(Book) Awaken the Giant Within -Anthony Robbins (10/10)

[Basman]

Foundational and essential self-help. You can't do proper self-help and personal development without understanding the core premise of this book, that you can improve your life by consciously controlling your mind. For example, by understanding and controlling the standards you set for yourself, the beliefs you order your life around, your values, how you condition your mind and much more. The book is packed with different principles and techniques that all revolve around this one concept, taking charge of your life by understanding and employing the principles that control your mind. 

Understanding how you take control of your mind is the core of self-help and why I consider this book to be so essential. If you don't know how to employ your mind in order to create an awesome life, your essentially leaving your life up to happenstance. I consider a book like this basic level self-help and I recommend everyone who's into personal development to read this or something else similar. But you'll be hard pressed to find something as jam packed as this one. There are so much information in this book that it was hard to keep track of it all in my experience. Definitely worth reading over and over to squeeze it for all of its juice. You can spend a lot of time just integrating all of this principles. And only working with one or two will alone massively contribute to you happiness.

What is neat about this kind of self-help is that the principles and techniques are things that don't depend on externalities. They are wholly internal and can be employed at any time at any moment. That is such a beautiful and powerful thing and hard to appreciate the power of. That is power of your mind. This book has been massively awakening for myself relative to just understanding how much power I actually have over my life and potential to create a great life. It is basic, but basic is good and needs to be practiced. You wouldn't go without breath after all. In my opinion, the majority of people lack a strong grasp on the basics. We would have a much healthier and happier society if people understood just a fraction of these principles.

10/10

Page count: 544

[hyruga]

Yes excellent book.

The 90 min audiobook provides a great summary.