Review: View With Joy And Wonder!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
Dr. Wayne Dyer says, "When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change." It is a powerful statement that has helped form the way I look at, and appreciate, my own life. And, as Tom Oberbichler tells us so clearly in his recent book, it has never been more true than when applied to the book review itself.As a former actor on stage and now a writer, and published author, myself I have found waiting for reviews so often to be an unnerving proposition, and waiting for NEGATIVE reviews even more so. Tom tells us differently. In his detailed and engaging work, Tom poses important questions to get us thinking, and then he answers them in familiar, but somehow different, ways. He causes us to look at ourselves and, indeed, the WAY we look at ourselves, differently.From this Tom guides us into a new way to look, with joy and wonder, at everything around us, including what we may have perceived as the negative. Negative reviews, like anything else, are only negative if we allow them to be so. Instead, Tom shows us how to turn feedback, even negative feedback, to our advantage, to embrace it, to include it in the positive aspects of our lives.Though short, this is a deep book with some unusual perspectives to embrace. It may take reading two or more times to get it all. But that, too, is the joy and wonder of it. It is a book that won't be tossed away after the first reading. Keep it. And keep it handy. You'll be drawn back again and again. I know I will. A "top choice" on my Kindle!