Ever been leant a book from a friend, or business associate? As you are reading through said self help book (dieting, finance, business... ) you start to notice that the pages just seemed filled with filler to put enough pages to print to justify a book? Maybe you feel like you can only take away 1 single message out of the entire text. For example, I burned through a book on hypnotic writing to assist in some copywriting skills, and came away from the book with the only quality piece of advice being the 4 p's of sales (yes, that was the core). The rest was filled with direct COPIES of blog entries by the author, letters to the author from people who swore what he said worked, and even him trying to tell me his magic method worked. I already had the book, what was he trying to sell? Anyways, this review is NOT about that book. Have you felt like this before when reading a self help book? Felt it a worthless waste of time? Ok, then maybe YOU are of the right mindset for Being Buddha at Work.
I approach most self help books the same way as the above, and was slightly sceptical when ordering, but the format and references from friends made me jump on it.
Being Buddha at Work is the opposite of the cheesy self help book. It is deeper, more introspective, smarter and more poignant that what you might even consider some peoples all time FAVOURITE self help books, such as Rich Dad poor Dad, 7 Habits, etc. It does this by limiting the words on the page to only value, and filling every page with meaningful points. Besides making every page WORTH your time, it is also skilfully broken up by subject and issue, making it easy to read front to back in multiple sittings, or skip to through the table of contents. It also doesn't make an attempt to convert you to any religion, but instead only imparts intriguing philosophy and draws direct parallels to most of the problems you deal with today.
If you have been looking for a great book to put issues into perspective, and attempt new problem solving and thought techniques, both at work and in life, I highly recommend this book.
