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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: 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: 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: Not Worth It
Review: The book promises more than it delivers. I found it to be shallow, manipulative, and lacking examples that could be practiced every day. The book reads as though Lieberman wrote it over a couple of weekends. The classic treasure on this subject is Dale Carenegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. It is much more complete and useful than Lieberman's book.
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Summary: Looks like the auther's tactics Worked on us - the buyers!
Review: The predatory nature of this attemp at pop-psych should be a giveaway that these "tactics" would only work on a "target person" with an extremely low IQ... but you only know that AFTER you buy the book. Lines like "... become the perfect psychological warrior!" probably made every used-car sales manager go right out and buy a copy... they would have been better off buying works of several other authors sold here, like Stephen Covey, or Joseph O'Connor. I personally (thankfully) don't know anyone stupid enough to fall for the "techniques" outlined in this book. I would have spent my book-money on better authors if I'd only known.
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Summary: A pragmatic application of some psychology
Review: The strategies are practical and in some cases elegant. I have not used any of the strategies yet so can't comment personally on their effectiveness, but they sound completely plausible. I also found it useful as providing examples of how one might apply theory and psychological research to the real world. I have read some of the research he cites but never thought of it in these ways.
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Summary: Good Read but Simplistic
Review: This book is generally a good read, with some practical tips. My only critcism is the book is too simplistic. Human behaviour is very complex and in a vacuum yes many of this strategies would be useful. But in real life they may not work. There a lot factors such as culture, personal beliefs, values that effect human behaviour and to generalize to a set single theories to solve life's problem is a bit ridiculous. The book's language is a little manipulative with words like Never, any Situation, Really, Ever. I would recommend this book as a good guide on human behaviour and use it as reference not as absolute truth.
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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: This book is great because it's completely practical. There's no junk or filler. Even more the techniques work amazingly well. The book is well researched and very useful in business as well as in personl situations. I picked it up after seeing it on the NYT Business Bestseller list. Provacative title indeed. But it does deliver. Trust me, it's good stuff. I read all of these kind of books and this is a cut above the rest. It also non-manipulative and much more psychologically-based. But very easy to follow and do.
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Summary: Can be helpful to some people.
Review: This book of psychological secrets that explain how to read people, avoid being manipulated and get the upper hand in any situation, could be helpful for some people to read.
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Summary: Very Helpful Insight
Review: This book presents very helpful basic persuasion techniques that can be very effective but really does not go into very much detail about any of them which is not a bad thing. Many people, including myself, are looking for a general persuasion primer, which this book definately is. I was able to pinpoint areas of persuasion psychology I wish to further study using this book. That is not to say that this book does not give enough information to effectively use the techniques explained--it does and I highly recommend this book, as well as all of Lieberman's books, to everyone.
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