I love reading .. be it anything .... So naturally with all the hype & attention associated with this book .. I had to read it. I had to wait many-a-months to lay my hands on this book ... as I had to wait for a friend of mine to buy it in the first place(i told you I love reading .. but I dont like buying them!)
Now on to the book , to me it was the most humiliating experience to have read that book. The book some how makes you feel like a form of low life. It makes you look back and hate yourself for what you did and even to what you would have done! Come on ... honestly how many people fell for that book??? Lets get realistic for some time ... the times are changing and so are we. I agree that what we are doing is just bad for our health and we lose the essence of our lives and living it. But I feel the book exaggerates the condition we are in. I really don’t believe that a person can actually put a limit to his work and detach itself from work completely .. for one thing we have been taught all our lives is to be a winner ... and how can we win if we don’t consider the work to be our life!
Tell me Mr. Robin Sharma, are all the hardworking successful persons unhappy, fat, sadistic people who have no life?? I dont think so. See .... the life of a person whether working or not has many strings attached to it ... and it has as many, if not more, sources of mental tension and pressure acting on them. So why does not everyone succumb to it?? I will tell you why.... It is simply the rule of survival of the fittest.Darwin stated that only the fittest survive. With all the technological advancements and medicinal advancements ... the human beings are at par in physical strengths .. by that I mean ... even a 100 pound weakling by a virtue of a phone call can get a hearty meal of his choicest delicacies .. and live to be a 100 whether he deserves to or not.... So how does the nature choose now as to who is fit for survival and who is not??? It’s all in the mind... those who are mentally strong and agile will thrive in the pressure often using it to propel them forward. They can do any thing and like it .. be happy and succesful .... I hope you are getting my point. I am open to debate on this anytime. But to keep my article short I am summing it up in the next paragraph.
so in short my feeling is that .. by virtue of words and exercises you cannot instill in people the kind of mental character that is needed .. its basically in born .. but with words you can make people believe that they can handle it ...
As for me ... I am an optimist, I love my life, love my goals and I enjoy myself .. I get bored very often but I am never down and out ... and one thing I cannot live with is some one telling me that I am living my life in a wrong way ... and then suggest some stereotypical factory made advice , with only the wordings changed . I call that a load of bull .. and I dont take it ..... see I could never bring myself to finish that book !!!!!