one shouldn't listen to others conversations.
354820
Every time I watch this film I get so wrapped up in it I find that occasionally I awake and look around thinking that someone has caught me evesdropping on a private conversation.
4140534
Finding that many people are waking up about the prpose of religion. Suppression deny  creativity and promote fear. Not a good formula for nurtures.
4630532
This is one view. When I was poor I kept quiet and was very careful to avoid drawing attention to my circumstances. I suspect this author was raised middle class and dropped into poverty because of her own bad choices. That doesn't excuse the difficulties she lived with though. Our society simply MUST do a much better job of making sure people can pull themselves out of poverty.
3786602
This book is heavily biased toward reality.  Some people have a problem with that.  Do not listen to those people.
3587621
I wish I had not read this book.  This is a very talented writer who has crafted something that reinforces the attitude that we have no accountability for how our actions affect others.  The plot of this story: two unique individuals find each other--enjoy "best six months of their lives", by the presence of the other;  obviously make each a better person.  Then one character is selfish or doesn't see the value the other person or their own immense value.  We are suppose to accept this position?  This behavior is normalized? I wish I had not spent my money on supporting someone who would prolificate that.  The author had a tremendous opportunity to say something profoundly meaningful and she blew it.  I hope she will recognize her talents and use them to say something meaningful on this book she did not.
760138
I think people are missing the point........ it's a bio, if you don't want to hear someone talk about themselves don't read a BIO.
4237144
A lesson to be learned.
Should be watched by anyone who has ever taken the words of another as their own without crediting that person.
1061984
This is a strangely oversimplified view of human relationships based on the idea that there is a mediating principle from which one can derive rules of trust.  From my perspective, I have seen that people are totally different depending on with whom they are interacting.  This does not mean that these people put on faces or wear masks, but that they are truly dynamically different internally when they converse or have business with other individuals.  Whether or not a person is good or bad depends on the relation between the two individual people and cannot be generalized.  There is no good or bad in people, in other words, except for the relations between them.
2554701
This video speaks to all races and every family.  This video will irritate some but inform everyone who is willing to open their mind to the dangers of judging others.
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Dr. Schwartz is a consultant on the book, "Your Brain at Work" which is a very useful source if you are planning on listening to a book on brain plasticity.  Schwartz is very knowledgeable, he knows his stuff.

Given that, the information in this book is good.  It may even be great, but read this book with your eyes, do not listen to it.

If you know anything about hypnosis or NLP, you know the power of embedded commands.  This book, very unintentionally, is full of bad hypnosis.

(These are not literal examples, because I'm unwilling to back and listen for exact quotes)
"You must <do this bad thing>"
"People think I'm a bad person."
"You are a bad person"

It probably doesn't help that the narrator has a very hypnotic voice that can put you in a relaxed state.

Then imagine being in that relaxed, open state and getting raw command language from a voice that you trust.  If you are using head phones, it's a voice that is literally "in your mind."

If you didn't have issues when you started listening to the book, you will when you get done with it.

Buy a different book.
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I love the fact that someone is finally speaking out on introvert's behalf...I get really tired of all the loud-mouthed horses rears in the world that think just because someone isn't jabbering back they must not have anything to say (Or even worse those that keep telling every one to become extroverts).  Sometimes tis far more efficient to shut up and listen to the world around you than always acting like a pack of dogs seeing just who can bark loudest and longest!!! Thanks a million Mrs. Cain!!!
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I found this book to be excellent reading as it taught me that 'It is really none of my business what others say abount me', therefore do not stress over what others have to say. Many times people bully us because they are not happy in their lives. All we can do is pray for them and ask God to help you to help them.
671863
Its hard to understand what people are saying during a conversation and other people cant hear you while you are talking to them.
3931750
After almost two decades I still cannot bring myself to speak to the one person -- close friend and former Marine who was best man at my wedding after finding out that we fought back-to-back in hand combat in Vietnam. This revelation was disclosed when his companion's adolescent son related the story to the guests. Needless to say I was embarrassed but didn't want to refute this in public. What made this relationship even more untenable when his companion was puzzled when two former Marine Corps pilot neighbors suddenly stopped visiting and avoiding them.  As it turned out she learned the pilots discovered numerous inconsistencies in my friend's claim to be a MarCorp aviator.

The next nail in the wannabe column involved a clinical psychologist's Army husband who was having difficulty obtaining VA benefits. He was part of the forward recon team in Argentina. Because of his "spook" ops, he could not apply for VA benefits until President George W. was out of office. That should have been the alarm. Stranger than fiction. This wannabe's downfall came at the Marine Corps birthday ball when he told the story of having been rescued by a single Seal team member and being carried 20 clicks to safety. Pinned on his -- the wannabe's chest was a Silver Star along with other fruit salad.

"Stolen Valor," could not be truer. And I had the unfortunate chance to experience it.
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The message of this book is not only unhealthy, it's downright harmful. No man is perfect. (No woman is perfect either.)  But the partnership of marriage is profound and shouldn't be entered into simply because someone--anyone--pressures you. If Lori Gottlieb thinks women don't already feel crippling amounts of strain, or that they don't already compromise and tolerate quite enough, she's from another planet.

Gottlieb's number one priority is to sell her book and make money. Not to help women have better lives and better marriages.  If so, she wouldn't act as if her pedestrian observations are somehow insightful and revolutionary. And she certainly wouldn't act as if she's telling women anything they don't already know. Women should have realistic expectations. REALLY!? WHO KNEW!?

Take a look around. My bet is that you can easily pick out the women who got married simply because they were in a hurry to have kids. Or because they needed help paying the bills. Or because they lacked self-confidence and did, in fact, settle for Mr. Right Now. Sorry ladies, but Mr. Right Now is Tiger Woods. Make no mistake about it.

This book has caused a stir, yes. But people are calling it controversial, which it isn't. Unless that excruciating speech your mom gives you after one of your friends gets married before you is controversial. "You know, Darlene, you aren't getting any younger." Now imagine paying $18 for that speech. Hole in the head, right?

I'm stunned that people are wasting their time and money with this. Don't waste yours. If you truly need a guide, I recommend If The Buddha Dated by Charlotte Kasl. Kasl is compassionate, smart, and supportive. She is a Ph. D and a practicing therapist. Her book is empowering, not insulting.
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The people who have reviewed this book negatively either A) have never read it, or B) are uncomfortable with the truths they have discovered.  The key to understanding what Thomas Sowell means when he talks about intellectuals is that intellectuals are not simply "thinking people."  Intellectuals are people whose *end product* is simply an idea, and this idea is not subject to traditional real-world validation processes, but is subjected to the weaker form of validation known as peer review.  Why is this important?  Einstein's peers in academia might have bashed some of his scientific theories, but history proved that Einstein's theories were more than just *his* theories when the first atomic bomb went off.  Engineers' designs are put to the test every day.  An auto mechanic's repair practices are validated daily as well.  Every time an airline cuts ticket prices and more people buy tickets, theories about price elasticity are validated.

Academics who pontificate over supposed societal wrongs and how to fix them, however, are not subjected to this same type of validation.  In this sense, intellectuals operate in a dangerous world where they can be extremely wrong on a variety of matters, but since an echo chamber usually emerges from their typically like-minded peers, these wrongs are not discovered until they have already caused societal damage.  Furthermore, intellectuals have a natural set of incentives that causes them to make controversial statements, because no academic ever became famous or achieved stardom from simply agreeing with everyone else.  The fatal flaw most intellectuals make is the subtle play where they hope that since you know they are an expert in an extremely narrow field that they must be an expert as well in all kinds of adjacent fields (which they are clearly not).  Ultimately, things that improve over time tend to have a good feedback mechanism.  That's why private companies tend to perform much better than government services.  If a private company is not satisfying its target consumers, it sees that impact immediately in the form of quick feedback: loss of profit.  Government agencies, like intellectuals, do not see this kind of quick feedback mechanism, allowing them to operate in an undesirable manner for far longer than a private company would be able.

Pick this book up to learn of the dangers that insulated intellectuals can do and to understand how natural incentives drive this behavior.  This is yet another Thomas Sowell classic, and if you enjoyed his other classic works, you will enjoy this one as well.
4148064
Blaikie blatantly ignores the fact that a significant number of people in the world have allergies to food, many of them life-threatening. He suggests people should eat everything they're served even "if it kills them" which it very well might for those of us who cannot eat certain foods. This book advocates hazardous advice and should not be sold in any public venue.