By Don Miguel Ruiz
The four agreements are:
- Be impeccable with your word
- Don’t take anything personally
- Don’t make assumptions
- Always do your best
Those are all good enough. I have no objections to those agreements. The rest of the text around it didn’t add anything for me. Talk of “black magic”, societal expectations as a parasite, and the notion of 2 year olds as the ideal, free people didn’t sit well with me. It was fortunately very short. I listened to it over one session on the stairs and the following breakfast. I’m not sure that I would have made it through otherwise. It’s a book that I’ve heard referenced many times, so I wanted to see what it was about. I did. I don’t expect that I will come back to it.