This book is about answering the question, “What is the best use of a life time?” In it, John Georgevits combines his own personal passion for rock and ice climbing with ideas from the world’s great philosophers and religions to develop a framework for making the right choices in life. In five simple steps he builds an approach that lends its self to making choices from what climbs you should be doing, to what job you should take. In doing this he combines ideas ranging from western rationalism to Buddhism and Zen. In addition, he goes past just making the choices to maximizing performance and understanding the consequences.
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John Georgevits is a passionate climber who has spent his life balancing work, family and climbing. He has an MBA with a concentration in Finance and has worked in the computer field for 26 years managing diverse groups. He’s climbed many of the 50 classic climbs in North America and enjoys both Rock and Ice climbing. John has spent 30 years studying all of the world’s major religious and philosophical text including such diverse items as the Bible, Koran, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, Socrates, Thoreau, Plato, Marcus Aurelius and many, many more. John has been married for 20 years to his wife Ruth and together they have two children, Tom (15), Margaret (13). Each of the children is a strong climber in their own right.
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Think it, Feel it, Do it, Deal with it.,
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This book provides a framework for decision making at life's crossroads large or small. The author draws on Eastern and Western philosophy and religion to create a code for living by doing the right thing.
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Half Dome, Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Thomas Merton, Immanuel Kant, New England, Tao Te Ching, New Seeds of Contemplation, Aynn Rand, Chung Tzu, Nicomachean Ethics, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ten Commandments, William James, Crow Hill New!
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Half Dome, Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Thomas Merton, Immanuel Kant, New England, Tao Te Ching, New Seeds of Contemplation, Aynn Rand, Chung Tzu, Nicomachean Ethics, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ten Commandments, William James, Crow Hill New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 5 pages
- New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton on 4 pages
- Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton on 4 pages
- Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama on page 6, and page 59
- Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins on page 77
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