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Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected

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Like a good friend, this book offers welcome input to help you live more fully and realize your potential. Wisdom 2.0 shows how to find balance while moving at the fast pace of modern life. Gordhamer writes about real-life challenges with insight, humor and humility. Skilled with cutting edge technology and grounded in ancient wisdom traditions, the author provides practical strategies for developing the inner focus, clarity and creativity essential for success.

Interesting. Thought provoking insights gleaned from author's life experiences. However, the title promises more than the book actually delivers.

Unusual size and shape of the book makes it attractive as a coffee table item, but less than handy to store with other normal sized books.

Length:: 2:21 Mins

This book is easy to read and organized very well. As someone who has already done a lot of reading and practicing of buddhism and mindfulness most of the tips were fairly common sense to me. However it consolidated everything into a short, straightforward read for those of you who are short on time.

If you are overwhelmed with your daily dosing of technology and don't know how to deal with it I'd suggest this book. For more advanced mindfulness practitioners you will probably already use a lot of this advice in your daily life anyway.

I suppose I had an expectation that I would immediately find something useful here.
Perhaps I am still in too closed a frame of mind to appreciate the book.

As the 20th Century was put to rest, and we ushered in the 21st, we've seen massive technological advances. Whether it be faster and more stable computers & internet connections, Blackberries, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and even recently Amazon launched it's Kindle. We've been overwhelmed by technology, whether we have come to terms with it or not.

Wisdom 2.0 teaches valuable lessons on relinquishing the grasp our new attachment to technology has on us, and what we can do to slow down the need to be constantly plugged in all the time. I for one am a HUGE techno-abuser, whether I'm right here typing away, checking my Facebook, E-mail (incessantly) I'm nearly always plugged in.


Soren Gordhamer has laid it all out simply, with various exercises to practice. Soren is not saying we need to completely stop using these things we enjoy, but can teach us how to cope with the stresses we cause ourselves.

We are constantly over-stimulated. Stop right now and think when the last time you checked your e-mail? 10 minutes ago? 5 minutes ago? 30 seconds ago? Has it really been that long? How about Facebook?

The practical exercises that are laid out are meant to focus us back, to get the creative juices of our minds flowing, the one's that become stagnant after hours of staring at the screen. Soren gives us the creative ability back, allowing us even just an extra moment away- ok, maybe more than but that I'm still working on the exercises alright?