Literature made placebo. The power of words with a healing, rectifying, or stimulating intention. Between charlatanism and talkativeness towards conviction. If you want to undertake a new personal adventure that requires will and conviction, look to Jorge Bucay.
Because this Argentine writer has given himself to the cause of resilience and vital sublimation, a kind of practical stoicism to transform ourselves into the best of us, stripping ourselves of sins of our days such as procrastination, chronic mourning, fatalism or envy. . Fiction books that look for mirrors where to find our best reflection.
Reading self-help is neither good nor bad per se; it is neither better nor worse than other lace searches in the world. The self-help methodology is not about finding adherents for the cult, or something like that. A self-help book can be very welcome if it serves you for that behavioral or emotional improvement. Only skeptics grow like mushrooms in a society suspicious of gurus and slogans.
Still, it never hurts to get close to Bucay or the other great author of the more allegorical self-help. I refer to the also great writer with this transforming intention: Paulo Coelho.
But focusing on Bucay this time, we go there with a selection of the best of his works.
3 recommended books by Jorge Bucay
Let me tell you
One of those one-on-one conversations between two young people. A talk on an equal footing so that the concepts flow naturally and so that the examples resonate with greater intensity.
Nothing better for a young person (we can all be those young people lost in a thousand doubts during different phases of our life) than to seek a conversation with another young person (any therapist can be the same young person who has been looking for answers or ways of help for a long time).
The point is that Demián has that natural intelligence worm on the basis of his existence, doubts that can enrich or overshadow, depending on the moment.
Luckily, Demián meets Jorge, a very particular storyteller who houses brilliant stories in his imagination for every situation or doubt. It is not about Jorge giving him solutions but rather that the metaphors of each story can offer alternatives to Demián, such as different paths to be able to choose and, ultimately, be free in life.
The road to happiness
The metaphor of metaphors next to life as a train. The path is a choice but it is also doubts, shadows, looming dangers ... Do you keep walking or do you stay still? With this book Bucay closed his most recognized saga.
A volume for mundane reflection, without great philosophical theoretical spurs but impregnated with the beauty of detail and the discovery of our fears when walking, our blockages, the need to keep moving forward ...
Happiness is not a clear destination, and every path towards that happiness ends up leading us to complete unhappiness, guilt, misgivings, and perdition.
Facing dilemmas, choosing without looking back, seeking fulfillment in positive and humanizing spaces ... A fourth book that closes the saga in a brilliant and timely manner, an introspective allegory to discover the best from our subjectivity.
Love each other with open eyes
A novel, a romantic story with the reflective edges of Bucay always intentional, always moved to the most psychological resolution of behaviors and decisions. A half-written story with fellow psychologist Silvia Salinas.
Casual encounters mark very special situations in which our first attitude is reserve and a certain point of pretense. We want to show right off the bat not everything we are but the best we could be (especially if the other person catches our attention).
Summary: A strange error caused by an email server causes a meeting between a man and a woman. Robert. A bachelor who is quite a womanizer and somewhat tired of his routine life, he finds himself mysteriously involved in the exchange of messages between two psychologists who talk about love and the couple.
Little by little, Roberto will feel more and more attracted by history and will want to be part of it, leading to a fascinating situation that will culminate in a totally unexpected ending.
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