn't need to be religious, in the conventional sense of the word,to achieve spiritual growth, he spends a section, "Grace" telling us how God is our subconscious. He says that spiritual growth is about getting in touch with God and doing God's will, with plenty of 'evidence' from the Bible.
It all just seemed a bit contradictory and I didn't like that fact that Peck was pushing his life view and values on the reader in a manner that suggested that they were his professional, rather than personal opinions.
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