The Little Red Book Of Wisdom

This is not a very long book and again an easy read as it is so short.   Each chapter is short, just a few pages at most.  He has many succinct stories.

The book is comprised of 2 main sections - one for the professional life and one for the personal life.  Each of those main sections is broken down into small chapters.

The points are all kept short, but putting all those things into practice will be a big challenge.

I started reading the Personal Life section first.  One of the things that I really liked was disciplining yourself as well as abstaining from things that even are potentially harmful.  Alcohol is one of those things.  His argument wasn't even that it's wrong, rather just the statistical evidence of how much harm it's done in more lives than good is enough proof.

And, one of the things he talked about that I did partially last year was read 5 chapters of Psalm a day with 1 chapter of Proverbs a day and repeat this until each book is finished each month, thus, I would do this 12 times a year.  This just reinforced that there is great benefit in doing this.

The stories are very poignant.  My intent was really to break up the reading to do half the book the first night and read the other half during the next day, but the chapters were so short and I kept saying just one more chapter and next thing you know, I've completed the whole book.

I think the chapter that surprised me most was Chapter 5 - Work Less, Think More.  This chapter really intrigued me to do more investigation.

The letter writing chapter sounds good and something I used to do well.  Maybe I ought to bring this back to practice again?

Though there are many areas for me to improve on from what I learned in this book, I also found there were a number of things that I have learned well and am living wisely in.  This is a good reference book.

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