The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Don Miguel Ruiz

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Drawing on ancient Toltec wisdom, Don Miguel Ruiz distills a powerful code of conduct into four deceptively simple agreements: be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, and always do your best. The book reveals how self-limiting beliefs inherited from society create needless suffering and offers a practical path to personal freedom. It has sold over 15 million copies in the United States alone.

Published:: 1997
Pages:: 160

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In this collection, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom references 4 other books.

It draws on Man's Search for Meaning, Think and Grow Rich and The Tao Te Ching.

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Ruiz's framework for breaking free from domestication and fear-based agreements shares Frankl's conviction in Man's Search for Meaning that humans retain the freedom to choose their response to any circumstance.

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

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The Four Agreements' emphasis on the creative power of personal beliefs and spoken word parallels Napoleon Hill's central thesis in Think and Grow Rich that thoughts become reality through sustained conviction.

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Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

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Ruiz's teaching that assumptions and attachments create suffering aligns with the Tao Te Ching's counsel to release fixed ideas and flow with the natural order of things.

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The Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

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The fourth agreement, 'always do your best,' connects to Csikszentmihalyi's concept of Flow, where full engagement with the present task dissolves self-consciousness and produces optimal experience.

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Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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