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Summary: It would have been great...
Review: ...if only I really had attended a course like this when I was in school. Not only have the lessons helped me grow in confidence, I have to say it was a pleasure to read. This is the real thing, folks. Finally.
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Summary: Great Book, uplifting, useful and filled with compassion
Review: I bought this book for myself and found it immensely helpful for pulling me out of a slump. I then bought a copy for a friend who is in a prison's administration segregation unit (locked-up 23-1/2 hours a day. No human contact). He has in-turned loaned it out to other convicts who now want their own copy. Regardless of your background this book really reaches people and teaches confidence.
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Summary: I've bought three copies
Review: I bought this book for myself and found it immensely helpful for pulling me out of a slump. I then bought a copy for a friend who is in a prison's administration segregation unit (locked-up 23-1/2 hours a day. No human contact). He has in-turned loaned it out to other convicts who now want their own copy. Regardless of your background this book really reaches people and teaches confidence.
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Summary: The best motivational book I have ever read!
Review: I first bought a copy of the audiocassette version of Walter Anderson's seminar in 1999. It just happened to catch my eye in a bookstore, and the premise seemed simple. Intrigued, I planned to take it home and listen to it. Instead, I played it on the way home. Maybe I shouldn't have, because I was paying too much attention to the tape and not on driving. His voice was so moving and powerful that it made me take notice. His simple style caught me off-guard, and was the best motivator I ever could have had. Walter became a presence in my life, and I feel that my life turned around because of him. I also feel I'm a better writer because of him.I made at least two copies of the tape, and after they all warped, I bought a new original set. After it became available, I decided I wanted to get the book. After checking out a copy of my local library so many times I couldn't check it out any more, I bought a copy. I've only had it for a couple of months, but it is already dog-eared and written in. It feels like I've owned it for years. I could keep this a balanced review and say something negative, but there isn't any point. There is nothing negative I could ever say about about this book. Every word is weighted with his earnestness and motivates the reader to search within himself to find out what he desires most. As he did with me, Walter will excitedly tell you to dream big, and will gently tell you that everyone struggles, and will motivate you to take the risk of doing what it takes to live your dream. His advice was the best I've ever received. Today I am doing what I have always wanted.
And it feels great.
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Summary: Yes, this one works!
Review: I found this wonderful book by accident, searching for a book of similar title. Intrigued by the professional reviews, still I wasn't sure--so I checked it out at the library. It worked for me. I've now bought three more as gifts for family and friends and it's working for them too. The Confidence Course is a gem: Wisdom well-told.
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Summary: Great Book, uplifting, useful and filled with compassion
Review: This book will help anyone either trying to improve their own self esteem or the self esteem of others. Walter tells a personal uplifting story then gives useful steps for ones own self fulfillment. Do yourself a favor and buy 2 copies, since as soon as you read it, you'll think of someone who needs it more than you do, and you won't want to give away your copy and its too hard to find in the book stores.
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Summary: Prepare to make an F
Review: Walter Anderson is just like the much-talked-about, dreaded college professors whose classes have no real structure or surefire path to success. I'm not looking for a teacher to "hold my hand" through the course -- I'm plenty capable of learning many of the lessons myself -- but Anderson's chapters dump a myriad of anecdotes and stories onto you and expect you to somehow pull a lesson from them. The challenges at the end of the chapters are often misguided, and I've yet to have one of the revelations he says his readers will experience after performing them. If Anderson offered a course at my school, I'd avoid it like the plague, which is a shame, as the premise of this book is *very* appealing.
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Summary: Prepare to make an F
Review: Walter Anderson is just like the much-talked-about, dreaded college professors whose classes have no real structure or surefire path to success. I'm not looking for a teacher to "hold my hand" through the course -- I'm plenty capable of learning many of the lessons myself -- but Anderson's chapters dump a myriad of anecdotes and stories onto you and expect you to somehow pull a lesson from them. The challenges at the end of the chapters are often misguided, and I've yet to have one of the revelations he says his readers will experience after performing them. If Anderson offered a course at my school, I'd avoid it like the plague, which is a shame, as the premise of this book is *very* appealing.
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Summary: A smorgasbord of wisdom seasoned with humanity.
Review: Walter Anderson's book, The Confidence Course, is a smorgasbord of wisdom flavored with humility and seasoned with humanity. He doesn't talk down or at the reader, but with the reader. By baring his own neck, heart and soul; Anderson enables the reader to entrust his or her heart to the words in this kind, wise and loving book. If you allow yourself to trust in the writer's words and to suspend whatever disbelief your skepticism or cynicism uses to protect you, you will feel less alone and your spirit will be lifted. The greatest accomplishment of this book and of Walter Anderson is his becoming the loving father to the reader that Mr. Anderson never had as a child. Buy this book to help heal the wounds that hold you back in life.
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Summary: A smorgasbord of wisdom seasoned with humanity.
Review: Walter Anderson's book, The Confidence Course, is a smorgasbord of wisdom flavored with humility and seasoned with humanity. He doesn't talk down or at the reader, but with the reader. By baring his own neck, heart and soul; Anderson enables the reader to entrust his or her heart to the words in this kind, wise and loving book. If you allow yourself to trust in the writer's words and to suspend whatever disbelief your skepticism or cynicism uses to protect you, you will feel less alone and your spirit will be lifted. The greatest accomplishment of this book and of Walter Anderson is his becoming the loving father to the reader that Mr. Anderson never had as a child. Buy this book to help heal the wounds that hold you back in life.
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