Has a book ever changed your life?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
September 30, 2015 3:08am CST
A slogan one sometimes sees on a book jacket, or in a review, is "This book could change your life". However, is that ever true?
I'm sure that lots of people will come up with the stock response of The Bible, and then produce the usual spiel about how it transformed them from a miserable sinner into one of The Saved, but I was thinking about a more thoughtful response.
For me, Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion is a possibility, in that it made the case for Atheism so compelling. However, I don't want to create a religious debate if I can help it, so I wonder if there are other life-changing books - on other themes - that people can bring to mind?
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@skysnap (20153)
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30 Sep 15
For me most of the dale carnegie helped a lot. I found that most of the time such books do help. but in real life you have to be really calm to apply those stuff. I have also followed some buddha philosophies to be calm because it is hard to be calm when you don't have belief in something. but that being said, it does help to read such self help work.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
30 Sep 15
I wonder how much change actually happened as a result of people reading Dale Carnegie's books?
@allknowing (135885)
• India
30 Sep 15
When I was just married I had to make a lot of adjustments and being I found it diffcult. I then came across this book by Norman Vincent Peale - Power of Positive Thinking. That changed me completely.
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@Believeinreality (20)
• Kolkata, India
30 Sep 15
I think everyone needs a guidance or motivation to move in life. Some of us get motivated from inside and some from outside sources. But what matters is that if we are ready to accept what we think is right. If people are changed only by reading books then there won't be any trouble in this world. So, I believe that those people who have transformed their lives by reading some good motivational books are the ones who have believed in their thinking and accepted the truth.
