Tag: self-help

Book Review: Crucial Confrontations

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior by Kerry Patterson This feels like more of a textbook than a non fiction for the layman, but that may have been because it was lent to me in a set of two, with an audio guide. It reads like a self help …

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Book Review: The Dip

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit by Seth Godin I like Seth Godin very much and had high hopes for this book. I’d heard it was his best, and I’ve enjoyed some of his other books. I hoped that by reading it I’d learn when to quit and when to …

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Book Review: Attached

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine I almost stopped listening to this in the first half hour, because it sounded like the worst of all possible pop-psych books, where it’s mostly a sales-pitch for how this wonderful new science will solve …

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Book Review: Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir by Heather Havrilesky I’ve really enjoyed Havrilesky’s advice column “Ask Polly” where she gently and empathically and sympathetically tells people in the nicest possible way exactly why they are full of crap and how all of their problems are their own fault. I love her voice, and figured I would like …

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Book Review: Do What You Are

Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger I got this book out of the library based on a passionate recommendation from Penelope Trunk, a blogger I read often. I thought I’d adore it, as I love her blog, think she has …

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