A distinguished essayist once wrote: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Write an essay in which you:
Describe a book that has strongly affected you.
Explain how your reading of this book changed your outlook.
Tell why you think this book had such a profound effect on you.
I am an avid book reader since my college days when I started reading fictional books out of the boredom of course books. I used to keep one fiction book as my go-to place when I wanted to take a break from regular studying. A few years back, I started reading non-fiction more and my interest leaned towards self-help and management books more.
One book which stood out for me is "The Secret" - by Rhonda Bryen, a famous book which later turned into a very famous movie as well. This book is based on the 'Law of Attraction' concept and how this concept works, what can we do to align ourselves better with the universe. This sounds superficial and when I had started, it was based on the recommendation from a close friend. I was personally going through a rough patch in my life where I needed the motivation to go on and get back to the zeal of living that I earlier had.
"The secret" talks about the mechanism on which universal energies work, based on frequencies that we emit and attract in our life. This holds true for almost everything and every living being. From our thoughts to our actions, everything is aligned with the frequencies on which we operate and if we want to attract something specifically in our lives, we need to match our frequencies with the frequency of our desire. The most interesting thing about this concept (which is misunderstood mostly) is that the frequencies that we transfer to the universe need to reflect the state that we want to attract. If we want to attract wealth in our lives and we emit the energy which represents lack of wealth, the universe will absorb the lack of wealth as a message and will align situations which will further add to the pool of lack. This concept is neither spiritual nor too practical/ realistic, it is based on pure physics if we try to put logic behind it. This touched the chord in my heart. I am a believer of Karma as well and I believe that whatever we throw in-universe, it comes back to us within this lifetime. Matching our thoughts with the frequency of our dreams resonated with my mind.
Many successful artists, businessmen vouch for 'Law of attraction' and I thought to try implementing it as well. I wanted to feel at peace and happy at that point in my life, so I practiced with peace first. My daily routine used to be imagining myself at a peaceful state and visualize how happy and content it feels. This definitely wasn't a smooth ride as it sounds. It was a deliberate practice as suggested in the book which I diligently followed. I kept moving my thoughts back to the happy place that I had created in my mind and started visualizing myself peaceful and laughing. This might sound absurd, but I did overcome that difficult time quicker than expected.
I still refer to this book whenever I feel that I need a refresher for myself. This book guided me and allowed me to change my habits, my thought process in a way that today I spend at least 10minutes daily on my goals - writing them down, visualizing them and charting an action plan to reach them. I am more confident and grounded in my actions and hard work as I understand that the universe is working with me for my interests and not against me. This book had a profound impact on the way I look at the world and possibilities now. I would recommend this book to everyone at least once.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 232, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...h peace first. My daily routine used to be imagining myself at a peaceful state and visualiz...
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Line 7, column 334, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...y and content it feels. This definitely wasnt a smooth ride as it sounds. It was a de...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, so, still, well, at least, i feel, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 108.0 33.0505617978 327% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2761.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 608.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.54111842105 5.05705443957 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9656475924 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63286088947 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480263157895 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 842.4 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 26.0 6.24550561798 416% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3548557461 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6071428571 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.35714285714 5.21951772744 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144551900746 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0471585877315 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0445906399039 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0962885703305 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388214687193 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.05 12.1639044944 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.