Awaken The Giant Within

 Usefulness in my own life: 

Key Points:

1.      Beliefs about who we are and who we are not, affect our behaviour and as a result our lives. Tony Robbins backs it up by a couple of real life examples. He tells the readers how the lives of two kids born to the family of the prisoner ended up being completely different due to the different beliefs they had.

2.      What you link pain to and what you link pleasure to shapes your destiny. One example that Tony provided is how he started to hate beer after the process of drinking it was linked to the painful (or disgusting in his case) experience.

3.      Change can happen in an instant. According to the author, there are three thoughts that you need to have for this change to happen and they can be summed up in the following sentence – Something must change, I must change I believe I can change

4.      Emotion is created by motion. Every single emotion has a certain posture attached to it, if you wanna feel a certain way then you need to change your posture to the one corresponding to the feeling you want to get.

5.      It is Crucial to know the order of importance of your own values. In the book, Tony tells us how the knowledge of her own values helped his daughter to make an important decision in her life.

What I Liked In The Book

                     1.   The broadness of the topics covered in this book. Many aspects of human behaviour have been covered starting from how our values affect our decisions and ending with the impact of our physiology in our emotional state

                     2.    Personal connection with the reader at times I felt that Tony is sitting in front of me and telling me all of this stuff

                     3.  The variety of real life examples. Mr Robbins provides us with so many examples from real life that there is no chance that you will have difficulty with understanding the concepts taught in this book.

What I didn’t like

          1.  In my view, the title is misleading. Because “Awaken The Giant Within” sounds as something focused mainly on the techniques of improving yourself and making drastic changes to your productivity but this is not what the book is about.

                    2.   I felt that there wasn’t enough emphasis on what exactly we need to do to control our emotional and mental states. It would be much better if Tony dedicated 10-15 pages solely to this matter.

Overall I feel that this book is worthy of your time and it will make you think and analyse your own life and hopefully make positive changes.

See you in my next posts :)