| Title | : | The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change |
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| ISBN | : | 1119430860 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781119430865 |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 |
| Publication | : | First published June 26, 2019 |
Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and feel like a pot of boiling hot water. The environments we find ourselves in can change, weaken, or harden us, and test who we truly are. We can be like the carrot that weakens in the pot or like the egg that hardens. Or, we can be like the coffee bean and discover the power inside us to transform our environment.
The Coffee Bean is an inspiring tale that follows Abe, a young man filled with stress and fear as he faces challenges and pressure at school and home. One day after class, his teacher shares with him the life-changing lesson of the coffee bean, and this powerful message changes the way he thinks, acts, and sees the world. Abe discovers that instead of letting his environment change him for the worse, he can transform any environment he is in for the better. Equipped with this transformational truth, Abe embarks on an inspirational journey to live his life like the coffee bean. Wherever his life takes him, from school, to the military, to the business world, Abe demonstrates how this simple lesson can unleash the unstoppable power within you.
A delightful, quick read, The Coffee Bean is purposely written and designed for readers of all ages so that everyone can benefit from this transformational lesson. This is a book and message that, when read and shared, has the power to change your life and the world around you. You just have to decide: are you a carrot, egg, or coffee bean?
The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change Reviews
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A simple book to recharge and motivate us.
We need to recharge our battery 🔋 before we dry up.
Keep our motivational level positive from time to time. -
“Life is often like a pot of very hot water. It can be a harsh, stressful, and difficult place. You will find yourself in environments and facing conditions that test who you truly are, and can change, weaken, or harden you if you let them.”
(Just pick up this short book now.)
“We don’t have to allow the negativity on social media to influence us. Instead, we can positively influence social media, one person at a time.”
I mean wow. Because it told me the basic truth about how we adults and children alike are so biased to be negative and play the blame games everyday and how we are playing along with it instead of focusing on the solutions and making our lives better.
Yes, such books say the basic thinks we all "know" of or are aware about. But reminders, duh! And making you think or just "see".
Stay away from such books if you're a carrot. Or an egg. (Try to know what it means from the book).
But be a coffee bean. Not because we run on caffiene and negativity in real life. But the metaphorical coffee bean for the metaphorical life we all aspire of.
In short, read this book. It's short. It doesn't matter if you're 8 or 80 or any age in between these numbers. This book is for everyone.
The illustrations are awesome! -
A short and quick read my boss loaned me seeing how much I enjoy reading in our office down time. Fairly stoic in its philosophy. You can control your reactions to the circumstances around you.
While everything was tied up neatly with a little bow I appreciated that this was a modern fable. A story method I feel we've moved well away from societally. So the bow tying and lesson is obviously the point.
Not super in depth but a nice little reminder that we control how we grow and develop as we move through life. -
I liked the concept and it’s a quick read, but looking for some concrete ways to become a coffee bean. It’s all very good to explain what one is,etc. but how do I get there? Feel like this could have been explored more and book is repetitive.
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Cute, quick read. Shallow and predictable, rather than insightful, though.
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It's been a few weeks of self-employment now, and well... it's lonely. The part where one stares at a blank wall in complete silence, waiting for something to happen can get a bit overwhelming.
After some days of coming to grips with this new life, I chanced upon a delightfully positive book.
In this fable about a stressed and troubled boy called Abe, Jon Gordon brings to life three responses to 'boiling water' one is faced with:
1. To be like a carrot – growing soft and weak due to fear and hopelessness
2. To be like an egg – allowing your heart to get hardened by adversity
3. To be like a coffee bean - transforming your environment to leave it fragrant and appealing
It's a small but powerful message, and the only gripe I have is that it doesn't quite explain the 'how'. (Maybe, Damon West's book will do that.) Nevertheless, this is a quick read and one that drives an important message - of being positive and not allowing the environment to change oneself for the worse.
In today's hate-filled world, we need to find inspiration to create positive change. Find a cause, believe in it, and work on it.
So, will you be a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? -
Loved this book! A quick read but more powerful than you could imagine. I have read almost all of Jon Gordon's books which are all amazing. This one is different, but just as impactful if not more. Having also read Damon West's memoir and knowing the backstory behind this tale, makes it even more worth the read. The illustrations make the story come alive. You will not be disappointed if you purchase this book, and will have a different outlook, on dealing with the blows that life throws your way.
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Disclaimer: I read this because my principal was considering it as a "professional read" for my staff. I would in reality give this maybe 2 stars if I had just picked it up on my own (although, I probably wouldn't have chosen it on my own) just because it is SO not my taste. I get the idea behind, and I like the message, I just don't get how someone could say, "yes, write a 90 page book that is really on 15 pages of text about an allegory" and expect it to be a bestseller. And yet, here we are.
Anyway, I digress.
For what this is, it's an OK book. The main point is to infuse the reader with optimism and a sense of the power of positivity. (be the coffee bean-change your environment, don't let it change you) BUT, all it is is a story of someone who every time they have troubles, reminds themselves, "be the coffee bean." As someone who would want something practical and TANGIBLE, this is not it. As a read for staff on the importance of staying focused, it's OK. As a practical guide to staff development, it is not.
Overall, this is a "MEH" review from me. -
A modern day fable about a stressed-out and troubled young man called Abe. The moral of the story is in life we can't always change the situation, but what we can change is how we react to it. In this enlightened tale Gordon brings to life three very different responses to 'boiling water'.
#1. To be like a carrot – allowing too much of the water in and becoming soft and easily breakable.
#2. To be like an egg – allowing none of the water in and becoming hardened by the negativity and adversity.
#3. To be like a coffee bean - transforming your whole environment to leave it fragrant and appealing.
In today's hate-driven world, we need to find the inspiration to create positive change. When faced with a difficult situation - what do you choose to be like? The Carrot, The Egg or the Coffee Bean? -
A simple, but powerful message about ow each of us sees the world and our place in it!
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"Coffee bean" is memorable metaphors and a story to which everyone can relate. A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change"
درسی ازتاب آوری و تغییر نرم به سبک دانه قهوه در تلاطم آب جوشان
(در مقایسه با هویج و تخم مرغ)
Life can be tough.
There are three basic responses in the face of adversity. We can represent each of them with the way an object reacts to being placed in boiling water, which is a metaphor for being surrounded by difficult environments or circumstances.
The first response is to act like a carrot – growing soft and weak with emotions like fear and hopelessness.
The second is to act like an egg – growing hard-hearted.
The third is to act like a coffee bean – transforming the environment or circumstances around us and making the most of them.
You can let your environment change you, or you can change your environment.
In this book, you’ll learn
how to escape feelings of hopelessness and resignation;
how to avoid becoming bitter and heartless; and
how to stay positive and overcome any form of adversity – all by harnessing the power of the coffee bean!
Favourite quote "You will know that the power inside you is greater than the forces outside you..."
(blinkist)
پ.ن.
که عشق آسان نمود اول ولی افتاد مشکل ها -
Positive thinking is wonderful. However, there must be thinking involved. This is maybe the most ill-thought through metaphor for adversity ever created. According to this, one must not be like a carrot or an egg in boiling water - both of which come out edible and nutritious (in the metaphor there is something wrong with a food being edible, evidently). And in the case of the carrot, it also flavors the water. Find me a broth on the shelf at the store not made with carrots (seriously, though, find me one - carrots make me itch). Be like the coffee bean, which changes its environment to make it into delicious coffee and then . . . is thrown away. But you can compost with it, I guess - so at least it's useful garbage? The lesson then is change the world around you for the better at the cost of yourself? Don't get me wrong, I love coffee - I just don't want to identify with the part of it I toss in the trash.
Honestly. Obviously with someone as prolific as Jon Gordon they can't all be winners, but this shouldn't have made it out of the drafts. -
A really simple book with a great lesson. Took me about 20 minutes to read it.
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Preachy and not very substantial. Interesting metaphor. Having read many student essays, I can tell when someone is stretching things out. Not remotely worth the ~$10 price tag.
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The metaphor is ok, but the book doesn't say anything else. It might as well say 'Abe had a mantra and every time life was hard he repeated the mantra and things got better.'
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This book is amazing! It is a short, easy read, but packed with so much goodness! Life lessons are tough for sure but this book will give you the inspiration on how to get through all the things! I passed this little gem onto the President of my company and she loved it so much that she is now having all our staff read it as well.
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Short, powerful and memorable book reminding us that the circumstances around us shouldn’t come to define us.
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Total bullshit and useless
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A small book that focus on creating positive change by using a small steps.
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Perhaps my favorite part about this book is that this is a book has so far engaged a high school student (one that I have been incredibly worried about as his teacher), including that this is the first book that he has finished in several years.
It is a fable that demonstrates that life can be incredibly challenging and gives a metaphor (using a coffee bean) or how someone can overcome struggle and create positive change.
I am pretty sure that from now on I will look at coffee beans, carrots, and eggs in a different way. -
Simple, quick read, but great! When life is a hot pot of water, don’t be a carrot and get weakened (give up, quit) by your environment, don’t be an egg and get hardened (negative, anger, numb), but be a coffee bean and transform your environment. This can go for all of life’s challenges.
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A fast and positive look at life. It can be hard at times, but this is definitely a great way of thinking of things that may be challenging. Now to remember this during difficult times. I think I will reread and absorb it all again.
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Quick read and great object lesson. I have actually used it in talks with a few people since reading it.
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A very quick ready with a big impact. I enjoyed this quick read however I do wish it was a more indepth explanation of how to be the coffee bean.
I still believe it should be one of my recommended reads. Great for a one sitting read! -
Simple and short. ☕
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Wonderful quick and easy read for great advice for someone of any age
