Kevin

In a world where you can choose your fantasy, look up

Revisado: 01-05-25

Celebrate for a while the dream that adult people can recover and rebound from childhood trauma by being brave, kind, and vulnerable with one another. Relish how that might appear in every facet of life, from the public square and workplace to the home and bedroom. Imagine how previous hurts can become fuel and force behind becoming a better version of yourself. For the best possible experience, share reading this book with someone dear to you. Enjoy.

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Revised edition of an already vast treatment

Revisado: 04-21-24

This was a deep dive into a very narrow and focused topic, and if you want to think more intentionally about the value of your work as well as any labor you put into passion projects of any kind… this is for you.

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You need this, I need this, we need this

Revisado: 07-05-23

Take your personal practice of relationship at home, at work, and in society to the deepest and highest level. Don’t be fooled or limited by your first look at this book or your previous reading. The tools and expertly-told therapeutic tales inside this book will rock your boat and help you frame the rest of your life’s work in terms that are both safe and life-altering for all. Don’t put it off.

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Worth the long fall down… seriously

Revisado: 02-01-23

Give the book your time and you will receive stories to enjoy and marvel, but also work through a little breaking of bone, and heart.

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Every day, in every possible way

Revisado: 09-06-22

When you read a book that will change every conversation you ever have, or have ever had… that’s one worth sharing as far and wide as possible. Work, home, friends, community… there’s nowhere you won’t be thinking back to passages and people in this book as you ponder and explore how to listen, nurture belonging, and honor the dignity of those closest to you in space and in your networks of relationship. Grateful for the book!

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Worth every minute

Revisado: 01-12-22

Owned the hardcopy for decades. Just remembered to remember this book and finally finish it in the writer’s own voice.

No regrets. About reading the book. Nor about looking deeply into the obscure and all too obvious corners of what makes a life well-lived.

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Every American human will make their world better by reading this important book, and getting in touch with their “soul nerve”

Revisado: 04-26-21

After hearing an interview with Resmaa Menakem on Krista Tippett’s On Being podcast, I felt compelled to read this book. It is clear from any reasonable standpoint that discussions of race — including racial tension or bias, history or race relations, equity and equality, or anything else in this country conditioned by skin color and culture — are all, without exception, experienced as strongly emotional and deeply impactful for everyone involved. It should be obvious to even casual observers that progress in such discussions is frequently, if not uniformly, beset by barriers that come from subconscious and visceral reactions to the issues at hand and the people involved. This reality is so pervasive that we almost miss it, like fish swimming in poisoned water that has simply come to be the norm.

Stepping outside oneself just long enough to perceive this situation — which the interview helped to foster for me — is the first step toward becoming aware of this uncomfortable situation, becoming more present in one’s own body with its limitations and potentialities, and working through the “clean pain” of resolving trauma before blowing it through others mindlessly or maliciously.

If you can see, even briefly or fleetingly, how this can improve your own life, the lives of those close to you, and the community and world you live in, no matter where you stand or sit in this scenario, then you will find this book as powerful and life-altering as I believe it will be for me.

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Gripping, tragic, and forward-looking

Revisado: 02-01-20

What are the odds? You find yourself asking that question over and over again in this book… it was worth reading every twist and turn, even though it is heartbreaking and frustrating at every level.

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A tale that grows truer with every passing day

Revisado: 08-19-19

East or West, this book continues to refer to painful truths about how large groups of individuals both form a society with high, middle, and low status... and also how the high consolidate and preserve power. Raw, unadulterated power exercised and expanded purely for its own sake is at once terrifying and a thing to behold, as humans push the limits of what we can achieve.

This book continues to be frighteningly prophetic, describing the systematic dismantling of just one or two lives. Totalitarianism does not permit the exercise of the best of what makes us human, as the means of inflicting pain and fear grow deeper and broader almost without bound. In 2019, we continue to see "great" societies edging ever closer to perfecting those tools even more sharply and forcefully than Orwell imagined... but only because of his perspective limited by time.

Prescient and keen, if he had the chance to report again today, he might update the volume for 2054 or 2084 and be just as accurate, shocking, and disheartening in retelling how humanity repeatedly gives its utmost to indulge our worst impulses. Reading the original story today in a world of global online search, absolute non-privacy at home and in the streets, and the daily repetition of two minutes of hate... one shudders at the thought that we aren't even at the bottom yet.

Painful, incisive, essential reading for anyone who is willing to look behind the curtain at what we are capable of doing to ourselves and one another, while doing literally everything to mask that despicable truth.

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this book explains so much...

Revisado: 02-20-15

that you are quite sure is happening but may have struggled to explain... thank you science, and thank you Daniel Pink

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