Personal Development for Smart People Book

No this won't be the thousandth review of the book, because I believe there are enough of them already. However, I will post my experience with the book, more specifically so called Principles; if you would like author's description of the book, click here. If you want to read the free chapter of the book, click here.

I will tell you how I have applied the seven principles in this book, starting with the primary three, and then moving to secondary ones. So, here it goes(I suggest that you read the material in both links presented above before you continue reading this article):

• Truth: This one was by far the easiest principle to apply, probably becuase I was already good with it before I've read the book.
• Love: I haven't had much luck with applying this principle, but I successfully applied the exercises in Steve's book, connecting with the objects and close ones.
• Power: This is for me by far the hardest principle to apply, turning desires into results, but I've had some minor progress in this area, as you could read in my recent article called Challenge.
• Authority: The easiest thing to apply from this principle was from the section Orchestrate Small Rebelions. This might sound weird, but I've intentionally behaved differently than social standards require. I've made eye contact with total strangers(even though they refused to return it) and tried to tell jokes even though I have low social skills and I could embaress myself.
• Courage: This one goes without saying-I've taken small risks to stretch my courage(or Courage) capacity.
• Oneness: I've spent time in nature(by the way, our country looks like a rainforest compared to USA where you can mostly see skyscrapers, traffic lights,...-so it wasn't that hard to find natural places): I observed trees, grass, our garden, listened to birds and the feeling of oneness was great. I felt so connected to everything and everyone.
• Intelligence: This is probably the hardest principle to understand(at least for me), so I haven't had the opportunity to apply it so far.

I hope this helped you understand the seven principles of Life.