What is it about the number seven that has such a hold on us? Why are there seven deadly sins? Seven days of the week? Seven wonders of the world, seven colors of the spectrum, seven ages of man, and seven sister colleges? Why can we hold seven numbers or words in our working memory–but no more? Author Jackie Leo explores everything about this mystical, magical, useful, and fun number in her new book.
SEVEN REASONS YOU NEED THIS BOOK
- SEVEN is a tool to improve the quality of your life. It is a way to define time, synthesize ideas, and keep your mind performing at top speed in an era of distractions.
- SEVEN is culturally significant. It pops up everywhere, structuring our world in ways so fundamental, we notice them only when we pause to look. Across the ages and across cultures, the number has acquired a huge scientific, psychological, and religious significance.
- SEVEN is intriguing. Why, out of hundreds of recipes in a cookbook, do people return to the same seven, over and over? Why, when asked to choose a number between one and ten, does such a large majority of people choose seven? Why does it take seven rounds of shuffling to obtain a fully mixed deck of cards?
- SEVEN is influential. You’ll learn how the number seven shapes our thinking, our choices, and even our relationships.
- SEVEN is practical. Throughout this book are Top Seven lists covering the best ways to get someone’s attention, to build your personal brand, and to put yourself in the path of prosperity and good luck.
- SEVEN is fun. You’ll encounter surprising facts, intriguing puzzles, and hilarious anecdotes.
- SEVEN is wise. You’ll hear stories about the meaning of seven from Mehmet Oz, Sally Quinn, Liz Smith, Christina Ricci, and many others.
Artfully designed and full of enough insights to keep you engaged in conversation at the water cooler for years, SEVEN will provoke, enlighten, and amuse.
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I pick #7
Mitz´s last blog ..I should be writing is having end of 2009 contest
I would have to say that one of my favorite numbers is 28!
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No need to enter me, babe. I’m dropping in to say thanks for the e-mail. I’ve got this posted at Win a Book.
(btw, my favorite number is 515. If you know why, drop me an e-mail and I’ll give you a free copy of The Demo Tapes.)
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my favorite # is 777 !!!!!
515 is represented as “The Messenger of God” ’s number…
I read that 777 represents the “number [that] joins together the principles of the man, 700, the cosmic plans, 70, and their image in the Archetype, 7, according to R. Allendy. It is the universal organization, 7 + 7 + 7 = 21, the general evolution.” & “In esotericism, 777 means that virgin spirits (those to which God gave the life with the mission to rise towards the Creator, until to absorb themselves again in Him) will know 777 incarnations during seven revolutions that the wave of life accomplishes around the seven globes of the seven world periods. The symbolism of this number is therefore the ascension of the soul through the physical body.”
I found this about 28: “The Dr. Allendy observes that the number 28 combines cyclic times: 4 and the evolutionary times: 7. “It is the spiral of the evolution unfolding among the perpetual cycles of the nature; it is the being progressed in the permanent oscillations of the Cosmos”. From the mystical viewpoint, this number shows the Initiate, 8, bringing back the antagonism of the cosmic force, 20, to the unit – 2 + 8 = 10.” AND “Second perfect number because this number is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts.”
In Kabbalah, there is this thing called the Gematria, where every letter in the Hebrew alphabet is assigned a numeric value. When you add up the letters in prayer (t’filah), you get 515.
In Hebrew, the word for singing is the same as poetry. (Shirah)
Add up Shirah. 515.
Poetry. Singing. Prayer.
515.
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Thanks to all who participated! The randomly selected winners are: Misty LaBean, Mitz, Benita G., Wanda Bergman, and Mozi Esmes Mommy.
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Outstanding new seven book on the block
Number seven has fascinated me for years. As a fellow author and septaphile, I am delighted about the publication of “7, the Number for Happiness, Love and Success,” by Jackie Leo. I may be one of the first seven people in the world to comment publicly about Leo’s seven book which is an intriguing and thought-provoking literary exploration of the wondrous world of seven.
I applaud Leo and her publisher TWELVE for recognizing the cultural, mystical and scientific influence of the number 7, as I did in my book “7: The Magical, Amazing and Popular Number Seven,” which Aventine Press published this past March. http://www.theSevenBook.com . I was in touch with Jackie Leo a couple days ago for the first time and her kind words of praise about my 7 book mean a lot to me. The feeling is mutual x7 for me. It’s a pleasure to be her new 7 friend.
Here are my seven favorite things about Jackie Leo’s collection of sevens: 1. “Seven Siblings” story about Kristin van Ogtrop’s (editor of Real Simple) father as one of seven children 2. Striking book cover with a royal gold image of my favorite number seven 3. Feast of the Seven Fishes celebrated in Southern Italy 4. “Odds on Seven” piece about dice rolls 5. Walter Anderson’s “Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment” 6. Delightful “Counting on Seven” piece by Washington Post writer Sally Quinn 7. “Seven on Seinfeld”-a 7 factoid which I also enjoyed including in my book about seven which describes Seinfeld’s “The Seven” episode #123.
I wish Jackie Leo huge success with the launch of her book on 7 December. I regard our two books as complementary because they each document and validate the significance of the number seven throughout recorded history. If you’re a septaphile-a fan of the popular number seven-no book collection about the number 7 would be complete without buying both “7″ by David Eastis ( http://www.theSevenBook.com ) and “Seven” by Jackie Leo ( http://www.SeventheBook.com/ ).
Seven cheers to Jackie Leo from David Eastis, author of “7″-”7:The Magical, Amazing and Popular Number Seven” published by Aventine Press in March 2009.