REJUVENATION AT ANY AGE
The book ” The Monk who sold his Ferrari” is a life illuminating book authored by ‘Robin Sharma’. Author Robin Sharma is a Canadian writer and was also a litigation lawyer. But he quits his career as a lawyer and became a full-time writer after that. He is known world-wide for this book (The Monk who sold his Ferrari). This book has been praised by the well-known authors and writer throughout the world. The author has published many other books other than this but, the way he has written, plotted and styled this book gave him a world-wide recognition and reverence. He himself is a lawyer and in this book as well, the narrator and the listener are lawyers. This shows that this book does not only has the purpose to encourage or motivate readers but, along with this, the purpose is to show that the reality is very much different than what we think.
This whole book revolves around the significant changes that a man has gone through by discovering, following, implementing, and acknowledging certain values. There are mainly two characters in this book, ‘Julian Mantle’ and ‘John’. Julian Mantle is the protagonist here and John is his colleague. The book is a story of a lawyer who after attaining all the materialistic things of the world, still not happy with what he has achieved in his life. It is a narrative where a person is telling about his unbelievable transformation to his colleague through different captivating and inspiring anecdotes. The two main characters are very inspiring because of their achievements in life. Both are successful and well-known lawyers. One is the narrator, and the other is the listener. Readers would feel as if like the narrator is talking to the reader of the book in the same way he is sharing is life changing journey to his friend. Before reading this book, I had never heard about this, I wish I could have read this book earlier. This was my first book which I read completely. This book is not like other self-help book where everything is mentioned straight forward and a time comes where people start feeling bored because a self-help book is not meant only to teach idealistic things, though idealistic and only good things are mentioned in it. But the most important thing is the compelling force which is required to be inculcated in the readers to implement the said thing in his/her life and get the desired outcome. This book is very engaging and interesting. Its writing style and the way of the progression of the story is so smooth less that the reader would be eager to know what happened next. The author has beautifully styled the book in such a way that it would keep the reader engaging. The book is divided into several chapters, each chapter has its own significance and teaches every life changing value with the help of mesmerizing fables that leaves a gripping impact in mind. Each chapter shows a new effective perspective to a life. This book can teach anyone that rejuvenation can happen at any age. Rejuvenation in the sense not only internally but it will also be apparent physically. People read self-help books to get motivation and encouragement to do anything but, that motivation is ephemeral in nature, that exits for a very short time. By reading this book, the reader will be able to discover the true meaning of life; the purpose of life, which is not only restricted to be successful in terms of money and power. But it is beyond achieving these things, which the reader will come to know after reading this book. This book has everything an aspiring reader wants. After the end of every chapter the author has precisely concluded everything with the help of diagrammatic references which makes a long-time impact on reader’s mind. But sometimes this may feel boring due to over exaggeration of some things and repetition of some things in the book.
I would encourage everyone to read this wonderful book. I would like to quote a statement from this book which is very inspiring ” I am more than I appear to be, all the world’s strength and power rests inside me.” This book helped me to look life from a different perspective and I am pretty sure that the same would be feel by other readers.