The Act of Will: A Guide to Self-Actualization & Self-Realization [Paperback]

Roberto Assagioli (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: David Platts Pub Co (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0952400413
• ISBN-13: 978-0952400417
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,634,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very useful information; supportive and effective, February 26, 2002

By 

Robert Johnston (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Act of Will: A Guide to Self-Actualization & Self-Realization (Paperback)

I got to this book years after having read self-help books such as Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain, all of Carlos Castaneda, books about TAO and Zen, Edward DeBono, books about creativity, learning and thinking, various ancient oriental and North American aboriginal authors, etc. I have to rate it very highly as being useful WHEN YOU NEED TO GET TO ACTION. This is a rare thing.

Books that have that authentic ability to trigger you to action are rare, and Gawains book is one. The Act Of Will is also constantly useful to me, as a way to help me clarify my own strengths and weaknesses, and to quickly focus on progress. I got into publishing, but a recession came upon the market, and I got demotivated. I tell you, you can't afford to give up on your own highest aspirations. Will power, from start to finish of some act of creative endeavor, is a challenge. Failures on that path, like bodies in a vicious war, are stacked very very high.

To make your own way in any endeavor, you will find your inspirations, goals, and will power coming up against limits, both internal and external. The Act Of Will really helped me see again, and to feel again, the real value and deserved attention that my publishing was. I should not have let it drift, but I was on my own.

To anyone who can relate to either being or feeling alone when you consider some venture, then why not gather some terrific support. Best advisors are rarely there when you need them (in the flesh). So instead, take the personal advice from geniuses, and get on with it!!

Take this book home and use it. I hope the will power to do that much, is with you today. This book will greatly improve the odds that your will power will be much more consistent and powerful in the very near future.

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for Appendix One alone, January 22, 2009

By 

Stephen Hawley "NLPer" (Smithville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Act of Will: A Guide to Self-Actualization & Self-Realization (Paperback)

The Self-Identification Exercise in Appendix One has proven to be most useful in releasing emotional obstacles and for greatly and rapidly improving any skill that I care to use it on.