The Shy Man's Guide to Success With Women

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Summary: Thought provoking, entertaining, insightful and humorous.
Review: I found this book thought provoking, entertaining, insightful and humorous.

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Summary: This will not get you girls...
Review: It seems as if this book is centered around the idea that repeating daily "affirmations" (ala' Stuart Smally) to oneself will increase your self esteem and social skills to the point where you will be able to effectively court women. This book reaks of snake-oil to me. This book "might" help improve your self-esteem but it surely will not help you become successfull with women.

Rating:
Summary: This will not get you girls...
Review: It seems as if this book is centered around the idea that repeating daily "affirmations" (ala' Stuart Smally) to oneself will increase your self esteem and social skills to the point where you will be able to effectively court women. This book reaks of snake-oil to me. This book "might" help improve your self-esteem but it surely will not help you become successfull with women.

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Summary: Overly idealistic
Review: The author certainly has a lot of good ideas which really seem like they should work, but the truth is that most of the results he speaks of come naturally. A lot of the exercises and techniques Heggy maps out to overcome shyness do little more than to cloud your mind and get you thinking too much. In a social situation it's always better to just "relax", rather than overload yourself with 50 different techniques, resulting in choking.

This book makes a lot of generalizations which don't really help in the practical world of meeting women. At one point he states that the majority of women approached and asked out will say yes. Well I know ffrom personal experiance that for a woman to go on a date, she usually has to know the guy at least a little.

This book was m bible all through high school, and I can honestly say it would work on some people. However I think if anything it made me think too much and stress over the unimportant things. Some of us shy guys are doomed to fight our own battles, and it takes more than a book to overcome them.