Few of the concepts touched upon are interesting but they were never full explored. It doesn’t delve deeper either on anxiety or spiritualIty, it feels more like an abstract instead of a full novel. Also, reference to previous novels, written by author, after every few pages is too much of self advertising and its not really relevant to the reading, so you do skip over it (like all the other ads).

Δεν μου άρεσε ούτε το περιεχόμενο ούτε ο τρόπος που γράφει, τον οποίο σε αρκετά σημεία βρήκα υπερβολικό κι αλαζονικό. Ανακατεύει όρους ψυχολογίας, προσωπικές ιστορίες, βιώματα ασθενών του, τον Θεό, τον Σατανά και φωνές που ακούει ο ίδιος ή κάποιος γνωστός του, ενώ αναφέρεται αδιάκοπα σε προηγούμενα βιβλία του. Ίσως, αν το διάβαζα στην εφηβεία, να το εκτιμούσα περισσότερο.. Μπα, ούτε τότε!

Ένας άνθρωπος μπορεί να κάνει απίστευτα κατορθώματα και να αποκτήσει ευρύτα τες γνώσεις, κι ωστόσο να μην κατανοεί τον εαυτό του. Τα βάσανα όμως οδηγούν τον άνθρωπο να κοιτάξει μέσα του. Αν αυτό συμβεί, τότε εκεί, μέσα του, αρχίζει να μα θαίνει.

The title led me to expect more.

1. Psychopathy is not about happiness; it is about power.
2. Hey Scotty, you just pay your dues, and leave the driving to me.
3. Lily has the gift of flowing. I have the gift of organization.

L. An education in Christianity

Good read, as in the form of usual Scot Peck's ideas and narrations.

Book is more of an extension of and possibly some repeat of his earlier work 'Road less traveled' and etc. Mostly around the book, Scots provides examples from his earlier works and repeats its explanation more or less the same way. As usual writer often highlights his experience in psychotherapy insists how it can be life changing, citing some of his clients. Never the less, most of the ideas he conveyed are very abstract, and sometimes bit convoluted i thought.

Apart, this work talks lots about spirituality and Religion, Scot did make reasonable good explanation for both of these terms, and ideas are seemingly based on Christian teachings. And he validates hims as strong believer of Christianity.

If you have read his works before, this book shall be a reasonable good read.

Sequel to the infamous Road Less Travelled, I wasn’t as captured as I was with the original. Whilst it was a great read, and I have marks and annotations on most pages, I found that there was a lack of original thought and a lot of repetition of the content from his previous work.

My favourite sections were thinking and consciousness. So many great observations and thoughtful insights. Something I know I will look back to read and flick through. Gave me a unique way to think about decision making especially when it comes to careers and life goals.

However, aspects I glanced over or didn’t read properly were all the references to Christian values and religion in relation to becoming a moral person. In my opinion, this really dated the book. Whilst the original book (it’s prequel) written in 1984 was so poignant and timeless. I found this one (written in 1997) slightly less culturally aware.

Would I recommend others to read it? Definitely yes to the original, but for this one? I would most likely say to flick through my highlighted notes. This might be a harsh assessment, but I think a truer depiction of the effect such subjective and religiously driven writing can have.

I found this book really hard to get into at first. However, after much perseverance I found that Dr Peck is very informative. This book is about thinking and now accepting popular culture. Dr Peck is a psychologist and many of his experiences with patients come through in his work. The thing that came up for me when I was reading this book was a story about a young woman who sounds much like me who suffered alot of frustration at work because most of her colleagues did not meet up to her standards. Many years ago my husband suggested that I 'make allowances' for those people who were not as fortunate to be as smart as me. At the time, I actually thought that he was helpfully reminding me not to be so 'perfect'. Now I see it in this book, that because I continually educate myself and love to learn new things, there is an art to having more compassion for people and getting to understand them better.

Fantastic book about spiritual growth
I firmly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good psychological reference.
Well written and with great depth.

It's a lot like reading a text book, but I'm intrigued by Peck's exploration of Christianity, responsibility, and personal growth.

Great quotes. It was a bit hard to read due to the summary style of the book. The author has definitely got a firm grasp on the major issues that affect spirituality and understanding in our cultures today.