Title The Four Agreements

Author Miguel Ruiz

Year Published 1997

Kind of Book Self-Help

How strongly I recommend it 5/10 

My Impressions I read this book many years ago—before I started taking notes on the books I read, so my impressions of it probably aren't fair, but I remember really not liking it and thinking it said nothing terribly insightful, so I haven't gotten around to rereading it. It is of course possible that 24 year old me was too dumb to pick up what this book was putting down.

Date Read circa 2014

Practical Takeaways

Big Ideas

• Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system

• 95% of the beliefs in our belief system are not true

• We suffer because we believe all the lies

• We abuse ourselves more than anyone else abuses us

• We don't accept ourselves

Because

• We don't measure up to our own ideal