The Acorn Principle

Know Yourself, Grow Yourself

De: Jim Cathcart

Narrado por: Jim Cathcart

Self-awareness - knowing your nature, your abilities, and how you react to people and situations - may well be the greatest life-management skill you can have. The Acorn Principle is a guide to doing a complete "life checkup" that will help you pinpoint your talents and strengths. Nurturing those strengths is the key to the success you've always wanted but didn't know how to attain. By listening to this audiobook and doing the simple exercises, you'll learn things about yourself that you and most people don't even suspect.

You will learn:

• Why some people attract you and others repel you
• How to predict your instinctive reactions to various situations to understand what circumstances you thrive in and why
• Where your intellectual blind spots are
• Why you like and dislike certain things and how to use that knowledge to motivate yourself
• Who are the most influential people in your life and how to connect with them and others more effectively
• How to control your simple daily actions in such a way that you develop new abilities and continually grow a better life

The potential to live the life of your dreams exists within you. The more you explore your talents, your relationships, and the patterns in your life, the more readily you will be able to tap into those potentials. A more fulfilling and meaningful life is possible for you without changing your nature; it will come from discovering who you already are. The mighty oak sleeps within you...right now.

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I think this book is good for people undestanding

This book is about understanding yourself, but it is also about understanding others, because once you understand how other people are ticking like yourself, then you know how to apeal to them and motivate them. The motivation is inside of them, it is not coming from outside. So you need to understand what is their internal, and then use it to motivate them.

It gives you the metaphor of an Acorn which comes to be a big oak tree.

How would the person I would like to be do the things I’d like to do? so in the same way, instead of thinking like the Acorn seed, you need to start to think what the big oak tree will do, and then do it, so you will develop into a big oak tree. It will have big roots, so you know you need to develp roots... etc...

He also tell you that some courses tell you be a big red maple tree, but if you are an oak tree it will not help you, because it is not what you are naturally. So this is why it is important to know yourself as an oak tree, and then think what the oak tree would do?

Chapter 1 is very nice.

Chapter 14 to chapter 17 he talks about the different values that are inside in each person that you can use to motivate him.
THIS IS SUPER USEFUL and SUPER IMPORTANT as a LIFE SKILL !!! YOU MUST MASTER IT.

THIS RELATES TO THE GOLF PERSUASION TECHNIQUE of my brother.

in chapter 38 he gives the person of the "think like the person you want to become, think like the oak tree".

He also have a video recording of this, where he tells you that you can't become an oak tree with a Acorn thinking, you must think like an oak tree.