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Summary: One of the great self-improvement books of all-time!
Review: As a therapist, self-improvement author, and educator I strongly recommend this wonderful book to students and clients. Dr. Dyer provides self-help advice that is not complex and very easy to apply to day-to-day situations. There are thousands of self-help books, however, I would say with no reservation that this is one of the best ones ever written. Dr. Howard Rosenthal
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Summary: Common Sense Choices
Review: As in all his other works, Wayne Dyer helps the reader find common sense within himself. Though the writing seems simple it is actually very profound. Unlike the majority of Anthony Robbins' books, Dyer doesn't use his own book for promoting seminars and that I find refreshing. Each chapter contains useful advice and the book as a whole is coordinated in such a way as to lead the reader from one important, logical sequence to the next. Al L. Smith. author of "The Winning Zone".
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Summary: Common Sense Choices
Review: As in all his other works, Wayne Dyer helps the reader find common sense within himself. Though the writing seems simple it is actually very profound. Unlike the majority of Anthony Robbins' books, Dyer doesn't use his own book for promoting seminars and that I find refreshing. Each chapter contains useful advice and the book as a whole is coordinated in such a way as to lead the reader from one important, logical sequence to the next. Al L. Smith. author of "The Winning Zone".
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read!
Review: From many of the self-help books available I think this one is one of the best. I read it 16 years ago and it changed my life for good.
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Summary: Best Self Help out there
Review: I am 24 years and have read a lot of self help and psychology books primarily due to my fascination for the subject. I first picked up this book when I was around 16 yrs old. I read it cover to cover then and put it down. It was amazing. Only later did I realize that this book is like a daily reference to living. Read a random chapter/page everyday or night and experience remarkable changes to your life. It will change the way you view the world. You will see that everything begins to fit in. In short, this book is a treasure...
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Summary: The most important book in my life
Review: I am a Chinese and I read the Chinese version of the book when I was about 16. It changed my entire point of view to the world and myself. If I had not read this book, I would not be as happy, as confident and strong as I am now. And my world would not be as big. I guess there might be other books of this kind that are as well written, but this book came into my life just the right time, the time that I was very weak at heart, so it had a great impact to mold my personality. I wish to read original version of the book later on.
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Summary: your erroneous popularizers . . .
Review: I am writing this review as this sort of book is extremely popular for people who believe they have problems. My complaint about books like this, is they rarely discuss the need for the individual to overcome many of their problems by the simple mechanism of cultivating a decent image for themselves in their community, and augment their social power in order to accomplish needed goals. If 'learning to love your body' and other approaches advocated in this book help, I say great! But only a naive and inexperienced person goes around really beleiving that it doesn't much matter what others think of them. Good or bad, what others think of you may have a heck of alot to do with cultivating personal and social power, leaving you fre to have all the high self-esteem you may want or need. Working on your social and community image and power, as methodically as possible, ought not to be excluded as part of your over-all 'esteem' program. I don't care if your a flaming hippie, or whatever... issues like public image, place, and power in the community, still must be addressed, and are best addressed consciously. This is better than throwing caution to the winds, letting 'fate take its course,' and relying enitirely on your own opinion of yourself ( tho' self-image is part of the overall picture.) In short, its no use trying to have a marvelous opinion of yourself. All the police power on your side standing up for your rights and what-not, may not be good enough to really help you, if there are those with negative opinions or actual dislike of you, who have the power to work lack, misery, or harm for you and your life. This is not paranoia. It is practicality, a practical acknowledgment of the total facts. And woe to s/he who practices Dyers' notions about going around 'expressing your anger' all the time! That can just get you into deep waters. It can get you perceived as uncontrollable, dangerous, even criminally mad. Better to let lose anger in private somehow, as one learns to control it, than risk the social ostracism and denial of necessities you need to make your life smoother. Running around saying whatever the heck you want all the time, always expressing anger - well, you need power to do this. You need areputation that allows you. Others with the power to do so, will simply laugh. They will be glad to cut you down and deny you various things, playing with you, causing you various kinds of direct and indirect harm, while you go around telling yourself how you dont need their opinions, even just a little. Yes, you are a free individual. You can rejoice in that individuality, it is your birthright, etc. You may not have to be nice, smiley, and sensitive all the time, as you know that may just get you walked all over and taken for granted. But so will neglecting issues of personal, social, and community power. I look eagerly forward to a revision of Dwyers' little popular classic, now 30 years old. And I hope it will include references to cultivating and acquiring social power and proper community image. This is not stodginess, or 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It is important to do such things so you can avoid abuses, avoid getting overlooked for things material and immaterial you may want, deserve, and need, get needs met, and have the 'high personal esteem' you may want or need for the sake of keeping body and soul together. This necessary esteem, I might add, doesn't just come from nowhere, as pleasurable as it is to pound one's chest, acknowledging one's 'goodness' to oneself. It is not wise to be heedless of the influential opinions of others who may have great significance, impression, and inluence over the course and direction of your life, in ways you might not have expected at first! There: I've done much of the work here for you, Wayne. Now revise.
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Summary: in retrospect
Review: I am writing this review several years after reading and re-reading this book several times. I can't imagine that every human being hasn't already read this book, but just in case, I strongly urge you to buy and read this book and then pass it on to someone you really care about. It was given to me by a friend and I read it cover to cover in record time. I could not put it down. After reading this book, I found that I was making, almost unconsciously, incredible changes in my thoughts and my life. I felt as if I had been "enlightened". Like I had miraciously obtained a "key" to a higher concsiousness. I actually felt sorry for those around me that had not read the book and also obtained an "answer". The writing and ideas are extremely simple, clear and most of all "usable", not just another book of psyco-babble. BUY THIS BOOK - TODAY!!
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Summary: Finding the error of your ways
Review: I bought these books on recommendation of a friend. Dr. Dyer goes into detail on how to look at your life and find the path that is destained for you. He give general descriptions of people he has helped and different antidotes. It is used mostly for someone who is having a difficult time finding their way in life. He gives many suggestions of how to bring yourself out of your shell and live a full life. Some parts of the book get too involved and he repeats himself to bring out his point of view.
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Summary: We choose the way we feel.
Review: I don't know that any one review can do justice to this book, but I will contribute mine, in order to help anyone considering buying Your Erroneous Zones. In short, this book is no less than the basis for modern psychology. If you have been to counseling, literally all the general advice you will ever receive is derived from this book. The goal of every one of us to to become self-actualized. A self-actualized person is someone who is happy and enjoys life no matter what their circumstances are. As Dyer says, happiness always comes from within. We are happy when we choose to be happy. The "erroneous zones" are negative, pointless emotions such as worry, guilt, depression, helplessness, anger, and neediness. We can choose not to feel those emotions. We can also choose to stop procrastinating. Our happiness, again, comes completely from within. There are some things that we cannot change, such as injustice, poverty, and crime, can work to solve those worldly problems without choosing to feel depressed and helpless. Your Erroneous Zones is filled to the brim with pearls of wisdom. I find myself constantly re-reading the book in order to make new discoveries. Today, for example, I pondered this statement by Dyer: "Make a decision to live five minutes at a time." When we do that, then procrastination becomes pointless. Feeling unhappy becomes pointless. Dwelling on mistakes from the past becomes pointless. Boredom becomes pointless. (es, boredom is another emotion that we choose to feel.) How do you feel right now? And why did you choose to feel that way? The bottom line is that we choose the way we want to feel...
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