The artist looks through a lens and sees a sculpture. The engineer sees a mechanism to carry out a given utility. The politician sees a representation of the working man. Each vocation to a certain degree, conditions a person to view the same object with a lens innate to their way of thinking. Typically, books of this nature succeed in realms that can define the lens with which they communicate. This to me represents a complication and a simplicity that simply does not reflect that multi-disciplinary complexity of the world we live in. To that end, I asked myself how many messages have been distorted by these efforts. How does perception and proportion distort our image of life? The market today is oversaturated with these offerings. They are relatively easy to produce and they have started to overlap in content. New offerings that actually contribute to the body of knowledge in this area are scarce and the ideas displayed therein have become rote. Where does that leave those who need a challenge in this marketplace? This book does not try to convince you of anything. It simply asks you to muster a few hours of mental agility, enough to challenge yourself to move in and out of various disciplines, concepts, and technical and casual language, in the hopes of making you think about how we think about our daily negotiated lives. | Negotiation Lifestyle by Akiva Stern, Paperback | Indigo Chapters