A review by bookreviewswithkb
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

1.5

unpopular opinion ? 🥴

um this was not it for me

i was buying in at first, feeling the words of “anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe” and “we are not good enough for ourselves because we don’t fit with our own image of perfection.”

but i started wavering at “one word can change a life or destroy the lives of millions of people” and really started struggling with “all the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally.” what about grief? or GENOCIDE? all sadness experienced is not at the hands of self-inflicted wounds. i thought many of the ideas presented were problematic and inaccurate, and really oversimplified 

i did take away a few gems but ultimately i can’t say it felt super useful for my own growth as a human