The Three Chapters per week series: The Total man By Dan Benson; A Man of passion and destiny: David by Charles R. Swindoll, How to talk to anyone anytime anywhere by Larry King

HI GUYS
I’m glad to be here; it’s my first time here by the way and it feels well....like I jus arrived a new city and I don't know anywhere. Anyways it great being here and I want to specially thank my guy @stevenson7 for introducing me to this community. Because of you guys I’m in a position where I have to read at least one
chapter or at least twenty-five pages of a book almost everyday in a week so as to have something to talk about during our weekly hive book club meetings. I'm so sorry I missed the last two meetings @macchiata I promise I will make the next one on Saturday

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This post will cover the three books I am currently Reading cause sadly I don’t usually finish a before I start another one. That’s why for the next couple of weeks I will be discussing each chapter of these three books until I am completely done with them then I would give a more comprehensive review of each of them separately but until then let's enjoy the three of them together.They are
The Total man by Dan Benson

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A man of passion and destiny: David by Charles R. Swindoll

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How to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere by Larry King

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. If you look closely you'll notice they are all non-fiction, self-help books and that’s because recently I’ve been looking for ways to improve myself, my mind and my lifestyle. I’m trying to unlearn and relearn a lot things about life, purpose and meaning. Literally that's almost all I a m currently about. If you could see my YouTube feed, self-development content makes up for slightly less than 50 percent of what I watch, that's how I came across Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. I think maybe it's cause of my age and the responsibilities and the choices I have to make. Don’t get me wrong I’m not old, I’m still very much a youth but I feel like I am just discovering life anew, faced with a limitless amount of options, challenges, desires and needs, responsibilities and I just can’t make sense of all of it. It feels really quite overwhelming sometimes and that’s why I’m looking for answers, practical, applicable answers. I’m trying to write my own story, one step at a time, one day at a time, one letter at a time. That’s where I am, that’s what I’m all about

That being said let us begin my lessons so far
1.The Total Man by Dan Benson

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So I started reading this book the beginning of this week because like I said I’m at this point in my life where I am all about discovering myself. I spotted it in my Dad's library collection and I felt like it must have given him a lot of insight on how to live life as a man properly when he was a youth, insight which I really need now
This books helps me transition from being a boy into being a man and I dear say it is a tough, long lasting experience especially because of the distractions that surround me as a young boy.. man.. guy.. dude I don’t know. It’s so easy to lose focus especially with everybody having an opinion about you except you. That’s where this book comes in to clear the air. In its first chapter, Dan points out one of the most important parts about self-discovery. Paraphrasing him basically the first chapter talks about your needs as a men. I never really thought about it like that, the fact that I all the challenges I had are simply needs. Needs that are all fighting to take priority. I always thought I had only one desire and that is to be successful. Dan however breaks down the fundamentals of men needs and how it relates to our perception of success. The fulfillment of ones financial needs is assumed by almost all to be the essence of success
However Dan completely debunks this mindset. The way he puts it, we attribute our success as men to the achievement of financial power and stability and many of us go to extreme lengths to fulfil this need at the expense of the most crucial needs, the need to be whole. The first chapter does a solid job of breaking down our needs from our fulfillment needs to our survival needs to our wants and desires. He explains to us how as men especially as modern men are definition of success is us focusing our attention on meeting our wants and desires and our survival needs and not our fulfillment needs. The first and second chapters are focused on showing us the true definition of success as the fulfillment of our fulfillment needs. The things that make us complete and fulfilled as men from our spiritual needs to our physical needs to Ur mental needs to our social needs
Next we have Charles R. Swindoll

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2.A man of passion and destiny: David
By Charles R. Swindoll

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Ok I’ll be honest on this one, I have read about seven chapters of in this book but for the sake of this series, I’m going to be visiting each chapter from the top again. So this book is well... a Christian self-help book of some sort, if there is such a book genre as that. It’s the story of the life of David a biblical character in the Bibl, from the time he was first mentioned in the bible up until his death. It follows all of the events that surround him, from his victory against Goliath to his run from King Saul to his eventual succession as King until his death. The first and second chapter focus on the kind of person David was right from his youthful days. It examines his character his heart and his attitude, describing it as the kind of heart God is interested in. It focuses on the importance of having and keeping the right mindset and the right attitude towards work and relationship. Using the plot of David's we see how through God’s help anyone can achieve greatness despite the challenges and the struggles that they might. I came across also in my Dad's collection and it came to me just at the right time in life.
I’m draw to this book firstly because I am a Christian and secondly because I had a lot of questions I needed answers to especially as it pertains to figuring out the point of a good character in a world that seems to punish good people. The first two chapters helped me understand that the process and the journey of self-discovery takes time. It’s like learning to see the world anew and re-learning everything one has come to know. This book shows that struggles are only a part of the story, they aren’t the whole story and they reveal the true nature of people with time.
Next we have Larry King

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The third book I’m currently reading and quite frankly a very interesting one. It’s a book about communication and the nuances of communication by one of the most highly reputable TV and radio broadcasters of our time Larry King. The first and the second chapters seem very much like a biography about his life and his career choice but in reality they are about much more than that. They focus on the first lessons he learnt about broadcasting and talking on the radio and how the experience coupled with his talents inspired him to stick with broadcasting. As a young person who aspires to be in radio and broadcasting this book sticks out to me because from my first read, it shows itself as a book that goes beyond inspiring one beyond a career in broadcasting, but one that teaches the importance and the intricacies of everyday communication. It’s a book that’s all about speaking the truth, your truth, about hear and listening to your own voice and you projecting it in such a way that it would be listened to by others. That’s how I really feel about this book and so that’s why I think it’s going to be an interesting read.

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So guys there it is, I hope you had fun reading through it. By next week hopefully I will continue with this…… or maybe not I don’t really know but whatever the case is, by next week we will find out.. until then see you guys later.