117. The Truth About You- Marcus Buckingham
Do Yourself a Favour
Marcus Buckingham: The Truth About You
If you are starting out in your work life or are not satisfied with the work life you have landed yourself in, which is quite a wide spectrum of the work force, then do yourself a favour and read “The Truth About You.”
The book is enticing because if you follow it and put it into practice, it really does gnaw out the malignancy of that overhanging cloud that comes over quite a lot of us on Monday mornings. The book, however, does not take you to the “Promised Land”, so don’t be deceived, but because it gives you practical exercises to do, it will take you half-way there, provided you put those exercises into practice.
I say half-way because it is not realistic to presume that all your dreams may be fulfilled by learning certain mechanisms and that these mechanisms will take you directly to a job that was conceived, packed and wrapped just for you. But what this book does help you to do is provide the tools for you to create and build the job that fits just you.
One of the things that burden most our lives is making decisions. Knowing what really makes you tick is an advantage to anyone, at whatever stage or age people are because when you have to make a decision you are no longer stumped. Your decision, because you know what you really want and not what you thought you wanted, will therefore, always be to your advantage.
http://scottweldon.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-truth-about-you.html
In answer to the above review.
Gandhi had a point when he said he liked Christianity, it was just the Christians he couldn’t stand. I think the writer of the article has decided that his view on Christ, the Church and the Bible is the only one that really matters and expects that a Christian Publisher like Thomas Nelson should adopt that view too on what is published or not. In this rigid conception of what Christianity is all about, the fact that there are many mansions in my Father’s house, seems to have been completely overlooked.
Know thyself and you will know God, is what the Saints have echoed throughout time. Just because Marcus Buckingham does not use the vocabulary that recalls hell and brimstone but one appropriate to the readers the book is meant to assist, it does not mean the book is against Christian ethics. The review claims that the secular and humanistic tone of the book is in contrast with biblical principles- maybe I’m dumb but I fail to see how the human is to be separated from the spiritual- after all Jesus went to great lengths to take on the physical aspects of humanity- it is not us who have become like Him but He who has become like us. That this element, the birth of Christ, has become the most celebrated feast of all times, is not simply a coincidence, I don’t think.
The review states that a biblical response to one feeling strong is when one is weak. Here again one important factor has been overlooked. If as Christians we are asked to keep lying low (I doubt it God had it planned to create us all introverts), and not achieve our potentials, then that really is a slap in the face of God, who, if I remember rightly is a hard master and reaps where he has not sown. God, like the master in the parable, expects great things from us because he has given us so many talents. But how the hell do we know what these talents are unless someone like Marcus Buckingham comes along and tells us how to find them?
And find them we must, for we are not to hide our light under a bush, nor forget that after death there is also a Resurrection- which some people would like to deny us of too.
Marcus Buckingham: The Truth About You
If you are starting out in your work life or are not satisfied with the work life you have landed yourself in, which is quite a wide spectrum of the work force, then do yourself a favour and read “The Truth About You.”
The book is enticing because if you follow it and put it into practice, it really does gnaw out the malignancy of that overhanging cloud that comes over quite a lot of us on Monday mornings. The book, however, does not take you to the “Promised Land”, so don’t be deceived, but because it gives you practical exercises to do, it will take you half-way there, provided you put those exercises into practice.
I say half-way because it is not realistic to presume that all your dreams may be fulfilled by learning certain mechanisms and that these mechanisms will take you directly to a job that was conceived, packed and wrapped just for you. But what this book does help you to do is provide the tools for you to create and build the job that fits just you.
One of the things that burden most our lives is making decisions. Knowing what really makes you tick is an advantage to anyone, at whatever stage or age people are because when you have to make a decision you are no longer stumped. Your decision, because you know what you really want and not what you thought you wanted, will therefore, always be to your advantage.
http://scottweldon.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-truth-about-you.html
In answer to the above review.
Gandhi had a point when he said he liked Christianity, it was just the Christians he couldn’t stand. I think the writer of the article has decided that his view on Christ, the Church and the Bible is the only one that really matters and expects that a Christian Publisher like Thomas Nelson should adopt that view too on what is published or not. In this rigid conception of what Christianity is all about, the fact that there are many mansions in my Father’s house, seems to have been completely overlooked.
Know thyself and you will know God, is what the Saints have echoed throughout time. Just because Marcus Buckingham does not use the vocabulary that recalls hell and brimstone but one appropriate to the readers the book is meant to assist, it does not mean the book is against Christian ethics. The review claims that the secular and humanistic tone of the book is in contrast with biblical principles- maybe I’m dumb but I fail to see how the human is to be separated from the spiritual- after all Jesus went to great lengths to take on the physical aspects of humanity- it is not us who have become like Him but He who has become like us. That this element, the birth of Christ, has become the most celebrated feast of all times, is not simply a coincidence, I don’t think.
The review states that a biblical response to one feeling strong is when one is weak. Here again one important factor has been overlooked. If as Christians we are asked to keep lying low (I doubt it God had it planned to create us all introverts), and not achieve our potentials, then that really is a slap in the face of God, who, if I remember rightly is a hard master and reaps where he has not sown. God, like the master in the parable, expects great things from us because he has given us so many talents. But how the hell do we know what these talents are unless someone like Marcus Buckingham comes along and tells us how to find them?
And find them we must, for we are not to hide our light under a bush, nor forget that after death there is also a Resurrection- which some people would like to deny us of too.
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