Review: A buffet of ideas for you to select from
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2011
I find the strength of the 52 Brilliant Ideas books I have read so far to be that they offer a buffet of ideas that you can pick and choose from as you find them useful or compelling to you. This book was no exception. I tried a few exercises that gave me different perspectives on myself, marked several exercises or passages to come back to later because they seemed useful, and simply set aside any exercises that didn't speak to me. Interestingly, one of the most useful things I did was the Johari Window, which the author mentions, but I ended up doing more research on it after struggling somewhat with parts of the exercise. It turns out that a lot of background of the Johari Window is not in the book, and she also explains it differently than most people. I think probably the difference in explanation gives the reader more nuance, but only if they look at outside information as well (or are already familiar with Johari Windows). There's a more classic version of the exercise available online here to supplement with: [...]