Gurdjieff, a Beginner's Guide--How Changing the Way We React to Misplacing Our Keys Can Transform Our Lives

It's easy to rate the teachings laid forward in this book as opposed to the book itself. Since this is the first book I'm reading on the topic. it's hard for me to separate the two. The book has some personal anecdotes which I didn't really find particularly interesting. He draws some references from other books, but none of them are very compelling. It would be more interesting to me if the book had some deeper parallels to other works and ideas. I recognized ideas from Buddhism, Stoicism, Adlerian psychology, Tao, etc, but I think the book failed to connect them.

So I feel the book was written by someone who's somewhat of a layman, and hence the rating 3 stars. To his credit, he claims nothing else at the outset, but that doesn't change my rating.