Andy62
07-08-2011, 03:43 PM
"The Survivor Personality" by Al Siebert PHD
I first came in contact with the author of this book Al Siebert, PH.D when he was hired to conduct a seminar by a company that I was working for. At the time I was employed by a Savings And Loan Association during the height of that crisis and also going through a lot of personal challenges at the same time. Shortly after the seminar it became obvious that the company that I was working for wasn't going to make it. That whole situation could have been a disaster, but it worked out to be one of the greatest events in my whole career and Dr Siebert's seminar definitely helped to make it so. It gave me the confidence that you only get from overcoming difficult and threatening situations. It was a very personal example of Conscious Evolution. As Dr Siebert says in the book,
" Life's best survivors do not only cope with disadvantages they gain strength from them, they thrive."
Dr Siebert started his quest by researching combat veterans and applied his unique analytical and observation skills to that area. One of the great quotes in the book is, "The Rambo types are the first to go."
This book is the ultimate "how too" book that gives you a road map for the saying that "What makes you weak can also make you strong" It is totally inline with the philosophy of Bronze Bow and Alois P. Swoboda. Some of the principles mentioned in the book include the following:
1. Ask questions: Develop a curiosity reflex
2. Increase your mental and emotional flexibility
3. Assume that change and having to work with uncertainty and ambiguity are a way of life from
now on.
4. Learn how to learn from experiences
5. Develop empathy skill especially for difficult people.
6.Resist thinking of other people as nouns: practice observing and describing what others
feel,think,say,and do.
7. Pause occasionally to silently observe what is happening.
8. Make yourself useful in all situations.
9 Take time to appreciate yourself for the useful and helpful things that you do.
10. When hit by adversity no matter how unfair it seems, follow the surviving and thriving
sequence.
Obviously I highly recommend this book. Make it your personal survival guide. You will enjoy it and it will not only make your life more successful and more exciting,but also lead you toward your destiny.
I first came in contact with the author of this book Al Siebert, PH.D when he was hired to conduct a seminar by a company that I was working for. At the time I was employed by a Savings And Loan Association during the height of that crisis and also going through a lot of personal challenges at the same time. Shortly after the seminar it became obvious that the company that I was working for wasn't going to make it. That whole situation could have been a disaster, but it worked out to be one of the greatest events in my whole career and Dr Siebert's seminar definitely helped to make it so. It gave me the confidence that you only get from overcoming difficult and threatening situations. It was a very personal example of Conscious Evolution. As Dr Siebert says in the book,
" Life's best survivors do not only cope with disadvantages they gain strength from them, they thrive."
Dr Siebert started his quest by researching combat veterans and applied his unique analytical and observation skills to that area. One of the great quotes in the book is, "The Rambo types are the first to go."
This book is the ultimate "how too" book that gives you a road map for the saying that "What makes you weak can also make you strong" It is totally inline with the philosophy of Bronze Bow and Alois P. Swoboda. Some of the principles mentioned in the book include the following:
1. Ask questions: Develop a curiosity reflex
2. Increase your mental and emotional flexibility
3. Assume that change and having to work with uncertainty and ambiguity are a way of life from
now on.
4. Learn how to learn from experiences
5. Develop empathy skill especially for difficult people.
6.Resist thinking of other people as nouns: practice observing and describing what others
feel,think,say,and do.
7. Pause occasionally to silently observe what is happening.
8. Make yourself useful in all situations.
9 Take time to appreciate yourself for the useful and helpful things that you do.
10. When hit by adversity no matter how unfair it seems, follow the surviving and thriving
sequence.
Obviously I highly recommend this book. Make it your personal survival guide. You will enjoy it and it will not only make your life more successful and more exciting,but also lead you toward your destiny.