We’ve had a number of people tell us that among The Go-Giver’s five laws, law #4, Authenticity, was “clearly the pivotal law, the one that really slammed home.”
On the other hand, some have said it was law #5, the Law of Receptivity, that really stood out. “The other four laws were polished wood,” confided one interviewer, “but that last law? Man, it gave me splinters!”
Yet still others have homed in on the Law of Value, the very first law in the book, as being the key point of the story. Others, on the other hand . . .
I bet you know where I’m going with this.
Our friend Stefanie West Allen recently made this observation: “This book is kind of like a Rorschach. All books are, I suppose, but this one perhaps more so.”
Which do you see as the pivotal point of the story?
What an honor to be mentioned on THE GO-GIVER blog!
Dear Mr. Mann,
Actually, all the steps, or laws, are “pivotal” to the point of the story. More than that, I’d say they are vital to the story as well. Some laws may be “easier” to do than the others and you may get the success you want in life without having to do all five laws but doing all five laws, and doing them from your heart, you are guaranteed success.
Now, if I had to choose one law over the other, one which would be “pivotal” to the story, however, I would choose the law of value. It is my feeling that if you give more value for the work that you do, and you do it with an open heart, the other laws naturally fall into place . . . On the other hand, I feel a person who is not willing to give more value, or is unable to do so from an open heart but is always looking for “what’s in it for me. . . .” the other steps/laws will be that much harder to grasp and their success will be an unrealized dream . . .
Best wishes to you and Mr. Burg and continued success with The Go-Giver.
I remain,
Ruthann Schumann
John, I think the law that is pivotal IS the law you’d forgotten. When we read any system for success it is human to say “But I’m already doing a lot of that and I’m not getting stratospheric success.” So the question isn’t how much ARE you doing – it is what part are you NOT doing. Getting MOST of the pieces of the jigsaw in the right place doesn’t make a pretty picture. Recognizing the missing pieces and discovering where they go is what makes success complete.
Hi, Dixie! I’m a wee bit confused about your comment. You say, “John, I think the law that is pivotal IS the law you’d forgotten.”
The law I’d forgotten? Which law do you mean? And when did I forget it? (I forget.)
Oh dear – was I too impassioned to be clear? You forgot nothing – but for each person the most important law to remember is the one of the 5 we’d forgotten or never learned. Me, for instance – I had forgotten #2 and never learned #5 and so they are pivotal to ME. So to be a true Go-Giver and achieve stratospheric success, you have to first recognize what you aren’t doing. Then you have to recognize where you can be even better in applying all of the laws. But some people will say the pivotal law is the one they think they are BEST at, and then wonder why the universe isn’t ponying up.