Timothy A. Gapinski

divine gift to humanity

Revisado: 10-20-23

The 1962 and the 1985 appends

Are very different

In style, yet they demonstrate his full recovery and usefulness

To the world

Committing to reading this, at least once a year

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Sterling ending

Revisado: 03-19-23

I don’t know if it was intentional or not, probably not, but the authentic yet insensitive story to illustrate the 100% wonderful valid point in the second to last chapter about how Benjamin bumped into a neighbor in his gated community and bought a third house overnight left me measuring the gap in ski.
But the final chapter washed me clean me and exposed how happy I am right now. Which is so much happier than I’ve ever been! Due to the Gains his you tube videos freed me to buy The time and life I needed To increase my immediate happiness eleven fold. Just knowing I can choose from this day forward to wake up this happy and even more likely happier than this.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the Fourth of July for reasons for America!

I think I know why now!

You know I live literally minutes from gated communities.

And now when I drive by then I will choose to remind myself of the internal metaphor that their closeness symbolizes in my life

And someday I won’t know what to do with my money
Other than buy 51 copies of this book and joyfully pass it out To the many people I love!

In hopes that they to can truly make similar powerful choices like this beautiful man has taught me to make.

To be clear, i am Especially thankful for the very last chapter and the drama of his transparent gains.

Which also catapulted me to easily forgive Dan’s awkward stuttering.

I am happy with this book.

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It’s Not a book.

Revisado: 05-23-19

Chapter 2 is music chapter 1 is mantras repeated over and over I don’t know what else I need to say

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It's okay if bill hybels didn't read the book

Revisado: 09-04-15

I first learned about Ed in an interview with Bill hybels at the leadership conference. A conference which boasts 250,000 global viewers . The interview actually inspired me to buy and start reading the book immediately. At the top of the interview Bill made the mistake of introducing Ed the president of Pixar and not Walt Disney. As I was reading the book I wondered if Bill Hybels even read the book because I couldn't understand how he could've made such a mistake. On second thought, I heard Ed directly correct Bill at the interview before I read the book. The book clearly implies Ed is the president of Disney, but I can't say as I heard it said in the book. Bill made a mistake, but the leadership conference, (bills product, so- to-speak) has been and remains an excellent product. Therefore I am sure Ed would be happy to hire him! This is the wisdom of Ed's book. The leadership summit consistently introduces me to great books and great leaders. And Bill was once again my favorite. His passion is contagious and his His sense of humor is a delight and his intellect is good. Not sure of eds sense of humor, but his passion and brilliance......well they are unmatched in any books I have read on this topic of leadership

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Audible member since 2007 this is my most listened to book.

Revisado: 01-30-15

I play table tennis twice a week and this book has become a living growing book that changes with age and experience. I listen to it for the 30 or 40 minute drive. I never get tired of it. It really about living life listen to the better side of who we are. And my game always improves because of this book

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families, culture, psychology history at its best!

Revisado: 12-12-12

i have to give this book 5 stars to make up for the excessive grumbling about the sound quality in other reviews. Here is the deal on the sound. They play background music for the first 30 seconds of a chapter. Those 30 seconds are offensive to modern ears. However, this problem can also serve the point of the book. The first 30 seconds of each chapter can literally serve as an example of a superficial cultural expectation which could be used to subvert the real content of the book and of its value to family life. If you are not buying the book because of these sound reviews then i would recommend the book all the more.

I doubt if the cultural and historical comparisons of families in this book will ever be better told. Further relevance of this comparison to the crisis of meaning that both families and individuals suffering under today could not be more precise. Its not a nostalgic book about the good ol days but rather a search for meaning for today. The author is fair about the good ol days and mentions the bad "sound quality" moments.

Her clarity about the dangers of viewing family problems solely from a psychological or only from a culture perspective is brilliant and as clear as i have ever read about it. The skill with which the values and words of our grandparents and our fading parents are extracted to our benefit is a talent only a few surgeons can perform.

And though the book is not from the latest tablet and smart phone era, it ironically rings clearer! I think this could be because at least the previous television-video-games-cell-phone era was actually easier to identify than today's comprehensive talking portable computer surfaces.

Further, the joy and promise of these novel devices clouds us more than even more primitive devices did only a few years back. Yet living in this latest era that is beyond outrage characterized primarily by the inhumanity of rootless corporate globalization , political hijacking, global fundamentalist regression and ruthless and callous work conditions, families need to understand how families have survived as long as they have.

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Oh My God a Case

Revisado: 01-05-11

This is so convincing and so well done. I rarely take in a book this deeply and earnestly. I could not find a single place to really argue or gripe. This is a timeless work that deserves your time at least once through. The conclusions are profound and have shaken for the better my faith based view of the world. She almost apologized that she ended with Derrida and I appreciated her doing so, but she should have clearly ended with Zizek.
The Fat Free Atheist Chocolate Ice Cream Cookie Bar. It would have been the perfect cherry on top of her perfect point.

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