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Originally Posted by ImOpen  This will probably sound very harsh. I'm sorry for that, I don't mean to. Hard to express yourself in a different language...
Anyway... you are writing about raising your awareness, about your purpose in life and so forth. You are writing about personal development - but still you seem to neglect an area of your life constantly - the "Cultural Pavlina". 
Have you even read Dostoyevsky? Strindberg? Blake? Faulkner? Voltaire? Rimbaud? Do you know a van Gough when you see one and how many times have you been outside of the US? Have you seen the children dying in the smelly streets of India and have you seen the sun go down over the Mediterranean. |
It's a bit harshly worded I think you may have a point. I myself haven't read Dostoyevsky and those other authors but I think they would greatly enrich my mind. However, keep in mind that you do not know whether he has read these books or not. He reads a LOT (several books a week if I remember well from his articles). So it may well be that he actually is familiar with all these works.
Also, he is just writing down what has worked for him. He is sharing his collected wisdom with others so that they can benefit from it as well. I see no reason to criticize that, I feel rather thankful.
And "for smart people" is good, it keeps the stupid away. ...Well, maybe
Francis