In my book Cenizas de prosperidad – Más allá del desarrollo personal (Ashes of Prosperity: Beyond Personal Development), as the title suggests, I go beyond personal development. After reading dozens of good personal growth books, I noticed years ago that they tend to repeat the same concepts, and that some mix the universe with magical thinking and a whole lot of hot air.
I am passionate about everything to do with personal development, but I don’t buy magical thinking or many of the mistaken ideas that often turn up in these books. That is why I have done something different, full of common sense and realism, drawing on the foundations of psychology and neuroscience, but above all on common sense.
This book won’t change your life, because the one in charge of changing your life is you. But I do hope it helps you make that change and that it changes the way you see many of the things that happen in your life, giving you the chance to bring about important changes, without magical thinking or cosmic energy, and without getting the universe to conspire for you.
The book’s main message is that we are absolutely responsible for our own lives, and that everything depends on our decisions to a degree most people can’t even imagine.
A different structure
This book doesn’t follow the structure of most personal development books, where sometimes the first chapter is designed to hook you and then the book loses steam. The first chapters (which are necessary) open up a wide range of topics that are answered later on. Chapter 3, for example, tells how I met the person who changed my life in every way.
What are the first readers saying?
I have to admit I was curious to know whether I had got it right in mixing autobiographical events with the concepts we try to explain. So far, judging by the first readers, it seems we have. So all I can say is: thank you!
