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Last night, I read…well, OK, “read” isn’t quite the word for this book that Paul Arden wrote.
Last night I skimmed, absorbed, and considered the words and photographs that Paul Arden arranged into a book. I tried to understand what he was trying to communicate.
I’m writing because the book was interesting enough to read through, twice. See, I used that word read again…but you really just kind of skim and absorb what Arden printed.
Arden walks around his ideas: If you only make safe decisions, you can never be successful. The only way to stand out is to take risks. The decisions you make define you. Try to astonish, not to fit into the crowd.
The book was worth getting because it’s cheap.
It is also an interesting illustration of an idea by executing the idea. The book isn’t linear. It’s almost like a Buddhist text where the writer does everything except tell you what Buddhism means. You have to get it on your own.
It reminds me a little of the book Art & Fear but more intuitive, less analytical.
It’s a book that is worth ten bucks.
(If you click on the image of the book above, you’ll be taken to the Amazon page for the book. The book is actually eleven bucks, now.)
My favorite quote from the book:
DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS
When you look back there will be things you regret.You made the wrong decision.
Wrong.
You made the right decision.
Life is about decisions.
1. Am I going to have the practical or the fast car?
2. Shall I go to college or get a job?
3. Will I have wine, beer or water?Whatever decision you make is the only one you could make.
Otherwise you would make a different one.
Everything we do, we choose.
So what is there to regret?
You are the person you chose to be.
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