It is a short but profound book by Paulo Coelho that explores the importance of discipline, focus, taking risks, and perseverance in achieving one's goals in life🎯. The story follows a young boy who seeks the guidance of a renowned archer to learn the art of archery🏹. I found it to be relatable to Sarvashastramayi Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, specifically, its Karma Yoga principle. The archer's lessons are not just limited to archery but can be applied to all areas of life.
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Learning a skill isn’t hard; the difficult thing is to practice it every day until you achieve the necessary precision.Take risks, fall, get hurt, and then take more risks; if your process was right, even if you fail to achieve the goal, you will learn how to improve it the next time.Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble and good moments to find your road to inner peace, but never stop either out of fear or out of joy.This book helped me understand the importance of peers in life. By taking risks, learning from our bad and good times, and practicing regularly, we can achieve any desired objective. With firm intention, enthusiasm in the action, and patience in the heart, we can make our life happy and peaceful.
There’s really no limit on who should read The Archer. Every living being is bound to act, and this book teaches how to do any human activity efficiently. You’ll really enjoy it reading if:
You care about achieving your goals and get succeed.You want to enjoy your action process and get great results.Also, it is a small book and can be read in a little time, so you’ve got no reason not to.
If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble. Use your good moments to find your road to inner peace. But don’t stop either out of fear or out of joy, the way of the bow has no end.Teaching it isn’t hard. The difficult thing is to practice it every day until you achieve the necessary precision.Seek friends who aren’t afraid of making mistakes, and who admire their peers and improve them wherever needed.Learning anything is not that hard, being consistent is hard; this is what differentiates in getting success and failure. Practice regularly and take rest in specific intervals. Don’t exhaust yourself too much. Centralize your energy only on the necessary tasks.Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Take risks, and learn what can be improved the next time.Do only what fills you with joy. Working with the presence of your soul will make you grow your inner self.Learn the best way to do that job, even if it is uncomfortable, but it is the best way to achieve the objective perfectly. It is achieved when everything redundant has been discarded.Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble and good moments to find your road to inner peace, but never stop either out of fear or out of joy.A single arrow once sank a ship, because the man who shot it knew where the wood was weakest and so made a hole that allowed the water to seep silently into the hold, thus putting an end to the threat of those would-be invaders of his village.The student learning to read reaches a point when he frees himself from the individual letters and begins to make words out of them. However, if the words were all run together, they would make no sense at all or would make understanding extremely hard; there have to be spaces between the words. Between one action and the next, the archer remembers everything. He takes other factors into account, takes rest and is content with the fact of being alive. How reading the book brought a change in my thought process and behavior.
It forced me to seek allies who work with enthusiasm, don’t fear making mistakes, and learn from them. From now on whenever I’ve got an idea I don’t fear making a mistake, instead seek it to learn from it.It brought the importance of enthusiasm and consistency to my notice.It taught me the processes involved in learning a skill or executing a task, the state of mind before initiation, in the process, and after completion.Though most of the things that I read in it were known to me because of my previous learnings, it gave me a different perspective to look at things. All human activities involve the same or similar components and processes: the intention, the enthusiasm, the process, and the goal. The power and importance of allies was noticeable as I had never focused on it before.
I’m grateful to my friend Kalunke Vyankatesh Babasaheb who suggested reading this book. When I first surfed the web for its summaries or reviews to know what was inside it, I couldn’t get much insight. Reading random pages for the first 15 minutes, I found it to be relatable to Sarvashastramayi Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, specifically, its Karma Yoga principle. This is what inspired me to read this book. I highly recommend it a read to those who’re interested in personal growth.