Comments on: The Magic of Thinking Big

By: How to Build Confidence and Destroy Fear ? Get Rich Slowly

How to Build Confidence and Destroy Fear ? Get Rich Slowly — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:53:25 +0000

[...] Soul Shelter: The magic of thinking big [...]

By: by Tim

by Tim — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:34:31 +0000

I hear you, Chris. The subtitle alone would have put me off if it hadn’t been so strongly recommended by someone I respect. For me, it’s amazing how the text reads, considering it was written half a century ago.

Good to hear from you, and congratulations–your blog’s going great guns. Here at SS we’re continuing to putter along at absolute maximum capacity/full utilization: one post each weekly.

By: Chris Guillebeau

Chris Guillebeau — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:39:37 +0000

I agree that this book is awesome. I almost didn’t give it a chance either, because the tone can be a bit grating at times. In that sense, I compare it to Million Dollar Habits and The E-Myth Revisited– both essential books that taught me a lot as soon as I was willing to leave a few things unchallenged.

In thinking about all three of those books, I am reminded that a lot of people judge “a book by its cover” (sorry) or by a few things they don’t like rather than by the things that resonate with them.

It’s always good to make the shift to focusing on where the value is.

Keep up the great writing. I’m way behind on RSS feeds, but I’ll catch up eventually.

By: by Tim

by Tim — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:27:32 +0000

You’ll like it. I can see why an audio version might be weak; the book is prescriptive and many of the anecdotes recall 1950s American suburbia. But in print it’s a knockout.

By: Earl

Earl — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:57:30 +0000

I got the audio CD and really didn’t like the narrator’s voice. I couldn’t listen to it. I’ll have to check out the book.