Quick note: be careful about which books you receive as a gift. If I had received the biography of Gandhi when I was a kid, I could have studied diplomacy or something alike. An art book would probably have turned me into a painter. The truth is that right now I am questioning every stone over which I have built my life: security, a job, money, a big car. I am starting to think that all the abilities that I have developed throughout my life are useless for the goal of pursuing happiness, and they are only good for obtaining money and providing to my family. Happiness, in my case, means more than money, simply because I've learned that the lower levels of Maslow's pyramid are not going to make anyone happy (google Maslow). I guess you need to keep on learning in order to finally reach the top (self actualization), but the problem is that when you start developing your skills, you really do not know very well the direction where this pyramid you are building is leading you!, so you loose your focus with less valuable material that later in life does not help you go towards the top (of the pyramid, of course, which might not be the top of success for many people)
The MBA is changing my life because the books I have to read shake my groundings and make me question them. I took today a book from my personal library, one of those books you buy to read one day, titled: "School of business" from R. Kiyosaki. It's a very light book, but when I took it I remembered I had received a copy of the first book of a series written by the same author, from a friend who was CFO for a medium size company. That happened about 15 years ago. I could not find that book again, I must have passed it on, but it certainly changed my life. I am sure that the person who gave it to me did not imagine it would do it.
