How to Win by Quitting

by Jerry Stocking

Book Overview

How much of your day is consumed by what you perceive you have to do? What can you do to get out from under it all? QUIT! It's the one choice we never seriously consider. Quit something you feel you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962959359
• ISBN13: 9780962959356
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Moose Ear Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

How to Win by quitting or Lose by quitting?

Does quitting mean running away from your house, your loved ones, your job - into a dense forest with sticks, stones and only left with a conversation about yourself that will break your bones. It would seem that this is not the game. It would seem that if we were to "try quitting" and sitting, whether on a beach or the woods, we would be chased by ghosts of fear, perhaps hatred or even envy, perhaps even more. Who knows? You know I guess, since you may have been you for a while, if you are lucky. No, sitting somewhere distant might not mean that you have really been quitting - THAT WOULD BE TOO EASY! Could you quit and still live a life. Love and live in ecstacy. This is the message I am reading from this book. I might be way off, but how ingrained are some "stuff of our lives" DO YOU DARE FIND OUT?!? If so....read on and read the book.

If you "get it", you'll love it

Quite succinctly, Jerry exposes the games, rituals and numbing mind loops that are so pervasive in society. He allows you to almost see what isnt seen to reveal the many ways our minds, society and customs shape us with and without our permission. When you can wake each day (not by being perfect) and be more cognizant to the various ways we move about and interract and have the choice to quit playing many of these "games" for lack of a better word, then we start playing ones of our own choosing and allowing ourselves to even let go of those. How to win by quitting opened up my eyes to things I may have known a little bit about before, but it did it in such a way as it now allows me to take action sooner and see things for what they are for me now... Thank you Jerry

Brilliant

This book is really all about games and, in my opinion, it's one of the most important books written. There are basically three levels at which one can approach games: 1)unconsciously, in which case you are like a robot with no choice; 2) consciously, in which case you can make up your own rules; and most winners usually operate on this level; or 3) you can decide not to play. And you really can do that. Someone on the unconscious level can never understand that you can quit games, so if you're not ready for that, then perhaps this is not the book for you.However, if you're ready for the next step in your life, a step toward waking up, then this is a great book with which to begin.

Deep, Funny, Wonderfully Unconventional

Jerry Stocking has written the essential survival guide for our busy times. In reading and re-reading his book, I have been constantly shocked at the practically of his message. I am compelled to wonder: Whose life have I been living? "Quitting" isn't about giving up responsibility. It is teaching us the truest essence of response-ability: the ability to respond. Through the letting go of what I perceived that I "had" to do, I have come much closer to what I truly want. My "ability to respond" has become more flexible, more creative than I ever thought possible. Not bad for 272 pages.

Controversial, Revolutionary, Recreational,Transformational

Mr. Stocking has written in a very entertaining and practical way about living a life that can dramatically increase accomplishment and enjoyment for individuals and society. He clearly explains how and why "quitting" is essential to re-creating a life without self-imposed constraints or limitations.He walks the reader through the process to show what is possible as we quit playing the "game" of life, as it is currently defined. He makes a good case to show that only by leaving behind the old programmed way of being can we begin to realize the incredible potential that exists within each of us.Variations of this message have been written about by many others. "How to Win by Quitting" takes it to a higher level. This book acts as a practical guide with real life examples for easing the leap of faith that is necessary in order to achieve the potential that exists on the other side of the self-imposed rules most of us live by every day.