BOOKS AND BEYOND
Bob Buchanan is stuck. “I’ve done everything I was supposed to do in my life. I thought it would feel… different.” Join author Doug Newburg, Ph. D. as he shares with Bob The Most Important Lesson No One Ever Taught Me. With help from an Olympic Gold Medal Winner, a Grammy Award winning drummer, a world-class heart surgeon and hundreds of other elite performers, Bob finds the “feel” he had hoped for… in himself, his life, and the rhythm of the Blue Ridge. Bob learns that how he feels affects how he performs and how to use that knowledge to perform better. “The best guide for living I’ve ever read,” says one best-selling author.
Affectionately known by thousands of readers as “The Bob Book,” The Most Important Lesson No One Ever Taught Me is based on my work with high performing people. Redefine what it means to “Feel Better!” Discover a seamless fit between how you feel and how you perform, between process and results. Simply put, when you see feel as a skill, feeling better means knowing how you like to feel, how to feel it, and how feel affects performance.
Amazon shares what readers have highlighted from the book. Here are the most popular highlights:
“I learned that feeling the way I wanted to feel was my responsibility… and my freedom.”
“If we’re diligent, if we take responsibility for how we feel, we string those experiences together into a career and a life that resonates within us.”
“Each day, we have opportunities to take control of our lives, of our own fate. We need to look for them, to observe and participate, to effect change.”
“keep the desire greater than the fear.”
“The worst thing you could do is to imitate what I’m teaching you, because then you are simply replacing one structure with another.”
“Happiness is feeling the way we want to feel.”
“Living life is about asking useful questions, and then finding the answers for yourself.”
“Training prepares you to avoid surprise; education prepares you to deal with surprise.”
“Of course, but I do whatever it takes to keep my desire greater than my fear.”
“How do I want my life to feel? How will I make that happen? What gets in the way or takes it away? How do I get it back? What am I willing to work for?”
“By paying attention, I had learned to notice when I had the rhythm and when I didn’t. I had learned to make mental notes to remind myself of both. I had invested in myself to find that rhythm. By now, each day, each hour, is about making that rhythm happen, by loving, feeling, and sharing myself with others. I had learned to listen to myself as well as others.”
“The people I interviewed committed themselves to the feelings of engagement, of fulfillment, of connection with others, and the experience of the purest elements of themselves. That is the dream. They pay attention to those experiences that inherently allow them to engage the best of themselves, and they invest in those experiences and in themselves. They do the work.”
“When I lost my wonder, the ability to ask questions disintegrated into questioning, doubting myself. When I stopped asking questions, I lost the ability to learn what no one else could teach me. When I learned only what others taught me, I lost what was unique about my experience, my skills, my talent. I lost myself. ”
