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Book Reviews Blog - thebroadroom.net: The Identity Code by Larry Ackerman
The Identity Code by Larry Ackerman
posted by TheBroadroom.Net,
Monday, April 24, 2006
at 12:28 PM (Pacific)
Reviewed by: Raphaëlle
The Identity Code is not your run of the mill self help book. It's about finding your place in the world. That doesn't necessarily mean completely changing your life. It just means finding your purpose, that one thing that will make you genuinely, deeply happy. It's what your whole life will be about. You might need to change jobs or you might just need to infuse your purpose into your work. Some relationships will fall to the side and new ones will form. All natural life events. The Identity Code is a method, eight questions, that are meant to help you choose the right path for yourself.
These eight questions form the main part of the book. Each question gets a chapter all its own with a concrete example of someone who has or hasn't answered the question, explanations of what the question and its answer entail, and exercises designed to help you answer the question. The exercises are simple and straightforward. Don't be mistaken though. These aren't silly exercises. They take time and reflection. They require one to take a couple hours to do them properly. In fact, the whole process of answering the eight questions can take years, a lifetime even, but each little discovery made along the way is enough to improve your life.
There are a couple things I appreciated very much about this book. First of all, it has no easy answers. There are no categories into which you are expected to fit, no multiple choice questions. Everything is open ended. Second of all, though the author mostly talks about adults, it's also meant to be used by teenagers. There are some mentions of school work and teenage issues.
This book isn't meant to deal with any psychological issues you might have such as loss. It is meant to help you figure out where you are going, what you want to do, who you are basically. As such, this a very good method and I recommend this book to anyone who feels the need to find their place in the world.
 
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