Selective Amnesia

First impressions of “Notes to myself”

Well, not expecting anything earth shattering from the book, I must say I wasn’t disappointed – the book didn’t live up to its reviews. I thought Hugh Prather was trying too hard to put meaning into every word.

I thought, instead of letting the meaning and the thought choose the word, the word’s trying to mean something. He was trying to force fit meanings into every word – like he had to be profound in every comma and full-stop.

But a few awfully good quotes – “The key to motivation is to see how far I’ve come, and not how far I’ve to go” – “Now that I know I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me any wiser?”