Great Novels Empower You
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Great Novels Empower You

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Ken West

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发布日期: 2016年11月7日
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"Great novels empower you to see the world in a new and unique light. You’re able to look at, compare, and evaluate the trajectory of individual lives facing the forces of good, evil, and indifference. As with all great art, literature builds a model of life from the viewpoint of the author.

"Consider Ayn Rand’s great novel, The Fountainhead. For my money, it's also the best self-empowerment book ever written. It shows the career trajectory of six individuals: one who is true to his highest aspirations; one who sells his soul for fame; one who sells his soul to the mob; one who discovers her soul; one who loses her soul; and one who is a soul killer.

"As a reader, you are immersed in the life of these individuals, giving you a crystal clear view and understanding of how and why their lives end up as they do. Its power lies in the art of Ayn Rand’s storytelling. It brings to life what would take a library of philosophical treatises to convey. It shows us."


(From a forthcoming book, Life Zones, by Ken West.)

Ramesh Sood

I Coach Leaders to Help them Become Coach Leaders | 1100+ 1:1 coaching hours delivered through Trust conversations | NLP & Story-Telling

8 年

Ken West, I read the book in 1977 and can still reproduce some of the brief conversations between Howard Roark and Peter Keating and Dominique Francon & Peter Toohey and Gail Wynand and Sixth one? Guy Francon..is it.?. I loved and lived the book and know that it is not an easy path. I think anyone who has read The Fountainhead must go for the Atlas Shrugged.. Thanks for bringing it up. My all time favourite.. RS

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