A Toltec Four Agreements Wisdom Book By Don Miguel Ruiz | Summary And Review

The Four Agreements book was written by Don Miguel Ruiz. It's a self-help book that tells us some ways to live our lives best. Here I wrote a review and summary of the Four Agreements book.

 

It has 110 pages, which is a little bit lengthy for the content that's printed on the pages of this book. You may feel like, What the heck is this? Why has he said the same thing so many times? But later you realize it has to, because the book needs more words, right? Hahaha. Just kidding. But feel slightly like that sometimes and other times it's needed to be—for those words to stay on your mind.

 

In this book, the agreements, i.e., the ways, are derived from some ancient Mexican culture named Toltec. It's given four ideas or ways that are mentioned and explained below.

 

4 Agreement

Agreement Number One: Be impeccably clear with words.
Here is a word—a bad word—that had or came from negative emotions like anger, hate, jealousy, etc. Are compared with poison, spell, and seed. Our minds are compared to fields like agriculture.

If someone or even you put a wrong or negative word in that field, that is, mind, will yield negativity.

Your ex-girlfriend says, "You are sloth at bed," if you believe that. Then it will be true, even if it's not actually true. So don't take anything personal; that's a second agreement. But I am not finished with my explanation. 

 

By first agreement, you do not use a negative word like "I'm not worthy," "I'm ugly," or "you are worthless" against you or any other person in the world. I hope you follow that, because karma is a boomerang.

 

Agreement Number Two: Don't Take Anything Personal.

Yeah. Already hint on the above passage (that's not a hint, I said it). And that's a second agreement.

 

Agreement Number Three: Don't Make Any Assumptions.

If you do that, then 78 percent of your assumptions were false. Now you may ask that 22 percent; that was extremely false. So don't assume things yourself. Just let you clarify with some questions. Learn to ask questions about things that are not clear or understandable instead of making foolish assumptions.

 

Agreement Number Four: Always Do Your Best.

Do your best; people always try to be. But not always, as meant by this fourth agreement. People focus on giving their best for some higher-priority things, like which project gives a higher profit, building their dream house, or choosing a school for their kids. But it means the best in everything, like brushing, driving, dressing, eating, sleeping, etc. 

So do your best. And another point I forgot that was: be best; just best, not more or less; just do best. Yeah, it was four agreements. And it sounds nice to me.

If you don't try your best at something, then you may feel guilt inside about that.

If you try to do more than your best level, even though things get complicated, you feel stressed, and the work is not as good as you expect, then you will not feel worried or guilty.

 

And these are the four agreements listed and detailed in that book. These look common for many guys, girls, men, women, and many others. But it's really good the way the author wrote. Just read that book.

 

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