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Summary: Powerful, direct, effective, instant!,
Review: Imagine yourself with the "upper hand" in almost any given situation. Dr. Lieberman shows you how with this excellent treatise on the psychology of influence and persuasion. Using an ecclectic collection of techniques, including a couple of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) techniques, you will truly learn how to never be taken advantage of again. Having nothing to do with manipulation, Dr. Lieberman's methods make use of skills and situations we all encounter every day in practically every interaction we have with others. If you are concerned that using these techniques is "unethical" or "cheating" in some way, you can let that concern simply dissolve away *right now* because, as Dr. Lieberman points out, you're playing games anyway, you might as well play to win! Even if you don't *use these skills*, you will instantly be able to spot them when someone else is using them to influence you. This is a book you shouldn't be without!! Some of my favorite chapters are: Chapter 1 "Get Anyone to Like You...Every Time" Chapter 2 "Get Anyone to Find You Irresistibly Attractive" Chapter 9 "How to Tell if Someone Is Trying to Manipulate You" Chapter 24 "Get Anyone to Return Your Phone Call Immediately" Chapter 31 "Stop Verbal Abuse Instantly" Chapter 37 "Get Anyone to Confide in You and Confess Anything" and most especially, Chapter 40 "Get Out of Almost Any Physical or Sexual Assault" This chapter alone could save your life or the life of a loved one, on just one reading through. The book is organized into 40 "mini-chapters" with the material presented in a friendly, readable style condensed into the tightest possible learning units. This revolutionary approach to teaching these revolutionary skills help you to instantly digest the material at the unconscious level and make them immediately available for your use. Not at all technical or clinical in approach, I'm sure you will be delightfully surprised at the simplicity and effectiveness of these methods, just as I was. Simply excellent! Get it today without a second thought. :-D
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Summary: Recommended for writers
Review: Since I just finished it, I can't say that this book has somehow made some dramatic impact in my own life. However, I will review it from a different perspective than a "practical" application manual in taking control of your life. If you are a writer, or a struggling writer, a book like this can be an invaluable resource on day-to-day human psychology and interaction. You can see situations, interactions, and even conversations develop for your characters based on Lieberman's insights and examples. This book can potentially break writer's block, if you're stuck in a scene, you know what your characters want but don't know how to show it (a man coming off too strong to a woman, someone trying to break bad news to a loved one, someone wanting to manipulate a favor out of someone else, ect.), this book offers suggestions on how your characters should act, or more importantly, how they *shouldn't* act. Since Lieberman's observations based on real life, learning and internalizing the positive and negative consequences of the behaviors described in this book can add some realism to your short stories or novels. As for the lessons themselves, I now see how in many times in my life I have done the wrong thing, and this book explains why I just made things worse, like in past relationships, in job interviews...mistakes we have all probably made. Beyond any practical applications, this is just a fascinating book for those who are interested in human interaction.
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Summary: Very clever if you ask me...
Review: Pop psychology at its best, this stuff really does work. I don't know that you can get anybody to do anything, but you sure can get sway a lot of people to do a lot of things you couldn't before! I give it 5 stars easy. Other self-help books I liked include "The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan, A Pocket Guide To What Works."
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Summary: Advanced methods for influencing people
Review: This book reminded me a lot of Dale Carnegie's famous "How to Win Friends and Influence People" except that this one went into a lot more detail, explaining how to perform the techniques suggested, and also offering some additional insights about behavior. Excellent! Well-recommended.
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Summary: Helpful, tactical and practical, though manipulative
Review: or even Machiavellian
To sum up the negative comment of other reviewers:
The book does not live up to its promising title; It's highly manipulative and its effectivness depends on the kindness of its targets; It's highly tactical that each of its 40 chapters just focuses on how to handle one specific situation; It lacks the depth of an averge book on psychology; It's a copy and paste of popular NLP techniques blah blah blah.
The above criticisms are all valid. However, I still rate it a good book for common readers who just want to work better and make life easier. Below please find my views that counter the negative comment above:-
Those who expect a 180 page book to teach "anybody" to do "anything" might just overexpect; The author admits the manipulative nature of his recommendations in page 54; It's natural for a book with 40 chapters to be relatively tactical than strategic. Otherwise, it will become sheer talk of little practical value; For fans and intellects of psychology, look elsewhere. In fact, please make sure you had completed the 18 volumes of Sigmund Freud before your complaint against others' lack of depth; If it works, it works. A patient goes to a doctor for recovery from illness, not medical knowledge with originality.
In short, a good and interesting read, something that can be put on your desk for quick reference in a variety of situations that can save you a lot of trouble.
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Summary: READING IT RIGHT NOW!
Review: IT'S FASCINATING. I CANNOT BELIEVE I FUNCTIONED IN SOCIETY FOR THIS LONG WITHOUT KNOWING THE BASIC 101'S OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. I STRONGLY SUGGEST THIS BOOK.
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Summary: Good tips that anyone can understand.
Review: This is an excellent book. The authors style is easy to follow and the tips in this book are great. It summarizes just about everyone subject in human psychology. It also provides many great examples of real world situations and gives you working advice on what to do. The title of this book(Get Anyone to Do Anything)is a bit exaggerated but not much.
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Summary: BUY IT
Review: IF EVER I BOUGHT A BOOK IN MY LIFE, THIS IS IT. DO YOU WANT MAKE YOU'RE LIFE WONDERFUL AND SIMPLE? THIS IS THE MOST PERFECT BOOK SINCE "THE BIBLE" THAT I WOULD LIKE 'EVERYONE' TO READ.
BUY IT FOR YOUR KIDS,SISTER,BROTHER,AND WHOM EVER YOU CAN AFFORD IT FOR. IT IS WORTH THE MONEY....THE DARN THING IS, YOU WANT TO UNDERLINE ALL THE WORDS.
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Summary: these psychology tips do work
Review: I've faced three situations at work where I needed to convince someone to do something or diffuse a sticky situation. In each case I sat down ahead of time with this book and worked out a strategy of what to say using various techniques. Each time it worked like a charm.
The best example was when one of my co-workers was angry at one of my staff members for taking her seat. I used the technique of suggesting a punishment for him that I knew was too harsh (a day off without pay). I had to wince inside as I said it and cross my fingers that it would work. Immediately she said, "Oh no, I'm not asking for anything like that". And thus she began to realize that what he did was not that bad.
Getting someone to return your phone call by leaving a vague message that indicates you'd like to thank them or tell them some good news has also worked for me.
These are the kind of tips in the book. The book explains why they work very well. The book is easy to read. You do have to really think and plan ahead to apply the tips, but when you do, they are very effective.
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Summary: Appalling waste of money - try common sense instead!
Review: This is my second review for this appaling waste of money self-help book - the first review has mysteriously disappeared (along with a few other critical reviews perhaps). Strange that! I'm sure I never swore or anything but I was pretty passionate about the book being lousey. Out of principle and not wanting to waste any more time on this book these are my comments in brief ... the first thing about this book is the title, which is completely misleading and promises the world but delivers very little.What ever you do, don't expect too much with this book - the author simply passes on 'tricks and tips'which are little more than common sense and some are so ludicrous and superficial that trying them in the real world is tantamount to making you a laughing stock. The problem is the superficiality and the lack of real insight into why people behave and act as they do. Even as an introduction to 'influencing others' the book falls woefully short. See other negative reviews for more information.
Try Robert Cialdini if you want to really know about influence, and if you are interested in POWER then try Robert Greene 48 Laws of Power for a starter.Enough said...
Hope this negative review and others stay on so readers can at least be given some pause for thought before buying this book. Don't say you haven't been warned!
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