A Million Miles in a Thousand Years What I Learned While Editing My Life

Das Buch begann recht vielversprechend und anfangs habe ich einige Stellen markiert. Der Gedanke, dass das Leben eine (er-)lebbare Geschichte ist, die man selbst aktiv gestalten kann/sollte, ist sehr gut und regt zum Nachdenken an. Doch irgendwann driftet der Autor ins Religöse und dann in Erzählungen ab. Ich hatte das Gefühl, er habe den roten Faden ein wenig verloren. Ein paar Ideen nehme ich mit, allerdings ist das kein Buch, das man gelesen haben muss.

Amazing book on stories and life. A must-read. Also, short. Most things don't need to be long to be great.

I didn't know what this book was when I bought it in 2015. I bought the wrong book four years ago and it has been in my to be read pile since then. I planned after spring semester of school, that I would read the eight books in my to be read pile. I have one book left now! I didn't want to read this book but I was determined to complete the pile. Though, when I started reading it didn't feel like a chore. Again, I had no idea what this was about. I didn't know that God was going to be mentioned as much as He was. I'm not very big on God. Despite this, it was a nice and new perspective on God for me. This book is self help mixed with an adventurous outdoor story. I felt moved and connected but lost at times. There are many themes that felt very real, like the characters in one's life, to stop daydreaming, and showing up for life. I'm happy that I finally read this book. Maybe there is a reason why I accidentally picked it up and kept it for four years! It there was... it would be very fitting.

This book recharged my batteries and got me to take a look at my life and what I want. We DO have the opportunity to "edit" or rewrite our lives at any given point, and what a gift that is!

I love the power of a personal vision, story or goal. Whether in a job or my personal life, I feel lost without one. Donald Miller comes at this idea from a perspective I’ve never seen before - by learning how to write a good story and applying that to his own life. What could have been a dry, goal oriented book is actually a hilarious, fun, brilliantly written autobiography. I loved how Miller recognized and wrote about the littlest moments and somehow jumped around time without it seeming out of place. His take on advertising was brought back to stories too: Advertising and marketing try to sell us a story that by buying their products, OUR story will match their perfect one. If you can live a better story, there is no reason to buy into someone else’s. Find a story you want to live and live it.