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The Enlightened Savage: Using Primal Instincts for Personal & Business Success

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Honestly, in the beginning I was just going to read the book because I told a friend I would. Usually, self-help books make me laugh and I don't finish them because they are so sappy or pie in the sky. But, the logic in this one got my attention. I decided to try the exercises just to prove them wrong. But I was the one who had to admit I was wrong in this case. The book makes sense, and IT WORKS!

The Enlightened Savage unravels the fabric of our belief systems from an evolutionary framework, encouraging us to think about why we do what we do and how we can turn what we do into effective results. This "enlightening" book explores our prehistoric innateness and relates it to a modern day computing processor. You may get the sense that the human thinking brain is in constant conflict with the instinctive brain, our core programming. Yet our brain "accepts negative programming as survival instructions." Anthony perceives that we are here for a reason, that we have a purpose, and that our struggles likely stem from not knowing or accepting our life's mission, our dharma. Become personally empowered through built-in exercises and self-assessing questions. This book's short, snappy segments cut to the chase, and leave plenty of places where the traveler can stop off and pick the book up at the next station. Be prepared to do some heavy pondering. Anthony provides some strong, thought provoking observations like, "If one of the single biggest genetic differences between humans and monkeys is indeed the gene that's mutated in humans--then human evolution began with a genetic disorder. In other words, we humans may arguably be diseased monkeys." [sharonbender.com]