Your Erroneous zones- Wayne Dyer: psychopatic philosophy

Galaxia2002

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Let's do short, this book ruined my life. When I was a teenager (14 years ago) I was looking for something that made me feel strong and empowered. I wanted to overcome my inner sensitivity because If I see somebody suffering I felt it inside as it was myself. I wanted to stop the bad feelings produced by the continued criticism of my parents and the narcissism, and I found in this book "the solution" to all this and followed to the letter. The solution was not feel nothing at all. If you didn't want to do something, simple don't do it. You can say whatever you think without get worried by other feelings; this is, become a kind of psychopath of disordered character person, and the author knows how to do this programming acceptable.

The author propose a survey:

Are you capable of controlling your own feelings?
Are you motivated from within rather than without?
Are you free from the need for approval?
Do you set up your own rules of conduct for yourself?
Are you free from the desire for justice and fairness?
Can you accept yourself and avoid complaining?
Can you avoid describing yourself in absolute terms?
Can you love yourself at all times?
Have you eliminated all dependency relationships?
Have you eliminated all blame and fault-finding in your life?
Are you free from ever feeling guilty?
Are you able to avoid worrying about the future?
Have you eliminated procrastination as a life-style?
Have you learned to fail effectively?
Are you motivated by your potential for growth, rather than a need to repair your deficiencies?

At the time I didn't have any knowledge in psychology and I internalized this concepts as the truth, I had to do a lot of work to reverse the process, the work, EE, the forum, the psychology books, had helped me a lot. Please burn this book.
 
Hi Galaxia 2002,

I read that book many many years ago and I must admit that I really like it at that time. I read it when I was around 20.

It did help me to take my life in hand and to stop being "a simple puppet for my parents, obeying always to their commands".
 
Gandalf said:
Hi Galaxia 2002,

I read that book many many years ago and I must admit that I really like it at that time. I read it when I was around 20.

It did help me to take my life in hand and to stop being "a simple puppet for my parents, obeying always to their commands".

Would your take on it be different now? (I assume it would, but some clarification might help.)
 
anart said:
Gandalf said:
Hi Galaxia 2002,

I read that book many many years ago and I must admit that I really like it at that time. I read it when I was around 20.

It did help me to take my life in hand and to stop being "a simple puppet for my parents, obeying always to their commands".

Would your take on it be different now? (I assume it would, but some clarification might help.)

Probably but I would have to read it again to analyse it with the knowledge that I have acquired since that time.
 
Gandalf said:
anart said:
Gandalf said:
Hi Galaxia 2002,

I read that book many many years ago and I must admit that I really like it at that time. I read it when I was around 20.

It did help me to take my life in hand and to stop being "a simple puppet for my parents, obeying always to their commands".

Would your take on it be different now? (I assume it would, but some clarification might help.)

Probably but I would have to read it again to analyse it with the knowledge that I have acquired since that time.

In other words, the fact that I like the book when I was 20 might not actually be objectively valuable since many things were going in my life at that moment.
 
I read this book also when I was 18 years old, and it helped me to feel better the situation I was living. It helped me to feel less desperate and feel stronger. I don't know if reading the book now I would feel the same. I don't like to read anymore books in the section "help yourself". I prefer something more profound.
 
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